Senior Software Engineer

7 days ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Talent Safari Full time 2,000,000 - 2,500,000 per year
About Peach Payments

Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

We have a hybrid working environment

We offer a hybrid work environment, allowing for a combination of remote and in-office work. Whilst there is currently no in-office requirement for this team, this may change periodically, as determined by your manager or the organisation.

Mission: Why This Role Exists

In the Payment Integrations team we manage the connection between alternative payment methods and the Peach Payment ecosystem. We build integrations for the bigger payment methods ourselves and support smaller partners in integration into our APIs. We are always looking for ways to automate and improve our system, while we extend our product offering and allow for more ways for customers to pay across Africa.

Our Tech Stack

  • Languages: Python

  • Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless)

  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL

  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress

  • CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

  • Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry

Role expectations

Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations

  • Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations

  • Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing

  • Effective Troubleshooting and Debugging of Payment Integration issues

  • Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis.

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

  • 6+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering

  • Strong experience with Python

  • AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)

  • Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)

  • Bonus - Experience with Payment Integrations

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

  • Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integration

  • Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment

Collaboration & Communication:

  • Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English

  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners

Why Join Peach Payments?

  • Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions

  • Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa

  • Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success

  • Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere while staying connected to a world-class team

  • Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa

At Peach Payments, we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.

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