Backend Engineer II

About Tala

Tala is on a mission to unleash the economic power of the Global Majority – the 4 billion people overlooked by existing financial systems. With nearly half a billion dollars raised from equity and debt, we are serving millions of customers across three continents. Tala has been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50 five years in a row, CNBC’s World's Top Fintech Company, Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for eight years running, and Chief's The New Era of Leadership Award. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about our mission.

By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, over nine million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.

Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!

The Role

The Backend Engineer II will build and extend Tala’s backend architecture to support new country launches, new features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist, the Backend Engineer works towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant microservices platform. The backend Engineer follows Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives

The Lending engineering domain team at Tala is looking for a highly motivated engineer to support our growing product. We are looking for someone who loves to debug, solve problems, and is always looking for ways to up-level existing systems and processes. This rewarding team environment has great culture and huge potential for career progression and professional growth. We are always looking for top tier engineers and are willing to tailor the role for the right person.

What You'll Do

• Designing and building large components in multiple services.
• Work with the team to ensure high quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Create the optimum technical solution considering all the non-functional requirements.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.

What You'll Need

• Minimum of 2 years hands-on experience in designing and developing applications using one or more of the following languages: Java, Kotlin or Scala, using at least one web framework (e.g., Spring, Play Framework, Akka HTTP)
• Working knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming patterns and concepts.
• Minimum of 1 year experience building, deploying, and supporting cloud-based applications in production environments (AWS and/or Google Cloud)
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Aurora, etc.) using both raw queries and ORMs (e.g., Hibernate, Slick).
• Experience with message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).

Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.