Site Reliability Engineer

Who is pawaPay

pawaPay is a pan-African fintech enabling local payment channels used by the mass market to both local and international merchants. We operate in a highly regulated, partner-driven environment and are in scale-up mode, with ambitious growth plans across multiple African markets.

Our vision is to simplify business for companies and consumers in Africa and we do that by ensuring that payments simply work, at scale, despite fragmentation and complexity that exists on the Continent.

Through our payments API we already facilitate over 4 million transactions a day across 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.  We are the largest PSP on the Continent for the processing of mobile money payments, and have positioned ourselves well to lead the payment space as it grows over the next decade.

At pawaPay, there is an entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a modern and professional working culture. The fast-paced, ever-changing environment will suit someone who can adapt and think on their feet. In return, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a group of dedicated and smart individuals working towards the same mission. We work as a remote team and have team members in Europe, UK, Africa and Asia

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work with and learn from industry specialists on providing a scalable cloud solution while getting challenged to reach your full potential.

The role is open for applications across EMEA.

Your main duties will include:

• Leverage automation and code where appropriate;

• Troubleshoot complex distributed environments pertaining to connectivity and application performance and monitoring tools;

• Cloud resource implementation;

• Provide technical and business knowledge support to the team;

• Document and diagram automated solutions in the cloud;

• Be on-call for infrastructure issues.

You are a perfect fit if you have:

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering;

• Deep knowledge of AWS Cloud, for example using: EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, ECR, Client VPN, ACM, Secret Manager, etc; 

• Strong understanding of: Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm;

• Experience in any of Bash, Python, Golang;

• Experience with writing Kubernetes Operators is considered a strong advantage;

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English;

• Solutions oriented mindset with excellent problem solving skills;

• Proactiveness and the willingness to take initiative.

Why pawaPay?

• Help improve financial access in Africa

• Being part of an amazing team that shapes company’s culture as a great place to be

• An ambitious, talented, and diverse team who always has your back

• We grow fast, and you will grow fast with us

• Competitive remuneration

• 35 days of paid leave per year (inclusive of public holidays) and more.