Responsibilities

As a backend engineer, you will together with our Technology team be responsible for:

1. Developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure that powers the Koa apps

2. Developing and maintaining the Koa API

3. Proposing and implementing solutions that ensure the platform as a whole is secure, reliable, and available

4. Liaise with both Product Managers and other stake holders to ensure features are implemented following a shared vision and in a timely fashion.

Requirements

Our team is looking for a candidate with the following qualifications:

- Minimum 2 years of experience with Go or any other backend language. Go is the main language of choice on the backend and we appreciate if you have previous experience with it, but we're happy to consider people who are motivated to learn it.

- Working knowledge of Postgres and SQL. Any knowledge in non-structured databases is also a plus.

- Working knowledge of REST and RPC API design.

- You have experience with relational databases and the know-how to effectively model entities and their relationships.

- You write tests and ensure critical features are always working as expected.

- You write it, you ship it. We're looking for someone who takes ownership of the code from architecture to deployment. We have a dev-ops mindset and so do you. Any experience with AWS, Heroku, Docker, and the like is welcome.

- You care about code. Coding for you is more than just delivering a feature, and you can strike a balance between speed and future maintainability.

- You care about the security implications of your choices. As a financial services platform, security is an ongoing effort and we always strive to make our platform safer every day.

- You have a scalability mindset. Be it scaling the infrastructure, the team, or our codebase, you are willing to take on the challenges of a company that is growing very fast.

- Be emotionally intelligent, humble, and excited to work within a team with a diverse set of experiences, backgrounds, and skills

- You have a product mindset. We are building Koa from the ground up, and you will take part in shaping the product on a day-to-day basis.

- You enjoy sharing your knowledge with others, whether it’s through mentorship, pair programming, or whiteboard design sessions.

- You have very good English skills and your communication is clear and timely.

- You can talk about complex aspects of a system to non-technical people.

Interested Applicants should use this link to apply directly ==> APPLY HERE

GO Engineer