Backend Engineer

About the Role

We’re building a modern Sales Assistant for B2B teams in Africa—and we need a backend engineer who can do more than just write code. We need someone who cares about building great systems, ships fast, and treats product quality like a personal mission.

You’ll be one of the core builders of our backend, designing APIs, managing databases, improving performance, and contributing to architecture decisions. This is not a ticket-taking role. It’s a high-impact position where your decisions shape the product.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build backend systems using PHP (Laravel).
• Create and maintain RESTful APIs that power our frontend and integrations.
• Manage databases and write efficient queries that scale with usage.
• Work closely with product, design, and frontend teams to turn ideas into working features.
• Review code, share knowledge, and help the team improve engineering standards.
• Monitor performance, debug issues, and implement improvements continuously.
• Things will break. You take ownership, fix fast, and learn faster.
• Take full ownership of backend features from idea to deployment.

Who You Are

• Experienced – You’ve built backend systems in production, ideally in a startup or SaaS environment.
• Skilled in Laravel – You’re comfortable with modern PHP and can build solid systems in Laravel.
• Pragmatic – You know when to move fast and when to slow down for quality and stability.
• Autonomous – You don’t wait to be told what to do. You take ownership and push things forward.
• Collaborative – You work well with others, communicate clearly, and put the team before ego.
• Well-Rounded – You’re familiar with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps basics, and integrating third-party APIs.
• Curious – You like to learn, experiment, and improve continuously.

Why Join Us

• Salary in Naira: Competitive pay in local currency.
• Health Insurance: We care about your well-being.
• Remote Work: Enjoy flexibility in where and how you work.
• Stock Options: Share in our success as we grow together.

How We Recruit

• Apply: Fill out our application form. Our team will review your information to assess fit.
• Interview with CTO: Next, you'll speak with our CTO to dive deeper into your skills, approach, and alignment with the team.
• Interview with CEO: If our CTO thinks you are a fit, you'll chat with our CEO to get to know you better and share the bigger vision.
• Offer: If everything goes well, we’ll extend an offer.

If you’re a builder who wants to work on hard problems with a small, ambitious team, this is your shot.