Senior Backend Engineer
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- Lagos, Nigeria
- Muang Phônsavan, Laos
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Senior Backend Engineer at Kuda Technologies Ltd in Lagos, Nigeria, with a hybrid, full-time setup. JobGrid presents the role using the structured facts provided in the source and keeps the original-language source boundary intact; no salary was provided, so none is added. The application path goes through Kuda's original public application page, with non-personal referral parameters appended by JobGrid. This listing is part of JobGrid's Softwareentwickler-Jobs von öffentlichen Karriereseiten.
- Primary location is Lagos, Nigeria; an additional listed location is Muang Phônsavan, Laos, both marked hybrid.
- Employment type is full time; seniority, category, and salary were not provided in the payload.
- Source freshness is current to the supplied timestamps: posted 2026-06-09 and last checked 2026-06-09.
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Summary - About KUDA
Kuda, which means ‘love’ in Shona, is more than a fintech - it’s a movement to make financial services accessible, affordable, and truly rewarding for every African.
Backed by over $100 million from some of the world’s most respected investors, we’re building a smarter alternative to traditional banking - offering seamless money transfers, business banking, and instant access to credit, all through your device.
At Kuda, we don’t just build products - we build people. We share the love in how we collaborate, carry everyone along as we grow, break boundaries to challenge what’s possible, and show up every day committed to doing better.
If you’re driven by purpose, excited by impact, and ready to help redefine the future of finance in Africa, you’ll feel right at home here.
Role Overview
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own the reliability, scalability, and developer experience of our distributed systems — and you will help define what we invest in each quarter. You will sit at the intersection of infrastructure, architecture, and technical strategy, with the reach to shape how every squad at Kuda ships software.
Responsibilities
- Ecosystem architecture: Build shared platform services, internal SDKs, and developer tooling that other teams adopt — your output multiplies squad output, not just your own.
- Quarterly initiative definition: Partner with engineering leadership, product, and finance to identify, scope, and prioritise platform investments with clear business outcomes (uptime = revenue, deploy frequency = faster GTM).
- Event-driven infrastructure: Own Kafka clusters end-to-end — topic design, partition strategy, consumer lag management, schema evolution, and failure recovery at scale.
- Caching & state layer: Lead Redis patterns across the org: cluster mode, pub/sub, distributed locks, eviction policies, and scripting for low-latency financial workloads.
- Engineering velocity: Drive DORA metrics practice — deploy frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and MTTR — turning data into quarterly engineering decisions, not just dashboards.
- Platform standards: Define and enforce observability, alerting, service mesh, and on-call standards across all squads. Write the RFCs and ADRs the org builds from.
- Build vs. buy decisions: Lead the evaluation of open-source tooling vs. custom builds — with a track record of getting both right.
- Fintech compliance: Embed audit trails, data residency, and PCI/SOC-aware patterns into platform design from day one, not as an afterthought.
- Mentorship at scale: Grow mid and senior engineers through architecture reviews, pairing, and written craft — making knowledge transfer a force multiplier, not a bottleneck.