Senior Python Engineer (Fintech / Payments / Digital Platforms / ERP / Fashion / Assessment Platform) - Remote at KloudOpp Limited

KloudOpp Limited is a new early-stage educational technology (EdTech) and Service Provider startup based on an ambitious & exciting, yet realistic product vision.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Python Engineer (Fintech / Payments / Digital Platforms / ERP / Fashion / Assessment Platform)

Location: Remote / Nigeria-friendly
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Fintech / Payments / Digital Platforms/ ERP/ Asessment Platform
Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 6:00pm (West African Time), with 1-hour break

Role Summary
Kloudopp Limited is hiring a Senior Python Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience to design, build, and scale mission-critical platforms across:

• Payments & Switching
• Digital Banking
• Crypto & Web3
• Digital Lending
• Fintech Infrastructure / BaaS
• Personal Finance / Wealth
• FX & Remittance
• ERP & Commerce (including Fashion & Retail platforms)
• This is not an oversight or advisory role.

Responsibilities
You must be:

• Deeply hands-on
• Obsessive about clean architecture, performance, and best-practice code
• Comfortable owning production systems
• Result-driven, because your performance is tied to monthly milestones in an Agile delivery environment
• You will build and operate high-scale, secure, event-driven, cloud-native systems used in real financial workflows.

Tech Stack (You Must Be Strong In These):

• Backend: Python (3.10+), FastAPI / Django, Async workers (Celery / RQ / equivalent)
• Databases: PostgreSQL (primary), MongoDB (unstructured data)
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Azure (App Services, Functions, Event Grid, Service Bus)
• Caching: Redis
• Messaging / Events: RabbitMQ (or Kafka / Azure Service Bus / similar)
• Architecture: Serverless, Event-Driven, Microservices, Clean Architecture, API-first systems.

 What You’ll Do

• Architect and build scalable, secure backend systems for fintech-grade workloads
• Design and implement event-driven and serverless architectures on AWS & Azure
• Build and maintain high-performance APIs using FastAPI or Django
• Own database design, performance tuning, and data integrity (PostgreSQL & MongoDB)
• Implement message-driven systems using RabbitMQ and background workers
• Write clean, testable, production-grade Python code following Clean Architecture and best practices
• Enforce engineering best practices: code reviews, architecture standards, CI/CD discipline
• Collaborate in an Agile environment with clearly defined monthly delivery milestones
• Take responsibility for system reliability, scalability, performance, and security
• Mentor other engineers and raise the overall engineering bar
• Work closely with product and business to ship real business outcomes, not just features.

Requirements
What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years of professional backend engineering experience
• Deep mastery of Python in production environments
• Strong experience in fintech, payments, banking, lending, or high-scale platforms.

Proven experience with:

• PostgreSQL (schema design, performance tuning, transactions, migrations)
• MongoDB for unstructured or event data
• Redis for caching and performance
• RabbitMQ or similar message brokers
• Strong experience with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda)
• Solid understanding of Azure serverless & event-driven architectures.

Strong grasp of:

• Distributed systems
• Event-driven design
• Microservices and Clean Architecture
• Security, performance, and reliability engineering
• Writes clean, maintainable, testable, production-grade Python code
• Comfortable owning production systems and delivery outcomes
• Highly result-oriented and accountable to milestones.

Performance & Culture:

• This role is delivery-driven
• You will have monthly milestones tied to real product outcomes.

You are expected to:

• Ship
• Improve system quality
• Reduce technical risk
• Increase platform reliability and performance
• We operate in an Agile, execution-focused environment
• High autonomy, high responsibility, high impact.

Remuneration

• N500,000 – N600,000 monthly
• Based on experience, delivery strength, and technical depth.

Application Closing Date
2nd March, 2026.