Tech Lead - Commerce
About The Position
Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure. In the Commerce team, we manage the end-user experience for customers making payments with Peach Payments, including how merchants integrate with Peach Payments and configure their tailored checkout experience. Our team’s portfolio consists primarily of products and services relating to enabling checkout in different means, such as via an embedded checkout on the merchant’s website, redirecting to a hosted checkout page on our domain, serving a once-off customized payment link, or a multi-use page that customers can pay through. This team maintains our existing products and services, and builds out new products and features to meet our merchants' needs and new business opportunities. Our Tech Stack includes Languages: Python and TypeScript; Infrastructure: AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Serverless); Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL; Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress; CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines; Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
- Strong experience with Python and Typescript
- AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)
- Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)
- Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Payments
Responsibilities
- Successfully build new features, and enhance existing Commerce features
- Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full Commerce product portfolio
- Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend
- Effective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issues
- Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis
Benefits
- Generous annual and life leave allocation
- Market related salaries
- VSOP (Virtual Share Option Plan)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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