E # **Senior Back End Engineer** ## **Elife Transfer** ## **Engineering & Technology** Today Rest of Nigeria (Nationwide) Confidential ### **Share link** Share on WhatsApp Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via SMS ### **Job descriptions & requirements** *Job Title: Senior/Staff Backend Engineer** *Location: Fully Remote** *Company Overview** Founded in 2019, Elife Transfer is a fast-growing startup headquartered in San Francisco, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley. We are an all-in-one global ground transportation marketplace, enabling travelers to book airport transfers, ride-hailing, shared rides, private cars and rail tickets. Trusted by over 40 million travelers across 182+ countries, we are rapidly scaling to become the world’s go-to platform for seamless, end-to-end ground mobility. *Key Responsibilities:** Design, develop, and maintain backend applications for customers worldwide. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend, backend, testing, and application design, to deliver integrated solutions. Build and optimize Python/MySQL backends hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enhance, maintain, and troubleshoot existing software applications to ensure performance and reliability. Write clean, highly scalable, and testable code following best practices. Identify, analyze, and resolve programming bugs and performance bottlenecks. Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge sharing across the team. *Requirements:** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). Expertise in distributed systems, real-time data processing, and low-latency architectures. Strong Python proficiency or deep expertise in Go/Java/Scala/C++ with the ability to work effectively in Python Hands-on experience with geospatial technologies (e.g., PostG