Technology & Digital Solutions

Senior Platform Engineer

Build and operate payment orchestration and identity infrastructure for regulated financial institutions across Africa.

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Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Arrangement
Hybrid
Contract
Full-time
Posted
1 Aug 2026

Responsibilities

  • Design and ship services in a distributed, event-driven platform handling regulated financial workloads.

  • Own reliability for your services end to end, including on-call rotation and incident review.

  • Partner with client engineering teams during capability transfer phases of transformation programmes.

  • Contribute to architectural decisions on data residency, auditability and degradation behaviour.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years building production backend systems, ideally in payments, banking or identity.

  • Strong grounding in distributed systems, idempotency and failure modes under partial availability.

  • Experience operating services against regulatory audit requirements.

  • Fluency in one of Go, Java, TypeScript or Rust with willingness to work across the stack.

Our hiring process

  1. 1. Application review — within five business days.
  2. 2. Introductory conversation with the talent team (30 minutes).
  3. 3. Technical or case discussion with the hiring manager.
  4. 4. Panel with divisional leadership and a cross-division peer.
  5. 5. Offer, references and start date.

N.O Group is an equal opportunity employer. We assess candidates on capability and do not discriminate on any protected ground.