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We partner with mobile carriers, retailers, and financiers across 30+ countries, powering device financing solutions that drive economic inclusion, profitability, and growth.\nWe pride ourselves on living by the Trustonic culture code, a blueprint for our journey that recognises that great working environments don’t guarantee success, but bad ones almost always ensure failure.\nWorking here, you’ll find a company that celebrates its diversity and is looking to do the right thing: for each other, the community and the planet. We believe in equal opportunities and take to heart the old African proverb ’If you only want to go fast, go alone. 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Working closely with Product, QA, DevOps and fellow engineers, you'll help shape the technical direction of our backend services while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.\nIn this role, you'll deliver scalable, secure and resilient cloud-native solutions that enable the rapid development of new platform capabilities. 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