Senior Backend Engineer at Carbon Nigeria

Carbon is a pan-African digital bank with a mission to provide friction-free finance to its customers. Carbon promises to play a fundamental role in its customers’ lives wherever they are, with flexible solutions. We pride ourselves on our efficiency and with just $10mm of equity raised in 2015, we have disbursed over $100m in loans and earned more than $30mm in revenue over the last 2 years. Carbon has operations in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria, supported by a talented team spread between Lagos, Nairobi, London, Argentina, and Palo Alto so we operate with a remote-first mindset. 

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Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

About The Role

• As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining scalable, secure, and resilient systems that power our platform. 
• You'll collaborate with a cross-functional team to deliver impactful solutions and ensure seamless integrations between services. 
• Our stack leverages Java, Node.js, and PHP, with a strong focus on AWS, CICD, Microservices and Event-driven architecture.
• You'll join a team dedicated to building scalable infrastructure, ensuring system reliability, and maintaining top-notch security standards. 
• We are heavily invested in modern engineering practices and are looking for someone passionate about driving excellence in backend development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend systems using Java, Node.js, and PHP.
• Architect and implement microservices that align with our platform's scalability and performance goals.
• Leverage AWS services (e.g., ECS, Lambda, RDS) to deploy and manage cloud-native applications.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and ensure delivery of high-quality code.
• Collaborate with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless end-to-end solutions.
• Implement best practices for API design, particularly RESTful services
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend services to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Mentor junior engineers, participate in technical discussions, and contribute to the team's continuous improvement.
• Write clear, maintainable, and testable code while following modern development practices.

Requirements

• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Node.js, and PHP with a strong understanding of backend development best practices.
• Proven experience designing and implementing microservices architectures and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, CloudFront, and API Gateway).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment practices.
• Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.
• Proficiency in building scalable, maintainable, and secure RESTful APIs.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Understanding of networking concepts, including CDNs, HTTP, and TCP/IP.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance issues.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to mentor team members and contribute to technical discussions

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with TypeScript for writing modern JavaScript applications.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, or other message brokers for event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to financial services platforms or fintech environments is a plus.

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