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Backend Engineer (Infrastructure,API Engineer, Devops)

CowrywiseLagos, NigeriaOnsite
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About Cowrywise


Cowrywise is building the dominant, digital-first wealth management platform for the young generation of Nigerians. For over 6 years, we have helped over 1 million customers grow wealth through our savings and diverse investment products. Sprout, our business platform is helping thousands of businesses turbo charge their revenue.

About the position


We are looking for a passionate and skilled software engineer to join our backend/infrastructure team. This role entails architecting and developing software to solve diverse business problems in wealth management. You must have interest in the infrastructure running your code as much as you have in the code itself.You should be able to build high-quality, testable and fully performing software in compliance with our coding standards and technical design.

What you will do


As a backend engineer, you will work on product features, APIs and Internal tools. Your work will involve:


  • Working with different technologies and products for which you will design, build, test, and ship code every day.

  • Maintaining and extending our existing code base

  • Creating technical specification documents for new features and products

  • Reviewing PRs, debugging production issues and supporting our customers

  • Tuning and monitoring the performance of our infrastructure stack and automating our workflows.

  • Building new internal services and tools for the engineering team

Preferred Qualifications



  • 3+ years' experience of working in a backend / software development role

  • Significant experience in developing APIs using python in any framework (Django, FastAPI, Flask etc)

  • Knowledge of Golang and Typescript will be a bonus

  • Excellent knowledge of Databases (SQL/NoSQL): MySQL, Mongo, Timescale, AWS RDS

  • Experience with AWS Cloud, Linux OS performance tuning and APM tools

  • Experience with cloud deployments & writing Docker configurations

  • Good knowledge of queuing systems / distributed systems / Message brokers / In memory caches

  • BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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Life at Cowrywise

Cowrywise is a financial technology company digitizing the investment management industry in Africa and democratizing access to savings and investment products for the growing population of the underserved African middle class and millennials. Our mission is to empower our customers with powerful wealth-building tools to enable them to improve their financial health. With over 200,000 personal accounts, our growth demonstrates the rapid adoption of digital alternatives to traditional wealth management products. Cowrywise is backed by venture capital firms who share our vision. Our existing investors include Quona Capital, Y Combinator, Venture Souq, SHL Capital and Kairos 50 Ventures. Cowrywise is also the first Nigerian company to be accepted into the Catalyst Fund program, backed by JP Morgan and UKAID. Cowrywise is being built by people with a shared vision that easy access to powerful wealth-building tools is a fundamental financial right everyone deserves.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Digital wealth management platform for young Nigerians2. Wealth growth through savings & diverse investments3. Business revenue acceleration via Sprout platform4. Inclusive, diverse work environment5. Culture of innovation, creativity, collaboration6. Competitive compensation packages (health insurance, retirement plans)

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