[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Talent Safari

Role Description

Boost is searching for exceptional candidates to level up our backend engineering team. We’re looking for individuals who are equally motivated by crafting Pythonic code as they are by creating delightful user experiences.

You’ll join a small, high-performing team building commerce and fintech products for the FMCG sector, working directly with experienced co-founders across Africa and beyond. This is a unique opportunity to join an incredible team in a purpose-driven startup!

What You Will Do

• Write elegant, performant, and well-tested code.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship new and improve existing code.
• Work to understand the wider purpose of each feature.
• Define, communicate, and execute on a clear plan for your work.
• Scope larger features down into smaller, actionable items of work.
• Strive to reduce technical debt and communicate larger refactors.
• Support peers through pairing, reviewing, and mentoring.
• Prepare clean and well-written pull requests, and help to ship your work.
• Actively participate in broader engineering efforts.
• Enable the engineering team to make better decisions.
• Contribute to the Platform roadmap and prioritisation.
• Work closely with in-country product teams to better understand product requests.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a relevant field.
• A deep knowledge of Python and the ability to write clear and Pythonic code.
• Strong AI expertise and an AI-first mindset.
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL (any dialect is fine, but we work with PostgreSQL).
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (we use AWS).
• Relevant experience in a similar role, preferably within a fast-growing startup.
• Openness to others’ ideas with a shared desire to understand and communicate the purpose of the work.

Requirements

• Keen, bright, and curious.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and passionate about learning from and delighting customers.
• Engineering, mathematical, or scientific background.
• Supportive of peers through pair programming, reviewing, and mentoring.
• Ability to adjust well to shifting priorities.
• Great communicator who builds bridges between diverse backgrounds and cultures.
• Motivated by our mission and ambitious to grow into a larger future role.

Benefits

• Be purpose-driven: motivated by enabling informal retailers to thrive in the digital economy.
• Be tenacious: persevere until you find a solution when faced with adversity.
• Be compassionate: empathise with others and take actionable steps to deliver solutions.
• Be whole: take care of your well-being while achieving results.
• Be good: be your honest, authentic self and do the right thing under pressure.