Senior Full Stack Engineer
TLDR
Contribute to a small engineering team building a payment infrastructure handling millions of euros daily, with React frontend, Golang APIs, and AI-driven development practices.
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 APIs 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
Luo is a rapidly growing fintech that streamlines FX and cross-border payments for African businesses, enabling them to pay international suppliers with speed, transparency, and competitive advantages over traditional methods. As a leading player in West and Central Africa, we're enhancing our treasury infrastructure to meet the complexities of our expanding operations across the continent.