Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Kashia Limited · Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana

Verified Full Time Remote

Job Description

Our client is a fintech company scaling its transaction infrastructure and needs a senior backend engineer who has shipped production systems that handle real money. You'll own services end to end — design, build, deploy, and keep them running.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

Design and build backend services in Go, backed by PostgreSQL

Own API design and documentation for services consumed by web and mobile clients

Improve reliability, observability, and performance of existing systems

Review code and mentor mid-level engineers on the team

Work with product and design to scope and sequence delivery

Requirements

What we're looking for

5+ years of backend engineering experience, at least 2 of them in Go

Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills

Experience running services in production on AWS or similar

Comfortable with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code basics

Clear written communication — this is a fully remote, async-friendly team

Nice to have

Payments, banking, or ledger system experience

Exposure to event-driven architecture or message queues

Open-source contributions

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