Why This Role Exists

In the Payouts team, we enable money to move reliably from Peach Payments to merchants, beneficiaries, and partners across Africa. Our portfolio covers the products and services that power payouts - including initiation and orchestration of disbursements, status tracking and reconciliation, payout configuration and APIs for merchant integration, and the operational tooling that keeps payouts secure, compliant, and observable at scale.

This team maintains and evolves existing payout capabilities while building new features to support merchant needs and new business opportunities. As a Senior Engineer, you will own complex work end-to-end and help less senior engineers grow through pairing, design reviews, and clear technical guidance.

Our Tech Stack

Languages: TypeScript and Python

Infrastructure: AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Serverless)

Databases: PostgreSQL,DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress

AI tools: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and similar AI-assisted development tools

CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines

Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

Role expectations

Competencies: What You Bring

Technical Expertise:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud-based software engineering (strong backend; comfortable across the full stack)
• Strong experience with TypeScript and Python
• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless)
• Database experience (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Comfortable using AI coding tools (e.g. Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT) to boost productivity without sacrificing judgement, testing, or security
• Bonus: experience with payments or financial disbursements

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

• Designs elegant, scalable solutions for new features
• Iteratively improves existing systems toward best practices and modern standards
• Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment
• Comfortable leading complex, ambiguous work independently while keeping stakeholders informed

Mentorship & Collaboration:

• Actively helps less senior team members develop their skills through clear feedback, pairing, and knowledge sharing
• Works well in a remote/hybrid team, with strong written and verbal English
• Collaborates effectively with product, operations, and external partners

Why Join Peach Payments?

• Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions
• Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa
• Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success
• Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere (+-3 hours of SAST) while staying connected to a world-class team
• Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more

• Design, build, and ship new Payouts features, and improve existing ones, across the full stack
• Translate technical requirements into robust solutions alongside the team across our payments product portfolio
• Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payout processing in our backend and integrations
• Troubleshoot and debug Payouts issues effectively in production
• Independently diagnose incidents and propose fixes using logs, monitoring, and code analysis
• Own complex initiatives from design through delivery, with minimal oversight
• Mentor and support less senior engineers through pairing, code review, and coaching so the team levels up together
• Use AI development tools thoughtfully to accelerate delivery while maintaining high code quality, security, and ownership of the outcome

• TypeScript
• Python
• AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)
• PostgreSQL
• DynamoDB
• MongoDB
• AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT)

• 7+ years of experience in cloud-based software engineering
• Strong backend experience; comfortable across the full stack
• Experience with TypeScript and Python
• AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless)
• Database experience (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB)
• Comfortable using AI coding tools
• Bonus: experience with payments or financial disbursements