Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

You will work closely with fellow Tala engineers to build and extend Tala's backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and a fast growing user base. The Senior Backend Engineer owns systems and initiatives that span a domain. You set your own technical approach, need minimal technical guidance, and raise the domain's quality bar through design, review, and partnership with peers.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data integration layers that power key product features
• Author design documents (EDDs) for services in the domain and defend them in review
• Design and optimize database schemas and queries for performance and system reliability
• Meet project goals without trading away quality, and pay down technical debt as part of delivery rather than as a separate request
• Quality, Review, and Standards

What you need

• System design
• REST APIs
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• Agile
• Java
• Any graduate

Good to have

• SQL Server
• DynamoDB
• ISO 27001
• OWASP
• Cassandra
• Redshift