Job Description

AeTrade Group is recruiting qualified technology professionals to support the development and deployment of AeTrust, a digital financial services platform designed to advance financial inclusion, digital inclusion, MSME empowerment, secure payments, and sustainable business growth.

AeTrust will support wallet services, merchant payments, digital onboarding, KYC workflows, payment integrations, operational dashboards, and future integration with AeTrade Group’s wider ecosystem, including Sokokuu and AeLearning.

We are seeking professionals who can build secure, scalable, reliable, and user-centered digital financial products for high-trust and high-impact use cases.

AeTrade Group is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer / Lead for the AeTrust platform. The successful candidate will lead the development of secure and scalable backend services, with direct responsibility for high-risk and security-critical systems related to ledger operations, payment integrations, wallet balances, money movement, reconciliation, and core financial services.

The role will serve as the senior technical point of contact across backend engineering and will provide technical direction, code review, architectural guidance, production support, and mentorship to the backend team.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of secure backend services and APIs.
• Own backend systems that are critical to correctness, security, reliability, and financial integrity.
• Lead development of ledger, payment integration, wallet, reconciliation, settlement, and money movement services.
• Provide technical direction and review across backend engineering work.
• Set and uphold backend engineering standards, including code quality, testing, documentation, reliability, and security practices.
• Own production reliability and incident response for backend systems, including security-related incidents.
• Review and improve backend architecture, service boundaries, API contracts, and database design.
• Support integration with payment providers, banking partners, mobile money providers, and other third-party systems.
• Mentor backend engineers and support the growth of the engineering team.
• Work closely with product, compliance, operations, security, and business teams to ensure systems meet operational and regulatory needs.