Backend Engineer at Pertinence Group

Pertinence Group is a people-first enterprise development group established with a clear mandate: to empower individuals through structured investment, enterprise creation, and innovation.

From its early focus on real estate and training, the Group has grown into a diversified ecosystem of businesses with subsidiaries operating across mainland and island Lagos, and an expanding footprint in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United Arab Emirates.

We are recognized as one of Africa's most trusted entrepreneurially driven groups, distinguished by a strong governance culture, technology-led solutions, and an unwavering commitment to people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Alimosho, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• We need a strong backend developer to own and extend our core services.
• As a Senior Backend Engineer, he/she will be the core technical owner of the services that handle every transaction, from FX conversion to settlement, where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable.

What you'll do

• Architect, build, and maintain backend services in NestJS (TypeScript) that power payments, FX, wallets, and settlement
• Design and implement robust transaction handling: webhooks, idempotency, retries, and reconciliation across multiple payment providers
• Own the integration of local and international payment rails and FX liquidity providers
• Contribute to and safeguard the money-movement logic
• Make and document key architectural decisions; set standards the rest of the team builds on
• Embed security and regulatory compliance into the design of every financial feature
• Collaborate closely with product and compliance to translate requirements into resilient systems.

What we're looking for

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor`s Degree
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant production NestJS (or strong Node.js/TypeScript) work
• Demonstrable experience building fintech or payments systems at scale
• Hands-on experience with cross-border / FX payment flows (strongly preferred)
• Deep understanding of idempotency, eventual consistency, and reconciliation in financial systems
• Strong command of PostgreSQL, including data modeling for money
• Track record of clean, testable, well-architected service design
• Experience operating in environments where data security and compliance matter.

Bonus points:

• Integrations with Stripe, Paystack, Squad, Wise, or similar providers
• Experience with regulated financial environments and audit requirements
• Scaling background systems and leading technical initiatives.

Application Closing Date
15th June, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@pertinencegroup.com using "Application – Backend Engineer"as the subject of the email.