Senior Backend Engineer – Payment Services
Flash · Cape Town CBD
Job description
About the role
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. The position is based in Cape Town CBD and follows a hybrid work model.
Key responsibilities
- 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.
Required profile
- 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.
Required skills
- Java / Kotlin (JVM language)
- Go
- SQL
- API design
- Distributed systems
- Message queues
- Observability
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Cape Town CBD