Backend lead engineer

Scale is a Card Issuing Orchestration platform — building the infrastructure that lets banks, fintechs and non-banks launch and run card programs across African markets, including Zambia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon and beyond. We recently expanded our Mastercard partnership across sub-Saharan Africa and are scaling quickly. We're a small team building serious infrastructure. We care about our people, their growth, and giving them exposure to work they wouldn't get anywhere else. About the role We're hiring a Backend Lead Engineer to own our backend from spec to build to production to scale, across all our markets. This is a hands-on role. You'll architect and build, not just oversee. You'll work directly with product, ops, and our