Backend Software Engineer [Senior] [Remote - EMEA]
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You can apply from Nigeria. The listing names Nigeria directly.
- Where it can be done from
- 12 countries, including NigeriaPosting says: “Remote - 22 countries”
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Nigeria, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, South Africa
- Working hours in Lagos
- No hours requirement stated
- Pay
- Not posted
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About MoneyHash
MoneyHash is building the future of API-based payment infrastructure. Our easy-install APIs consolidate the revenue cycle across geographies, functions, and use cases. We're saving our clients time and money, boosting product performance, unlocking new business opportunities, and reducing tech debt.
We're one of the fastest-growing payment infrastructure companies in emerging markets, and we know that building the right team is crucial to realizing our potential. At MoneyHash, we champion human empathy as well as work excellence. Join us and let's explore this journey together!
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and implement highly secure, fault-tolerant APIs and distributed systems architecture
- Collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment to rapidly iterate and prototype digital products
- Write clean, well-organized, and fully documented code
- Make strategic, proactive decisions on maintaining and upgrading projects
- Work with limited oversight on iterating existing codebases
- Working in close collaboration with infrastructure and frontend teams
- Taking ownership of key technology decisions, building for scale and high performance
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployment and integration processes
- Conducting code reviews and continuously looking at ways of improving our ways of working
- Develop deep payments expertise, and always looking for ways to optimize our merchant developer experience
- Create detailed internal documentation for the projects you work on
- Work with and lead a small group of talented engineers to create reliable and highly secure products
- Take full accountability for project delivery and system performance in a fast-paced environment
You’ll Be Great for This Role If You
- A high degree of empathy and learning capacity
- Senior experience building high-performance distributed systems and scalable architectures
- Strong command of technologies such as, but not limited to, Django, Django Rest Framework, Postgres, Redis
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline management and deployment automation
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools like ArgoCD for deployment management
- Experience in using modern development practices such as DDD, BDD, and TDD would be highly advantageous
- Passion for beautiful and well-tested code
- In-depth understanding of the entire development process (design, development, and deployment)
- Experience working in product companies, preferably in fintech or payment infrastructure
- Experience working in a small team, fast-paced startup environment
- Highly motivated self-starter who values autonomy and getting things done
- Strong accountability mindset with ability to own end-to-end delivery
- Payment infrastructure experience is a significant plus
Your First 90 Days
Your first 90 days are designed to get you from learning our systems to making meaningful contributions. You’ll start with structured sessions covering our platform, payment flows, architecture, and engineering practices, while getting hands-on with our codebase and development environment from day one.
You’ll work closely with your teammates to understand how our backend services fit together, contribute to real production work early on, and take on increasingly complex technical challenges as you build context.
By the end of your first 90 days, you’ll have a strong understanding of our systems, be confidently contributing to the codebase, and take ownership of a meaningful area of our backend — with the support of the team along the way.
How We Work at MoneyHash
Beyond your functional responsibilities, everyone at MoneyHash plays a part in shaping our culture and values:
- Respect. We’re a global team and value diversity, empathy, and honest dialogue.
- Humility. We give and receive feedback with openness, leaving egos at the door.
- Flexibility. We adapt quickly, learn constantly, and step up where needed.
- Willingness to Learn. We embrace growth, celebrate iteration, and treat every mistake as a step forward.
Where we work: Remote-first across EMEA time zones, with an annual in-person retreat to bring the team together.
Compensation Package
Competitive salary - stock options - health insurance - professional development stipend - wellness stipend - tech allowance - equipment financing program - annual in-person retreat - team engagement initiatives
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