Senior Backend Engineer

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🕒 May 27

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Tala

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2011

💳 Fintech

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

👥 B2C

Fintech • Artificial Intelligence • B2C

Tala is a fintech company that aims to break down financial barriers for individuals across Kenya, Mexico, the Philippines, and India through its innovative money app. The company provides a suite of financial services, including credit, payments, savings, and transfers, to empower their customers. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, Tala offers personalized financial experiences and creates digital financial identities for users who have been underserved by traditional finance institutions. With a focus on real-time money management, Tala's app simplifies access to instant credit and other financial services for millions, enhancing users' economic power and quality of life.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain robust backend services, APIs, and data integration layers that power key product features. • Review design documents, perform code reviews, and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams. • Write clean, efficient, and easily maintainable code, strictly adhering to established coding standards and best practices. • Enhance overall code quality, performance, and security by participating in thorough code reviews. • Design and optimize database schemas and queries to guarantee high performance and system reliability. • Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules. • Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues quickly and effectively across both development and production environments. • Advance monitoring and alerting capabilities of backend modules to allow proactive improvements to availability and response times.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using Java, Kotlin, and/or Scala. This includes exposure to a web framework like Spring. • Developed and launched large scale consumer applications with the backend on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure) using microservices architecture paradigms. • Proven problem-solving abilities and a strong drive for independent learning and work. • Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use. • Expert knowledge in architecture & system design. • Expert proficiency in Agile development process

🏖️ Benefits

• Diverse global team • Inclusive work culture • Opportunity to make a significant impact on people's economic empowerment.