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Senior Backend Engineer – Markets

Tala Kenya

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Job Description

The Senior Backend Engineer – Markets builds and extends Tala’s backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and fast growing user base. As a technologist and a leader, the Senior Backend Engineer pushes the team towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault tolerant, and performant microservices platform. The Senior Backend Engineer – Markets follows and improves upon Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives. This is a technical leadership role within Tala’s technical track. You will report to the Backend Engineering Manager and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tala teams across the globe.

Responsibilities

    • Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
    • Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
    • Collaborate and support with cross functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
    • Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solving problems using the most appropriate technology
    • Contribute to complete migration of legacy codebase to microservices architecture
    • Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules
    • Advance monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times
    • Technically lead and mentor a team of Backend Engineers to build/extend complex modules

Requirements

    • 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
    • 4+ years coding in one or more of the following languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin
    • Developed and launched large scale consumer applications with the backend on Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) using microservices architecture paradigm
    • Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use
    • Expert proficiency in Agile development process
    • Excellent ability to prioritize and communicate in a fast-paced environment
    • Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)
    • Strong non-relational database experience (Cassandra, Redshift, DynamoDB, HDFS)
    • BS degree in Computer Science or related fields is a plus
    • Demonstrated ability to interview candidates and evaluate technical skills

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