Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer SCOPE OF ROLE: As a Backend Engineer, you will build and maintain the API behind Misan by Bamboo, working alongside our Senior Backend Engineer to own core remittance, virtual card, and payment flows. You will take primary ownership of provider integrations, webhooks, and notification systems, while contributing to core transfer logic as the team scales. You will use your understanding of programming tools and languages to contribute to the existing codebase, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems and create a fantastic experience for users. You will participate in weekly team syncs, contribute to roadmaps, and ensure safe and efficient payment processing. Your role is central to ensuring the Misan app releases are high-quality and meet the needs of our customers. What you will be doing: Build and maintain API endpoints and business logic for remittance transfers, virtual card issuance and transactions, and payout tracking. Own integrations with third-party payment and remittance providers and banking partners, including webhook handling and retry logic. Write clean, tested Laravel code (Eloquent models, controllers, form requests, jobs) following standards set by the Senior Backend Engineer. Contribute to database schema design and migrations as new countries, currencies, and payment rails are added. Build and maintain background jobs and queues for async work: transaction status updates, user notifications, reconciliation checks. Work closely with Mobile and Web engineers to deliver and document API contracts they can build against confidently. Write and maintain automated tests (unit and feature) for the codebase, working with QA to close coverage gaps. Participate in code reviews, on-call rotation, and incident response for backend issues. Follow secure coding practices appropriate for handling financial data, including encryption, input validation, and least-privilege access. Utilize AI responsibly and securely to improve the quality and delivery of your work, ensuring any AI-assisted development strictly adheres to Misan's data sovereignty and platform security standards. Who You Are 2-4 years of backend engineering experience, ideally with some exposure to fintech, payments, or another data-sensitive domain. Solid, practical experience with PHP/Laravel — Eloquent, queues, middleware, and API resource design. You understand (or are eager to learn) idempotency and transactional integrity, and why "just retry it" is dangerous in payment systems. Comfortable working with third-party APIs: reading documentation, handling webhooks, and building resilient retry and error-handling logic. You write tests as a habit during development, not an afterthought. You are comfortable receiving direct code review feedback and iterating quickly. You are a good communicator, comfortable flagging risk or asking questions rather than guessing silently on payment logic. You take full ownership of your work. You are proficient using git and project management tools: Gitlab, Jira, Notion, FigJam, etc. You are known for being a creative problem solver with the attitude that there is no problem that cannot be solved, fixed, or mitigated. You bring a positive energy. You are optimistic about the future and determined to get there. You appreciate direct communication. You are both an active communicator and an eager listener. You are never tired of learning. Locations Nigeria Remote status Fully Remote About Bamboo Bamboo is a digital investment platform that gives customers direct, real-time access to US dollar fixed-income investments and US-listed stocks and ETFs right from their personal devices. Bamboo’s vision to empower every African with the resources they need to build wealth from the ground up is built on the belief that we can democratize access to a stream of wealth creation instruments, global investment opportunities for retail and institutional investors across Africa and foreign markets