About Kifiya Financial Technologies

Kifiya is an AI-powered financial and market infrastructure company advancing inclusive economic growth across Africa. We design and deploy risk-decisioning systems, intelligent financial infrastructure, and market linkage platforms that unlock credit, insurance, payments, and capital access for MSMEs and smallholder farmers. We build the AI, data, and financial infrastructure that helps financial institutions serve hard-to-finance segments at scale.

We are currently scaling our technology infrastructure to create a more inclusive and sustainable future. To support this initiative, we are seeking a highly competent and motivated professional to join our team.

Backend Engineer

Department: Smart Mobility

📍 Addis Ababa | 💼 Full-Time

Role Overview

You will design, build, and operate production-grade backend services for Kifiya’s AI-first financial infrastructure. This role focuses on distributed systems, data modeling, and security-by-design within a high-availability fintech environment.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture: Build modular, fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable distributed services.
API & Lifecycle: Own RESTful/event-driven APIs, including SLO definition and production monitoring.
Data: Design scalable relational/non-relational models; manage live schema migrations.
Reliability: Engineer for high throughput/low latency; implement circuit breakers, caching, and rate limiting.
Security & AI: Enforce encryption and RBAC; integrate backend services with AI model inference and scoring.
DevOps: Work with cloud-native orchestration and deployment automation.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s in CS, Software Engineering, or related technical field.
Experience: 3–7 years of production backend experience.
Core Strengths: Distributed systems, API development, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Preferred: Experience with financial systems, regulated environments, and Agile delivery.
Bonus: Advanced certifications in cloud, distributed systems, or cybersecurity.

Seeking a professional with strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to engineering rigor.

How To Apply

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to submit their application package, including a comprehensive CV and a brief cover letter outlining their technical experience, by emailing our HR team.

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