Backend Engineer

Company Details
Name:SasaPay
Industry: Banking
Description: SasaPay is a mobile money e-wallet for individuals and businesses that offers seamless and secure financial solutions at the most affordable cost.
Job Details
Job Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: On-site
Qualification: Diploma
Job Experience: Mandatory
Job Location: Nairobi County, Kenya
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Salary: Undisclosed
Other Pay: Benefits
Job Category: Engineering
Job Description
  • You will work within a cross-functional environment to build secure, scalable, and user-centric solutions that power our core product offerings.

Key Responsibilities:

  • System Architecture: Design and maintain scalable server-side logic and high-concurrency architectures.
  • API Design: Build and optimize secure RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs for web and mobile integrations.
  • Performance Engineering: Implement caching strategies (e.g., Redis) and optimize database queries to ensure low-latency responses.
  • State Management: Develop complex workflows, such as USSD session handling and asynchronous task processing.
  • Code Quality: Write clean, testable, and maintainable code while enforcing standards through rigorous code reviews.
  • Database Management: Architect relational schema designs and manage data migrations using ORMs and raw SQL where necessary.
  • Collaboration: Partner with Frontend and Product teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in backend development using high-level languages (Python, Go, or Ruby).
  • Technical Depth: Strong proficiency in a major web framework and a deep understanding of MVC/MVT patterns.
  • Data Modeling: Expert knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL) and performance tuning.
  • API Ecosystems: Proven track record of building and documenting production-grade APIs.
  • Testing & CI/CD: Experience with automated testing frameworks and version control (Git).

Education: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent industry experience.

Send your resume and a brief cover letter highlighting your experience with scalable backend systems by 12th March 2026.

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