Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Luo

Luo is one of the fastest-growing FX and cross-border payments companies in Africa. We help African businesses pay their international suppliers faster, more transparently, and more competitively than traditional solutions.

After becoming a leading player in a few markets in record time, we are looking to grow our engineering team and keep building the financial infrastructure for FX and cross-border payments in Africa.

Role overview

You will join a small team of experienced engineers and contribute to a diverse range of internal tools and customer-facing products. Your solutions will help grow and run a payment infrastructure that processes millions of euros of transactions per day.

This role requires a customer-centric mindset and the ability to communicate clearly with both engineers and non-engineers in order to reach sound technical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Ship products to customers and internal teams (payment operations, treasury management, FX trading, compliance).

• Build React web applications.

• Design intuitive user interface.

• Design and implement HTTP API in Golang.

• Leverage AI-driven development practices.

What we are looking for

• 6+ years of experience building web products.

• Experience building APIs in Golang, Typescript or any other statically typed language.

• Experience working in a small, high-paced technical team.

• Product builder and customer-centric mindset.

• Excellent written and verbal communication.

• Ability to navigate trade-offs and balance effort vs impact.

Systems built at Luo

• Payment platform for businesses in Africa.

• Internal tools for payment operators, treasury analysts and FX traders.

• Use of AI to OCR and approve invoices.

• KYC onboarding flows.

• Anti-Money Laundering and Transaction Monitoring systems.

• Core Banking System and Ledger System.

• Payout automations with banking partners.

Tech stack

React, Typescript, Golang, Postgres, Docker, Gitlab, GCP, Cloudflare

Start date

Immediately.

Location

Paris / Remote