Senior Software Engineer

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 Senior Backend Engineer builds and extends Tala’s backend architecture to support new country launches, new products and features, and a fast-growing user base. As a technologist and a leader, the Senior Backend Engineer pushes the team towards building a highly available, scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and performant microservices platform. The Senior Backend Engineer follows and improves upon Tala’s engineering processes and standards while advancing Tala’s mission and business objectives

What You'll Do

• Design and implement features as defined in the Product roadmap
• Review design documents, perform code reviews and weigh in on implementation choices from other technical teams
• Continually improve our codebase with clean and efficient code as well as solving problems using the most appropriate technology
• Contribute to complete migration of legacy codebase to a microservices architecture
• Contribute to the testing infrastructure to increase code coverage for backend modules
• Collaborate and support with cross-functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Must have worked with event driven architectures and machine learning (ML) and/or AI solutions at scale

What You'll Need

• 5+ years coding in one or more of the following functional programming languages: Scala, Kotlin, Erlang, Haskel, Rust
• Should have worked with event driven architectures and/or machine learning (ML) and/or AI solutions at scale
• Strong Testing/TDD quality engineering practice
• Developed and launched large scale consumer applications with the backend on Cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud) using microservices architecture paradigm
• Expert knowledge in REST API design and development for mobile/web use

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.