Senior Software Engineer - Backend [Payments Integration]

Peach Payments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Cape Town is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Payment Integrations team. The role involves building and improving payment integrations while ensuring secure and scalable processing. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Python, AWS, and databases, contributing to innovative solutions for digital payments across Africa.

Benefits

Generous leave allocation

Market-related salaries

VSOP ownership

Flexible hybrid work environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in cloud-based backend engineering.
• Strong experience with Python and AWS.
• Database experience with MySQL and MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and integrate payment requirements.
• Troubleshoot and propose solutions for payment integration issues.

Skills

Cloud-based backend engineering

Python

AWS

Database management

Payment Integrations

Job description

Senior Software Engineer [Payment Integrations Pod]

About Peach Payments

Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

We have a hybrid working environment

We offer a hybrid work environment, allowing for a combination of remote and in-office work. Whilst there is currently no in-office requirement for this team, this may change periodically, as determined by your manager or the organisation

Mission: Why This Role Exists

In the Payment Integrations team we manage the connection between alternative payment methods and the Peach Payment ecosystem. We build integrations for the bigger payment methods ourselves and support smaller partners in integration into our APIs. We are always looking for ways to automate and improve our system, while we extend our product offering and allow for more ways for customers to pay across Africa.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: Python
• Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless)
• Databases: MongoDB, MySQL
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress
• CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines
• Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry
  
  

Role expectations

Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations

• Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.

Effective Troubleshooting and Debugging of Payment Integration issues

Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

• 6+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
• Strong experience with Python
• AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)
• Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)
• Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integrations.
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
  

Collaboration & Communication:

• Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.

Why Join Peach Payments?

• Impact: We unlock seamless payment experiences, by empowering African businesses to effortlessly accept digital payments anywhere.
• Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa.
• Culture: Join a high-performance and empathetic culture, valuing diversity, respect for people, commitment to customers and continuous learning.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working - work from anywhere, while staying connected to a world-class team
• Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa!

At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.