Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimising scalable backend systems that power Aspora's fintech platform. You will be an early shaper of the design and architecture of the core product and platform, and work closely with the founding team to deliver 10x value to our users. As an early-stage startup, we pride ourselves on our ability to roll up our sleeves and build from scratch. We will be shipping code frequently and learning as we go while satisfying all critical security, performance, and uptime requirements for our clients. We all love to build, scale, and grow: Our team has experience building products, scaling teams, and optimising for growth while working with ambitious engineers.

If you're passionate about building products that make a complex problem easy, this job is for you. You'll have the opportunity to shape both the product and the engineering culture. You should be ready to move fast, embrace uncertainty, and wear different hats.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable backend systems that power Aspora's fintech products.
• Hands-on Coding: Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, ensuring high performance and security.
• Optimise for Scalebuild resilient, fault-tolerant systems that handle millions of transactions.
• Collaborate closely with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless experiences.
• Ensure High Availability, implement robust API architectures, distributed systems, and database optimisations.
• Improve Performance and Reliability: monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimise backend processes.
• Prioritise Business Needs: Align engineering efforts with business priorities, ensuring rapid iteration and execution.
• Own System Design, architect backend services that are modular, extensible, and scalable.

Requirements:

• 6-10 years in backend development, preferably in a product-based startup or fintech company.
• Strong ability to design modular, scalable, and high-performing backend systems.
• Ability to write efficient, high-performance code that scales.
• Ability to prioritise product and business needs while making tech decisions.
• Someone who thrives in early-stage environments, enjoys building things from scratch, and takes high ownership.
• Strong experience in building RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.

Good to Have:

• You are excited by what we're building at Aspora.
• You thrive in environments that afford you high levels of responsibility and autonomy.
• You hold yourself and those you work with to high standards.
• You are driven to fulfil your potential and grow as an engineer.
• You take the initiative to learn new skills required to complete tasks.
• You behave like an owner, taking total responsibility for your work and considering the bigger picture.
• You are results-oriented and avoid unnecessary tasks.
• You have strong opinions, weakly held, and the humility to change your mind when presented with new evidence.

Skills

API, REST, RESTful, backend, microservices