Senior Backend Engineer

About Luo

Luo is one of the fastest-growing FX and cross-border payments companies in Africa. We help African businesses pay their international suppliers faster, more transparently, and more competitively than traditional solutions.

After becoming a leading player in a few markets in record time, we are looking to grow our engineering team and keep building the financial infrastructure for FX and cross-border payments in Africa.

Role overview

You will join a small team of experienced engineers and contribute to a diverse range of customer-facing products, internal tools and financial systems. Your solutions will help grow and run a payment infrastructure that processes millions of euros of transactions per day.

Key responsibilities

• Build production-grade HTTP APIs with Golang.

• Build API integrations with fintech partners.

• Drive architectural decisions.

• Build CI/CD pipelines.

• Deploy resources and services to Google Cloud Platform.

• Follow best security practices.

• Perform rigorous testing.

• Leverage AI-driven development practices.

What we are looking for

• 6+ years of backend development experience.

• Strong knowledge of Golang.

• Strong experience working with SQL databases.

• Experience managing infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform or other cloud providers.

• Experience working in a high-pace team.

• Proficient with LLM-driven development.

Systems built at Luo

• Payment platform for businesses in Africa.

• Internal tools for payment operators, treasury analysts and FX traders.

• Use of AI to OCR and approve invoices.

• KYC onboarding flows.

• Anti-Money Laundering and Transaction Monitoring systems.

• Core Banking System and Ledger System.

• Payout automations with banking partners.

Tech stack

Golang, Typescript, React, Postgres, Docker, Gitlab, GCP, Cloudflare

Start date

Immediately.

Location

Paris / Remote