Staff Backend Engineer, Lemfi

• This role is ideal for someone with a strong sense of ownership, a commitment to shipping quality code, and a drive to constantly improve
• If you are passionate about building mission-critical cloud-based services, have a deep understanding of processing high volumes of customer requests, and strive for achieving perfection by simplicity, we want to hear from you!
• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development (Go Lang or Java)
• Deep knowledge of Go Lang or Java, with hands-on experience building scalable services
• Ability and willingness to enhance existing Go Lang backend services regardless of specialisation
• Experience with working with observability stack (logging, metrics,tracing)
• Expertise in building RESTful APIs following company standards
• Understanding of Domain-Driven Design and Modularization concepts
• Asynchronous processing with approaches like co-routines, messages queuing and event streaming
• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) such as evolving schemas, transaction isolation levels and writing optimal SQL queries
• Ability to package atomic changes for review as Pull Requests using Github
• Understanding caching patterns (Redis)
• Experience with Docker and other container technologies
• Proven experience creating user-friendly, responsive, and visually appealing UIs
• Knowledge of operational aspects of Amazon Web Services key services (S3, ECS, ECR, RDS etc) or a similar Cloud provider
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a detail-oriented mindset
• High sense of ownership and accountability for delivering top-quality work
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team

Desirable

• We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team
• Design, test and implement additional product features
• Prepare and present design documentation for new features being developed
• Treat pragmatic automated testing as integral part of all deliverables
• Ensure code is built with a keen focus on security and privacy best practices
• Maintain strict data consistency standards while handling financial transactions
• Write clean, maintainable, and self-documenting code
• Participate in peer code reviews to ensure quality and consistency
• Stay updated on backend design patterns to deliver a modern, cost-efficient, cloud-based architecture
• Ensure gradual rollout of new functionality using best practices like feature toggles, blue green deployments, and gradual traffic ramp-up
• Automate product metrics backed by strict SLA/SLO quality gates
• Participate in on-call incident response team rotation - “you build it you run it”
• Understanding of international financial regulations
• Making sure customer needs are integral to what you do
• Take full ownership of features and deliverables, from development to production release and beyond
• Work cross-functionally with other engineering, product, and QA teams to ensure seamless product functionality
• Mentor and direct junior developers, fostering a culture of learning, improvement and excellence