Senior Backend Engineer

 Posted an hour ago
  
 France
  
⭐ 5-10 years experience
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AI Summary

You will drive architectural decisions and build production-grade APIs using Golang to support a high-scale payment infrastructure. Additionally, you will manage API integrations, apply DevOps practices, and leverage AI-driven development to maintain financial systems.

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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