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Grey is a fast-growing company that makes it easy for digital nomads worldwide to own foreign accounts. We help freelancers, remote workers, gig workers, and businesses create USD, EUR, and GBP foreign accounts to easily send, receive, save, and spend foreign currency.
Grey’s services are provided by Grey Inc., a company duly incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. Grey is a fully remote company with staff in Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, the UK, and the USA.
We're in search of a skilled Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll be pivotal in developing and maintaining our core systems, ensuring they're scalable, reliable, and secure. You’ll get to collaborate with cross-functional teams as you'll be instrumental in designing and implementing backend solutions that are essential to our success.
Your day-to-day
- Develop, maintain, and scale backend systems.
- Conduct thorough code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members.
- Write high-quality code adhering to best practices and coding standards.
- Enhance system performance and reliability through efficient architecture and code optimization.
- Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions.
- Identify and address technical debt, code vulnerabilities, and performance bottlenecks.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of backend development experience, with a focus on fintech or financial services is a plus.
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages primarily Go.
- Strong grasp of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Experience with Microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud (AWS is a plus).
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
🔆 Flexible working hours
🔝 Remote friendly
🩺 Health Insurance
👨🏾🏫 Training Budget
😎 Team building events
🚀 Yearly offsite
Skills Required
- 4+ years of backend development experience
- Experience focused on fintech or financial services
- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, primarily Go
- Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with AWS
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
What We Do
As the digital economy continues to grow globally, there’s a growing demand for efficient and accessible financial solutions for digital nomads. Grey is at the forefront of providing secure and convenient global banking solutions to meet the needs of customers and businesses. Our primary focus is emerging markets, and we have created a range of services that enable individuals and businesses to own and manage multi-currency accounts, conduct real-time money transfers to over 80 countries, and enjoy the convenience of virtual cards for global spending. The founders- Idorenyin Obong and Femi Aghedo, are expert software engineers with proven experience in the financial service industry. The mission is simple- to provide simple international banking to everyone, no matter where they are. That is the foundation of what we do at Grey. For us at Grey, it is beyond just building remittance solutions. We sincerely want to enhance the interconnectivity of the evolving gig economy in developing countries; improving how we deal with cross-border remittance is just one way. Our team includes some of the brightest minds from diverse backgrounds working together to build solutions our users love. With a Money Service Business license from FINTRAC in Canada and FinCEN in the USA, Grey Inc., a company duly incorporated under the laws of Delaware, USA, is the provider of Grey’s services.
