Senior Software Engineer at 60 Degrees

About the position

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU:

We've partnered with global payments house and fintech and is currently scaling across their product engineering team; the current need is for a seasoned Full Stack Engineer to build customer-facing payment experiences across Africa.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving complex problems, and wants to work on systems that process millions of transactions.

Tech Stack

• 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

YOUR KEY 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

OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE:

Technical Expertise:

• 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)
• Bonus - Experience with Payments

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

• Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features
• Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment

Collaboration & Communication:

• 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

YOUR REWARD:

• Salary range: [URL Removed] CTC p.a. + perks
• Working Model: Remote

For more roles, please have a look at our website (www.60degrees.com). or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/10287263/)

Desired Skills:

• Python
• typescript
• aws
• Mongodb
• MySQL
• Postgressql
• Jira
• Confluence
• Postman
• CI/CD

Desired Work Experience:

• 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

• Degree

About The Employer:

This cutting-edge fintech company is shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. It empowers businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.