Senior Backend Engineer

About Luo

Luo is one of the fastest-growing FX and cross-border payments companies in Africa. We help African businesses pay their international suppliers faster, more transparently, and more competitively than traditional solutions.

After becoming a leading player in a few markets in record time, we are looking to grow our engineering team and keep building the financial infrastructure for FX and cross-border payments in Africa.

Role overview

You will join a small team of experienced engineers and contribute to a diverse range of customer-facing products, internal tools and financial systems. Your solutions will help grow and run a payment infrastructure that processes millions of euros of transactions per day.

Key responsibilities

• Build production-grade HTTP APIs with Golang.
• Build API integrations with fintech partners.
• Drive architectural decisions.
• Build CI/CD pipelines.
• Deploy resources and services to Google Cloud Platform.
• Apply best SRE and security practices.
• Perform rigorous testing.
• Leverage AI-driven development practices.

What we are looking for

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Golang.
• Strong experience working with SQL databases.
• Experience managing infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform or other cloud providers.
• Experience working in a high-pace team.
• Proficient with LLM-driven development.

Systems built at Luo

• Payment platform for businesses in Africa.
• Internal tools for payment operators, treasury analysts and FX traders.
• Use of AI to OCR and approve invoices.
• KYC onboarding flows.
• Anti-Money Laundering and Transaction Monitoring systems.
• Core Banking System and Ledger System.
• Payout automations with banking partners.

Tech stack

Golang, Typescript, React, Postgres, Docker, Gitlab, GCP, Cloudflare

Start date

Immediately.

Location

Paris / Remote