Backend Engineer

Klasha is a technology company that builds cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers and international businesses wanting to sell into Africa. Our mission is to make consumer goods and services online more accessible to customers across Africa. We’ve built the KlashaCheckout which allows African consumers to transact online cross-border in local African currencies alongside an entire toolkit of software products including; KlashaWire, KlashaCargo, Payment Links and the Klasha App.

Our vision is for African consumers to have the same frictionless online access to the goods they want, regardless of their geographic location by transacting using African currencies and money methods.

Klasha is currently live in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Kenya and Zambia. Klasha is backed by leading venture investors including; Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Seedcamp (investors in Revolut), Techstars (investors in Remitly) and Plug and Play (investors in Paypal, Honey and Dropbox).

About the backend engineer role
Klasha is looking for an analytical, results-driven, fast-moving Backend Engineer to join our team and help to build an exciting payments and logistics startup in Africa.

The Backend Engineer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to build our product, write clean code, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users. You should have excellent communication, computer, and project management skills.

To succeed as a Backend Engineer you should be focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating a better end-user experience. You should be knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated.

We’re looking for mid-level Engineers preferably in Lagos, Nigeria.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the Frontend Engineers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience
• Developing ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Be involved and participate in the overall application lifecycle
• Define and communicate technical and design requirements
• Provide training, help, and support to other team members
• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future
• Build and scale our product with input from other team members
• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve applications
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and system administrators

Requirements

• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as an engineer
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement
• Excellent project and time management skills
• Strong problem solving, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently or with a group
• Ability to move fast and adapt as the business requires
• Strong knowledge of the African payments and logistics ecosystem will be an advantage

Key Competencies

For successful performance in this role, the candidate must demonstrate:

• Knowledge of backend programming languages
• Knowledge of popular frameworks
• Data structures and algorithms
• Familiarity with Servers
• Knowledge of APIs
• Problem solving
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

Our people are the heart of the business, so we prioritize welfare and offer a wide range of competitive benefits including but not limited to:

• All the latest technology you need to do your role
• Private health insurance
• Calm membership
• Free lunch in the office
• Budget for French language classes
• One-time home office set-up allowance
• Hybrid; remote + office hours and flexible working conditions
• Access to Klasha Sessions development training courses
• Diesel and fuel allowance for remote working
• Work-from-anywhere weeks; Work from anywhere for three weeks in a year
• Paid birthday day off
• Team building events
• Bank holidays swap
• Access to mental health wellness services
• Paid parental leave