Senior Go Backend Engineer - Real-Time Payments

Bash.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market pay

Growth opportunities

Shopping perks

Time that’s yours

Job summary

Bash in Cape Town is seeking a senior backend engineer to own real-time payment, wallet, and reconciliation services. You’ll build reliable, distributed systems in Go, with strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and observability within a fast-moving team.

You’ll drive features from idea to production, collaborate across squads, and advocate for maintainable code, clear runbooks, and robust testing. Bash offers top-tier pay, growth opportunities, and shopping perks as part of a flexible,

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production backend systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and fault tolerance
• Ability to drive features from idea to production
• Comfort with writing maintainable, well-tested code
• Clear communication and collaboration across teams

Responsibilities

• Build real-time, distributed backend services
• Ensure correctness, performance, and observability
• Handle payment flows: authorisation, capture, refunds, settlement
• Perform reconciliation across providers and banks
• Contribute to the spendable balance funding and controls

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Code quality

Observability

Autonomy

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Retool

Linear

Job description

Bash in Cape Town is seeking a senior backend engineer to own real-time payment, wallet, and reconciliation services. You’ll build reliable, distributed systems in Go, with strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and observability within a fast-moving team.

You’ll drive features from idea to production, collaborate across squads, and advocate for maintainable code, clear runbooks, and robust testing. Bash offers top-tier pay, growth opportunities, and shopping perks as part of a flexible,