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Peach Payments

• Our vision is to deliver delightful experiences for merchants and users, and be the payments partner of choice on the African continent.
• In everything we do, we strive to make it as easy as possible for merchants to focus on their business, while we take care of their payment needs.
• We work with the biggest enterprise businesses and the side-hustle next door, across every sector of the economy.
• We pride ourselves on delivering a world-class payments service with a seamless and secure checkout, enterprise-grade security and personalized multi-channel support to every business we partner with. We integrate easily with leading e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce, Wix, Shopify, Magento and Prestashop, and our modern API allows for custom integrations.
• We currently enable both enterprise and SME ecommerce in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius, with rapid expansion planned to more countries on the continent.

Why we are hiring for this role:

The Software Backend Engineer will be coordinating closely with the other payments team which is building out new payment methods and the CDE team that is ensuring the payment rails for our card processing is managed correctly. This role specifically will be implementing new enhancements to our internal switch service and extending its capabilities.

How you will be making a difference:

• Developing and maintaining our core payments api(Switch)
• We are looking for someone who has:
• Someone with at least 6 years of experience in Python
• Experience working with database technologies and SQL
• Experience designing, building, testing and deploying secure and scalable applications
• Experience with AWS, Serverless / Lambdas / API Gateway a plus
• Bonus: Interest or experience in the FinTech space
• A valid work authorization to work in the country that you reside in
• In the next 3-6 months youll be focusing on:
• Designing, building, testing and deploying secure and scalable payment applications

What do people say about working here?

• We have a diverse, community-orientated team where failure is allowed. We fail fast but aim to succeed even quicker as were committed to enabling entrepreneurs.
• We are a remote-first team.
• This means that our teams predominantly work out of the office. We expect you to have a home or other office set-up, with reliable internet access. Team members have the option of going to a work space or office closest to them, where this allows. We may, from time to time, request team members to come to the office or travel to a location out of your area for complete team Meet-Ups
• We value diversity at Peach and therefore we are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.

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