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Backend Engineer - Stablecoin at Kredete

KredeteLagos, Nigeria Software Development
Full Time
Kredete is a personal finance company that's focused on helping everyone in Africa make financial progress. We believe that when it comes to money, everyone deserves a chance to succeed. That's why we offer a range of tools and personalized recommendations designed to help people make the most off their money - no matter where they're starting from. With Kredete, anyone can access the financial resources they need to get ahead.

About Kredete

  • Kredete is a financial technology platform designed to help African immigrants build credit and send money instantly to over 30+ African countries. Using stablecoins and modern payment systems, we make it easy and affordable for businesses to move money across borders. Our mission is to provide accessible, secure, and low-cost financial solutions that improve cash flow and support financial growth for individuals and businesses.
  • With Kredete, we're connecting people and communities to better financial opportunities globally.
  • We are looking for a talented and high impact Backend Engineer to drive our growth, he/she will be responsible for the architecture and building of a scalable and reliable system, guiding other engineers through the complexities of blockchain integration and global payment infrastructure.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build internal ledgering systems that track balances across multiple chains and token types
  • Integrate stablecoin infrastructure into Kredete’s existing payment infrastructures, enabling seamless conversion between any supported currency and stablecoins
  • Lead and grow a focused, high-impact engineering team building stablecoin infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Design and implement secure systems for key management, transaction signing, gas fee management, and blockchain integration
  • Own services that manage the full lifecycle of stablecoin transactions mint, burn, transfer, reconciliation
  • Work with engineers to write, review, and ship production code
  • Collaborate with product and compliance to deliver reliable and auditable services

Who You Are:

  • Experienced engineer with 5+ with deep expertise in object-oriented design and production-grade software development, including at least one strongly typed language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, C#, C++, Rust,Python)
  • A collaborative, empathetic and hands-on leader. An astute communicator, working well with product, compliance and all non-technical teams.
  • Proven experience building and integrating blockchain infrastructure (wallets, transaction flows, key management, etc.) into larger financial systems
  • Experienced in integrating new systems into legacy or distributed environments without introducing instability or regressions.
  • Strong grasp of secure system design, particularly around private key handling, signing, encryption, and operational controls
  • You mentor engineers through regular code reviews and technical guidance, and encourage sharing practical knowledge across the team
  • Able to quickly pick up unfamiliar tools or frameworks when needed and adjust to changing technical priorities.

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