Systems Engineer

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🕒 July 27

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Kappa

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2 - 10 employees

Founded 2021

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

💰 $5M Seed Round - Kappa Pay on 2024-04

Fintech • B2B

Kappa is a payments and FX-focused company that helps African businesses (and individuals) send and receive money across the globe. It provides cross-border payment rails, treasury and foreign-exchange services, fast settlement guarantees, low fees and high transaction limits, and fraud/encryption protections. Kappa connects bank accounts or accepts cash deposits, supports transfers from Cameroon, Nigeria and the CEMAC region to many destinations (including USA, France, UK, China, UAE), and offers live English and French support. The company positions itself as a fintech platform for businesses to pay suppliers and receive customer payments internationally, with offices in Boston, Douala and Lagos.

📋 Description

• Build the infrastructure required to run production applications, as well as work on the applications themselves • Perform holistic performance tuning and reliability engineering, treating failure as an inevitability rather than an edge case • Conduct security analysis, including network, OS and code techniques • Instrument the stack using metrics, traces and logs • Participate in on-call rotas to support the platform operationally

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering or a related discipline (e.g. SRE) • Good instincts regarding mechanical sympathy — reasoning from first principles about what goes on close to the metal • Strong operational instincts — understanding that building alone isn’t enough • Experience with infrastructure as code — declarative provisioning (Terraform or equivalent) • Operating systems and Kubernetes principles — user/kernel separation, system calls, etc. • Solid host-level networking skills • Observability instincts and experience — when to reach for logs, traces, metrics • You write golang to a level a senior backend engineer would respect — this is an engineering role, not a scripting role • Experience with relational databases is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and equity — top of market. We believe in hiring fewer but better people and paying them more. • Health, dental and vision insurance (for you and your dependents) • Work remotely from any Africa-friendly timezone (GMT-2h to GMT+4h), periodic team meet-ups across Europe • New MacBook Pro and up to $2,000 for home office equipment (headphones, chair, standing desk, etc.) • Parental leave / family-friendly culture • Unlimited paid time off