Senior Backend Engineer
Busha operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform enabling users to buy, sell, trade, and manage digital assets with Nigerian Naira and Kenyan Shilling integration.
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About Busha
Busha operates an SEC-licensed cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform across Nigeria and Kenya. Users can trade multiple digital assets with local currency integration, access yield-earning opportunities through partnered lending programs, obtain crypto-backed loans, and utilize payment cards for spending. The platform provides mobile applications for iOS and Android with features including instant payouts to local bank accounts, recurring purchase automation, limit orders, and real-time market data.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Work with designers and cross-functional teams to integrate frontend elements with server-side logic, build reusable code libraries, implement security and data-storage solutions, maintain server stability, improve code quality through testing and reviews, optimize performance, and document technical solutions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience
- Proven backend developer experience
- Experience with software engineering best practices
- In-depth understanding of data structures and computer science fundamentals
- Fluency or understanding of Golang, messaging queues, databases, and operating systems
- Understanding of accessibility and server compliance
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle, programming techniques, and tools
Responsibilities
- Integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Participate in the overall application lifecycle
- Build reusable code libraries
- Implement security structures and best practices
- Conceptualize and implement data-storage solutions
- Maintain server stability with zero downtime
- Configure backend usability for frontend applications
- Improve code quality through unit tests, automation, and code reviews
- Work with product and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
- Write clean, scalable, and efficient code
- Troubleshoot and debug performance issues
- Inspect server code for speed optimization
- Attend regular frontend team meetings
- Stay current with best practices
- Provide code documentation and technical inputs