Senior Backend Engineer

4w1 month ago

Kuda Technologies Ltd

Lagos, NG · Full-time

About this role

Kuda is a fintech movement on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable, and rewarding for every African. Backed by over $100 million from world-class investors, we build a smarter alternative to traditional banking through seamless money transfers, business banking, and instant credit.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our distributed systems. You will sit at the intersection of infrastructure, architecture, and technical strategy, shaping how every squad ships software.

Day-to-day, you will build shared platform services, internal SDKs, and developer tooling that multiply squad output. You will lead event-driven infrastructure, manage Kafka clusters end-to-end, and drive Redis patterns for low-latency financial workloads.

You will partner with engineering leadership, product, and finance to identify and prioritise platform investments with clear business outcomes. Your work will embed compliance boundaries and audit trails from day one, and you will mentor mid and senior engineers through architecture reviews and pairing.

If you are driven by purpose and excited to help redefine the future of finance in Africa, Kuda offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact while growing alongside a team that shares the love.

Requirements

8+ years in software engineering with at least 4 years in a platform, SRE, or infrastructure-focused role
Deep Kafka experience: partition strategy, consumer group design, exactly-once semantics, and failure recovery in production
Redis at scale: cluster mode, pub/sub, eviction policies, and distributed lock patterns
Strong proficiency in .NET (C#) and/or Python within high-throughput microservices architectures
Experience processing high-volume, low-latency financial transactions with compliance requirements
DORA fluency: used it to drive real engineering improvements and presented results to leadership
A portfolio of internal platforms, SDKs, or shared libraries that other teams adopted and continued to use
Fintech, payments, or regulated financial services background with understanding of compliance boundaries for infrastructure

Responsibilities

Build shared platform services, internal SDKs, and developer tooling that other teams adopt
Partner with engineering leadership, product, and finance to scope and prioritise platform investments with clear business outcomes
Own Kafka clusters end-to-end: topic design, partition strategy, consumer lag management, schema evolution, and failure recovery at scale
Lead Redis patterns across the org: cluster mode, pub/sub, distributed locks, eviction policies, and scripting for low-latency financial workloads
Drive DORA metrics practice — deploy frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR — turning data into quarterly engineering decisions
Define and enforce observability, alerting, service mesh, and on-call standards across all squads
Lead build vs. buy decisions for open-source tooling versus custom builds
Embed audit trails, data residency, and PCI/SOC-aware patterns into platform design from day one

Benefits

Be part of a mission-driven fintech backed by over $100 million from world-class investors
Impact the financial future of every African by building accessible, affordable banking solutions
Work in a collaborative culture that shares the love and breaks boundaries to challenge what’s possible
Opportunity to mentor and grow engineers through architecture reviews and pairing