Senior Software Engineer

1 day ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Talent Safari Full time 120,000 - 240,000 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 Commerce team we manage the end user experience for a customer to make a payment with Peach Payments, including the way in which merchants integrate with Peach Payments and configure their tailored checkout experience. Our team's portfolio consists primarily of products and services relating to enabling checkout in different means, such as via an embedded checkout on the merchant's website, redirecting to a hosted checkout page on our domain,serving once off customised payment link, or a multi-use page that customers can pay through. This team maintains our existing products and services, and builds out new products and features to meet our merchants needs and new business opportunities.

Our Tech Stack

  • Languages: Python and TypeScript

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

  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

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

  • CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

  • Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

Role expectations

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

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

  • Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend

  • Effective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issues

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

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

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

  • Strong experience with Python and Typescript

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

  • Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)

  • Bonus - Experience with Payments

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 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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