Staff Software Engineer – Back-End

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🌐 South Africa, Kenya, +3 more countries – Remote

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇷🇼 Rwanda – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Open Function

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Open Function is the leading digital public good for workflow automation, offering a 100% open-source platform that is trusted by governments, NGOs, and social enterprises worldwide. It enables organizations to build powerful automated workflows to eliminate tedious tasks, automate data integration, and facilitate secure data exchange. By providing interoperability among disparate technologies, Open Function allows for scalability and improved efficiency in managing critical business processes. Known for simplifying integrations and providing a reliable digital infrastructure, Open Function supports data transformation, real-time data management, and compliance with international standards like GDPR and HIPAA.

📋 Description

• Deliver features end to end, from technical proposal to production • Build connected-system registration and governance capabilities • Build credential ownership and sharing capabilities • Build high-performance workers that execute workflows reliably at scale • Set architectural direction across OpenFn’s backend, including module boundaries, service interfaces, naming, and conventions • Establish consistent patterns that help engineers navigate and extend the codebase, including when using AI development tools • Set engineering conventions through code review, documentation, and personal contributions • Translate security findings into architectural changes and carry them through to production • Strengthen trust boundaries, isolation, and credential handling • Participate in design discussions, code review, and written proposals • Contribute significantly to backend architectural direction as an individual contributor without people-management responsibilities

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and operating backend services for customer-facing products • Experience designing backend service architectures, not only extending existing ones • Experience building backend services with Node.js • Experience operating services where reliability and scale have direct consequences for users • Ability to work independently and collaborate across time zones in a small, distributed team, using GitHub, Slack, and written proposals • Clear, professional communication in English and ability to work effectively across cultures • Elixir/Phoenix or other languages and frameworks designed for functional programming or concurrency • Developer tooling or large migration programmes • Securing production systems • Work in health, humanitarian response, government digital transformation, or the wider social impact sector • Working proficiency in Spanish or French

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation based on experience, following OpenFn’s Equal Pay for Equal Work framework • Flexible working hours • Fully remote work, with team meetups across Europe and Africa • Significant influence on the platform’s architecture and the opportunity to help shape our technical strategy • The opportunity to build open source software that helps ensure everyone worldwide can get access to great digital public services