As a Staff Engineer at LemFi, you will be the technical engine behind our Remittance Platform, a critical system processing tens of millions of cross-border transactions every month. You will drive the architectural strategy that enables immigrants around the world to send money home safely and efficiently.
What You'll Do
- Guide architectural decisions from concept to production across multiple teams, ensuring our systems are scalable and well-informed.
- Set and uphold benchmarks for design, implementation, testing, reliability, and scalability across the organisation.
- Take hands-on ownership of high-stakes system components to set a gold standard for the team by example.
- Provide technical guidance to engineers and leads, removing blockers and bringing clarity to ambiguous challenges through strong communication.
- Partner with Product, Data, and Growth stakeholders to align our technical roadmap with broader company priorities.
- Shape company-wide engineering standards, continuously improving tooling and processes for long-term impact.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of experience building scalable, production-grade distributed systems.
- Deep Go Lang expertise: extensive hands-on experience using Go for building distributed services.
- System Design mastery with a proven track record in Domain-Driven Design (DDD), modular architecture, and evolving RESTful APIs.
- Advanced infrastructure knowledge: proficiency with PostgreSQL (optimization and transaction handling), Redis, and async patterns like Kafka.
- Cloud & DevOps savvy: ability to translate requirements into secure, cost-efficient AWS architectures using Docker and shift-left automation.
- Observability focus: deep experience in establishing logging, metrics, and distributed tracing standards.
Nice to Have
- A degree in Computer Science.
- Previous experience in the FinTech/Banking domain.
Technical Stack
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Kafka
- AWS
- Docker
Team & Environment
You'll join a global team of 400+ people spanning 20+ countries, working in a culture that emphasizes sharp customer focus, leading with data, ownership, and grit.
Work Mode
This role is global and supports a remote-first work environment.
LemFi is an equal opportunity employer.
