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Backend Engineer at Kippa

Website Kippa

Backend Engineer

Engineering at Kippa

  • Our values set our tone and pace! We make every day count as if it were Day One. Our collective success is driven by our individual Ownership. We communicate with care and Empathy. And we approach every task with a learner’s open mind and Humility.

  • We look for engineers who have strong coding fundamentals, are pragmatic about getting work done, focus on the customer, understand scale, are adaptable to growth and change, and are self-sufficient enough to thrive in a fast-paced environment. Our assessment process is designed to focus on these key attributes while giving you a candid view of what it’s like to work here.

  • Our interview process begins with a technical assessment, then a one-on-one interview with a key executive, followed by a teammate session which includes hands-on-keyboard technical assessments and concludes with meeting a technical leader.

  • Technical challenges make every day a growth experience and leadership opportunity for teammates at all levels. We serve increasingly high number of merchants across a wide range of literacy spectrum from well-sophisticated to those with little or no education. Our users record billions of dollars on our platform and trust us to keep these records safe as well as help them make better business decisions based on their data.

  • The engineering culture at Kippa is inclusive and people-focused. This focus is on our merchants, their stores, and our teammates. We move fast, deliver quality low-risk changes to production multiple times a day, and work with high trust and efficient collaboration.

  • Our stack includes: VueJSNuxt Firebase Flutter Nodejs, Typescript Nestjs PostgreSQL TypeORM Redis Docker Kubernetes S3 Kafka.

In this role, you will:

👉🏽 Build new features to make our product/customer experience better

👉🏽Develop internal APIs and Services

👉🏽Interpret and implement Architectures

👉🏽Automate business processes

👉🏽Participate in the functional design of new products/features

👉🏽Write/test/deploy clean and reliable code

What we expect you to bring:

👉🏽6+ years of experience building high scale infrastructure

👉🏽Production Level knowledge of Java or/and Typescript (Node.js)

👉🏽Experience with Typescript Nest.js MongoDB Postgres AWS Redis Kafka

👉🏽Excellent interpersonal skills, cross-group, and cross-culture collaboration

👉🏽Good Understanding of Design Patterns & Scalability

👉🏽Experience with Payment Services Integration & Processing

👉🏽Solid understanding of Microservices architecture

Brownie Points 🍪 :

👉🏽Experience with Containerization (Docker & Kubernetes)

👉🏽Experience with Setting up CI/CD Pipelines

👉🏽Experience with GRPC

To apply for this job please visit kippa.africa.

Backend Engineer at Kippa
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