Senior Software Engineer

1 day ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Talent Safari Full time 1,200,000 - 1,500,000 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

The MX Pod is responsible for key functions that directly impact the onboarding and configuration experience for our merchants. This includes onboarding, user management, merchant configuration, and the setup of sandbox configuration for testing and support.

  • Onboarding: Setting up new merchants for our products, connections and payment methods, ensuring a seamless start.

  • Dashboard: Our team oversees the dashboard's design and general management.

  • Merchant Login: Ensuring a secure and intuitive login experience for our Dashboard.

  • Merchant Configuration: Customising and editing merchant business and account settings.

  • User Management: Handling access controls and user roles for both merchants and peach users.

  • Transaction Listing: Providing merchants with transaction records and details for easy tracking and analysis.

  • User Logs: Keeping track of user activity for security and auditing.

  • Internal Dashboard: A tool for our Peach users to complete daily tasks

Our Tech Stack

  • Languages: Typescript, , React

  • Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, Serverless)

  • Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL

  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git

  • CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

Role expectations

  • Successfully able to build new features and enhance existing MX features

  • Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full product portfolio

  • Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend Effective troubleshooting and debugging of issues

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

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

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

  • Strong experience with NodeJS, Typescript and React

  • AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)

  • Database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

  • Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features

  • Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards

  • 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 (+-3 hours of SAST) while staying connected to a world-class team

  • Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market-related salaries, owning a 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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