Senior Backend Python Engineer

Zepz Group is the group powering leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Zepz Group has been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by reducing the barriers to finance and increasing safety and convenience for users. Every day, Zepz Group and its brands work towards unlocking the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by the vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully. We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we’re open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts. We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn. We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them. We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.

What you will own:

• Write great code: We understand code is read more than it’s written, better off tested and maintainability is a must.
• Help shape what we build: You’ll be working closely with product owners, designers and other engineers to design and refine our work. We work as a team and your input is key.
• Influence technology evolution: We are designing new platforms with long-term goals in mind and are also happy to improve with new technology capabilities.
• Own delivery: We’re obsessed with shipping value; you’ll own work beyond a pull request. You’ll care about bugs, scalability, uptime and other non-functional requirements.
• Grow together: You’ll review others' work and happily seek feedback on yours to ensure we build a better codebase and sharpen each other’s skills.
• Share your knowledge and points of view: We promote knowledge sharing across our teams and count on you to become an active member of one. Experiment with new tools, present your findings, shape our future standards.

Scope and Impact:

• You invent and try to simplify what we do.
• You insist on the highest standards from your team and yourself.
• You have charisma.
• You lead or influence a team.
• You tackle open-ended somewhat ambiguous problems.

What you bring to the table:

• Strong experience in building backend services/APIs. This role specifically is for an engineer with solid experience with Python backend services.
• Strong experience in handling large volume of data and writing ETL processes, transforming data from multiple different sources using languages/tools such as SQL, Apache Airflow, DBT, Databricks.
• Solid experience with system design and architecture.
• Experience with unit and integration tests.
• You are a system design enthusiast and have experience designing and transforming existing systems collaboratively to make them scalable, maintainable and reliable.
• You have a true DevOps mindset and are able to support your team towards becoming true owners of their product/platform.
• You work well with Engineering and Product members and are comfortable building effective relationships with stakeholders outside technology.
• An open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity.

Bonus Points if you:

• Have worked at a scaling startup previously.
• Have experience in successfully transitioning a monolith platform into domain-driven services.

What you’ll get from us:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.
• Remote-first organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive.

Why choose Zepz?

Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect. We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs. We collectively speak over twenty languages. At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization. Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.