Senior Backend Engineer

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🕒 September 11

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 14%

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Talent Safari

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

Recruitment • B2B • HR Tech

Talent Safari is dedicated to connecting Africa's best talent with innovative startups, facilitating quality-first hiring with a focus on customer success. The company expertly finds high-quality, vetted candidates for startups within two weeks, allowing clients to focus on their growth. With a team that has startup expertise and a vast community of professionals in various fields, Talent Safari provides an efficient recruitment process while ensuring satisfaction through a 90-day probation guarantee.

📋 Description

• Write elegant, performant, and well-tested code • Develop features, bug fixes, tests, and infrastructure code • Work with product and engineering teams to understand feature purpose and deliver improvements • Define, communicate, and execute work plans • Break larger features into smaller actionable tasks • Reduce technical debt and communicate larger refactors • Support peers through pairing, code review, and mentoring • Prepare pull requests and help ship work • Participate in broader engineering efforts • Contribute to the Platform roadmap and prioritisation • Work with in-country product teams to understand product requests and clarify requirements • Serve as a link between country teams and informal-sector retailers, helping upskill internal teams’ technical knowledge • Report to Boost’s Chief Technology Officer

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in a relevant field • Deep knowledge of Python and ability to write clear, Pythonic code • Strong AI expertise and an AI-first mindset • Experience with relational databases and SQL; PostgreSQL is used • Experience with cloud infrastructure; AWS is used • Relevant experience in a similar role, preferably within a fast-growing startup • Engineering, mathematical, or scientific background • Ability to work remotely • Strong communication and collaboration abilities • Experience or willingness to support peers through pair programming, reviewing, and mentoring