Luopay
Senior Backend Engineer
Company
Role
Senior Backend Engineer
Location
Job type
Full-time
Found on Mokaru
1 month ago
Salary
Job description
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
- Build production-grade HTTP APIs with Golang.
- Build API integrations with fintech partners.
- Drive architectural decisions.
- Build CI/CD pipelines.
- Deploy resources and services to Google Cloud Platform.
- Apply best SRE and security practices.
- Perform rigorous testing.
- Leverage AI-driven development practices.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- 6+ years of backend development experience.
- Strong knowledge of Golang.
- Strong experience working with SQL databases.
- Experience managing infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform or other cloud providers.
- Experience working in a high-pace 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
Golang, Typescript, React, Postgres, Docker, Gitlab, GCP, Cloudflare
START DATE
Immediately.
LOCATION
Paris / Remote


