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cross-border payments · African fintech

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote · ParisPosted 3 months ago
Software engineeringSeniorFull Time
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About LUO

Luo is one of the fastest-growing FX and cross-border payments companies in Africa. We help African businesses pay their international suppliers faster, more transparently, and more competitively than traditional solutions.

After becoming a leading player in a few markets in record time, we are looking to grow our engineering team and keep building the financial infrastructure for FX and cross-border payments in Africa.

Role Overview

You will join a small team of experienced engineers and contribute to a diverse range of customer-facing products, internal tools and financial systems. Your solutions will help grow and run a payment infrastructure that processes millions of euros of transactions per day.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Drive architectural decisions.

  • Build production-grade APIs with Golang.

  • Build API integrations with fintech partners.

  • Apply best DevOps and SRE practices

  • Perform rigorous testing.

  • Leverage AI-driven development practices.

  • Be in touch with stakeholders, founders and business realities.

What WE ARE Looking FOR

  • 6+ years of backend development experience.

  • Strong experience working with SQL databases.

  • Experience making architectural decisions and navigating trade-offs.

  • Experience managing infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform or any other major cloud provider.

  • Experience working within a high-pace scale-up team.

  • Proficient with LLM-driven development.

  • SYSTEMS BUILT AT LUO

  • Payment platform for businesses in Africa.

  • Internal tools for payment operators, treasury analysts and FX traders.

  • Use of AI to OCR and approve invoices.

  • KYC onboarding flows.

  • Anti-Money Laundering and Transaction Monitoring systems.

  • Core Banking System and Ledger System.

  • Payout automations with banking partners.

  • TECH STACK

  • When hiring, we favor engineering skills over any particular stack.

  • We also prefer to use the right tool at the right place rather than fall in love with any specific technology.

  • For reference, this is what we use the most as of today:

  • Golang, Typescript, React, Postgres, Docker, Gitlab, GCP, Cloudflare

  • START DATE

  • Immediately.

  • LOCATION

  • Paris / Remote

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