Senior Full-Stack Engineer: Build Scalable Fintech for Africa

talentsafari; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Paystack is seeking a senior full-stack engineer in Cape Town to deliver robust back-end and front-end applications, handling large data sets for top brands. You will work with a team of talented engineers to design scalable systems, implement integrations, and ensure reliability in a financial data environment.

You will help advance our product vision, tackle complex technical challenges, and collaborate across teams to support merchants and customers in a remote-capable environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong SQL database experience.
• Proficient in writing unit and integration tests.
• Excellent communication in remote teams.
• Taking ownership of the work assigned to you.
• Passion for building products to help African businesses.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement robust solutions for the platform with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Drive product innovation and deliver on the product vision.
• Tackle technical challenges to improve performance and reliability.
• Collaborate on refining the platform architecture and integrations.
• Review code, specifications, and ensure thorough testing.
• Support merchants and customers by collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

SQL databases

Unit testing

Ownership

Remote collaboration

Tools

Node.js

Express.js

Nest.js

React

Angular

Vue.js

Redis

MySQL

MongoDB

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Paystack is seeking a senior full-stack engineer in Cape Town to deliver robust back-end and front-end applications, handling large data sets for top brands. You will work with a team of talented engineers to design scalable systems, implement integrations, and ensure reliability in a financial data environment.

You will help advance our product vision, tackle complex technical challenges, and collaborate across teams to support merchants and customers in a remote-capable environment.