Luno

Senior Backend Engineer


The role in a nutshell:

We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an intermediate engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.

As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.

Your mission will be:

Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem.

A little about you:

Background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.

Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery.

Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.
A continuous improvement mindset.
BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see

What stack we work on:

Kotlin, Swift & Angular
Go(lang), gRPC
Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch

Status: Open

Salary: R 70,000 to R 100,000

Experience: 5 years

Fully Remote: Yes