Senior Backend Engineer

Technology

Permanent

Hybrid

Senior

Senior Backend Engineer

Cape Town CBD

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help design, build and operate the payment platforms at the heart of Flash. You'll work in a small, autonomous team shipping services that thousands of traders rely on daily.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help design, build and operate the payment platforms at the heart of Flash. You'll work in a small, autonomous team shipping services that thousands of traders rely on daily.

What you'll do

  • Design, build and maintain reliable, high-throughput payment services.

  • Own services end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring.

  • Collaborate with product and platform teams to ship customer value.

  • Mentor engineers and raise the bar on code quality and reliability.

What you'll bring

  • 5+ years building backend services in a production environment.

  • Strong with a JVM language, Go, or similar; solid SQL and API design.

  • Experience with distributed systems, queues and observability.

  • A pragmatic approach to testing, reliability and security.

Nice to have

  • Payments, fintech or high-compliance domain experience.

  • Exposure to event-driven architectures and cloud infrastructure.

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Department

Technology

Location

Cape Town CBD

Work type

Permanent

Hybrid

Experience

Senior

Positions

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Careers

Ready to join the herd?

If your work can make a real difference and you like the sound of people who genuinely have each other's backs we'd love to hear from you.

Careers

Ready to join the herd?

If your work can make a real difference and you like the sound of people who genuinely have each other's backs we'd love to hear from you.