Backend Engineer - Stablecoin at Kredete Limited

Kredete is a financial technology platform designed to help African immigrants build credit and send money instantly to over 30+ African countries. Using stablecoins and modern payment systems, we make it easy and affordable for businesses to move money across borders. Our mission is to provide accessible, secure, and low-cost financial solutions that improve cash flow and support financial growth for individuals and businesses.  With Kredete, we're connecting people and communities to better financial opportunities globally.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer - Stablecoin

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• We are looking for a talented and high impact Backend Engineer to drive our growth, he/she will be responsible for the architecture and building of a scalable and reliable system, guiding other engineers through the complexities of blockchain integration and global payment infrastructure.

Responsibilities
What You’ll Do:

• Build internal ledgering systems that track balances across multiple chains and token types
• Integrate stablecoin infrastructure into Kredete’s existing payment infrastructures, enabling seamless conversion between any supported currency and stablecoins
• Lead and grow a focused, high-impact engineering team building stablecoin infrastructure from the ground up.
• Design and implement secure systems for key management, transaction signing, gas fee management, and blockchain integration
• Own services that manage the full lifecycle of stablecoin transactions mint, burn, transfer, reconciliation
• Work with engineers to write, review, and ship production code
• Collaborate with product and compliance to deliver reliable and auditable services

Requirements
Who You Are:

• Experienced engineer with 5+ with deep expertise in object-oriented design and production-grade software development, including at least one strongly typed language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, C#, C++, Rust,Python)
• A collaborative, empathetic and hands-on leader. An astute communicator, working well with product, compliance and all non-technical teams.
• Proven experience building and integrating blockchain infrastructure (wallets, transaction flows, key management, etc.) into larger financial systems
• Experienced in integrating new systems into legacy or distributed environments without introducing instability or regressions.
• Strong grasp of secure system design, particularly around private key handling, signing, encryption, and operational controls
• You mentor engineers through regular code reviews and technical guidance, and encourage sharing practical knowledge across the team
• Able to quickly pick up unfamiliar tools or frameworks when needed and adjust to changing technical priorities.
• Nice To Have: detailed experience in FX payments, Core banking, open banking or financial infrastructure.

What We Offer

• Rewarding compensation
• Team bonuses and office-based perks
• Premium HMO Plan
• Professional development and an opportunity to work with a team that is changing the financial future of Africa and immigrants globally.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.