NALA is building payments for the next billion, focusing on faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone.
Since 2022, NALA has grown its business 120x and expanded its team from 9 to over 150 members.
The company has raised over $50M from top-tier investors and was named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.
NALA operates two core products: the consumer app NALA for cross-border payments and Rafiki, a B2B payments infrastructure.
The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance digital payment systems and infrastructure for Africa and Asia by developing and designing core components of the Rafiki web service API.
The role involves opening up NALA’s payment rails to customers via API, enabling corporates to send, receive, and convert funds directly from their systems.
Responsibilities include building business-facing features, integrating with payment partners, implementing core business logic, launching new countries, using data for decision-making, automating processes, and contributing to REST API functionalities.
Requirements:
Candidates must have at least 5+ years of experience building highly reliable and scalable backend services in Go.
Experience with RDBMSs such as Postgres and MySQL is required.
Familiarity with message-broker technologies like Kafka and RabbitMQ, and experience working within event-driven architectures is necessary.
Candidates should possess excellent knowledge of best practices in designing, developing, and deploying services in a cloud environment.
Experience working asynchronously with global teams using tools like Slack, Teams, and Jira is essential.
A passion for the product and the mission of NALA is required.
Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory.
Benefits:
Employees enjoy 35 days of holidays, which includes 27 days plus 8 bank holidays if based in the UK.
A bonus day off is provided for employees to celebrate their birthday within the month.
Enhanced parental leave includes 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks for the secondary caregiver after the probationary period.
Access to WeWork locations worldwide is available for a global workspace.
A learning budget of $1000 annually is provided for personal growth and development.
For those working in the London office, hybrid working is implemented, with four days a week in the Canary Wharf Office.
The company offers themed snacks and Friday lunches to foster team relationships.
Monthly social events are organized for employees to enjoy.
Free barista-style coffee is available at the office.
