Location: Kenya (Remote)

Company Description:

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. We represent brands that disrupted an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by taking international money transfers online. Our brands currently send from 50 to 130 countries, operate in more than 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide, and employ over 1,600 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents.

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Java/Kotlin) to join our newly built team to help build a new Back Office platform which will be used by our multi-brand operations team supporting customers who are sending money transfers from 50 countries into 150+ markets worldwide. The Back Office solution will operate in several domains and will integrate them together under one UI channel. You will be working with our modern stack – Java 8, React 18, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Microservices – and modern approaches – CI/CD, Agile – to get the job done. Reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager, you will write great code and help shape what we build.

Responsibilities:

• Write great code. We understand code is read more than it’s written, better off tested and maintainability is a must.
• Help shape what we build. You’ll be working closely with product owners, designers and other engineers to design and refine our work.
• Design and influence technology evolution.
• Own delivery. You’ll own work beyond just a pull request. You’ll care about bugs, scalability, uptime and other non-functional requirements.
• Growing together. You’ll review others’ work and happily seek feedback on yours to ensure we build a better codebase and sharpen each other’s skills.
• Share your knowledge and points of view.

Requirements:

• Strong experience of building APIs and services.
• Extensive experience in Java and Kotlin
• Experience working with Microservices
• Experience working with REST, gRPC and GraphQL APIs (consumer and provider)
• Experience with unit and integration tests
• Knowledge of AWS native services
• CI/CD and IaaC tooling
• Happy in the Clouds. Our Cloud Native platform is hosted in AWS.
• Bias for action. You see a problem, you fix a problem. You get buy-in for your solutions and keep tickets moving.

Qualifications:

• Full-time employment
• Mid-Senior level
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or a related field

Zepz is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to our career page at http://ZepzPay.com. We look forward to hearing from you!