Imagine working with a world-class engineering team, building high-impact digital products that'll revolutionalize the consumer finance industry in Egypt...
b_labs is the innovation arm of B.TECH, a cornerstone of the Egyptian retail industry. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to be part of the foundation team at our Fintech squad who will play a pivotal role in building Egypt’s leading consumer finance product.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will shape the technical vision of the digital product and build distributed transactional systems. Working alongside peers in design and product, you will bring to life a world-class consumer finance product, driving innovation and creating game-changing experiences for our customers.
If you are passionate about building breakthrough digital products, and if you thrive in a diverse and inclusive team, b_labs is the perfect opportunity for you. Join us at the forefront of digital retail in Egypt and help shape the future of our industry, one breakthrough at a time.
Responsibilities
- Develop cloud-native, scalable financial systems (General Ledger, Reconciliation, Payment systems) using Golang, deployed on Kubernetes or similar solutions
- Collaborate with Product and Design to shape and deliver our technical products, ensuring their success with our customers
- Own end-to-end feature development using best-in-class architecture and design patterns
- Write tests (unit, contract, component, e2e) to increase deployment confidence
- Build automated delivery pipelines and infrastructure using Terraform/Ansible
- Utilize monitoring and tracing infrastructure (Prometheus + Grafana, ELK, Open Tracing using AWS X-Ray /Jaeger)
- Communicate with financial and credit risk business users to validate and accept ideas
- Lead by example and actively promote a safe, collaborative, diverse, and agile company culture, inspiring others to embrace our values
Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial experience building large-scale transactional applications and expertise in Golang
- Strong proficiency in software engineering best practices and modern distributed architecture patterns
- Experience in building solution architecture, setting up design principles and making architecture decisions
- Deep understanding of async communication between systems, worker pools, and async workflow architecture
- Expertise in writing native SQL queries (e.g. PostgreSQL)
- Experience using cloud provider platforms like AWS, and deploying distributed services to Fargate and/or AKS (Terraform knowledge is a plus)
- Collaborative and agile mindset with strong teamwork skills
- Willingness to continuously learn and improve skills and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends
Benefits
Office environment: When you come to our b_labs office, you'll find creative workspaces, a well-equipped kitchen, and an open design to foster collaboration between teams.
Education budget: We believe the learning journey never ends, therefore you will be entitled to an annual education budget to take part in trainings, courses or onsite conferences of your choice.
Flexibility: You know best whether you want to work from home or in the office. However, if you want to join your teammates onsite, we will subsidize the costs for lunch to foster the b_labs office community
Mobility package: When you are joining the b_labs office, we will subsidize your mobility expenses for public transport.
Equipment: From "Day 1" you will receive all the equipment you need be successful at work. Therefore, you can choose your laptop and get all the tools you need to stay on top of your game.