Backend Engineer

IT
Lagos
September 9, 2026
Full Time Permanent
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Job Description

PebbleScore is an AI-powered credit scoring platform focused on improving how repayment risk is assessed in emerging markets. We work with lenders to provide real-time, data-driven insights, while empowering individuals with greater visibility into how they are evaluated. We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team and support the development of PebbleScore’s behavioral scoring engine. In this role, you will contribute to the systems that ingest, process, and expose behavioral data used in credit risk analysis. You will work closely with data scientists and product teams to ensure that our backend infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and designed with real-world financial use cases in mind.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: ₦250,000 monthly

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain backend services for ingesting and processing behavioral event data
  • Build and support feature pipelines used in credit risk modeling
  • Develop and maintain secure, well-documented APIs for internal and external use
  • Ensure data quality, traceability, and consistency across systems
  • Collaborate with data science teams to support model deployment and iteration
  • Contribute to system performance, reliability, and scalability as usage grows

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Key Requirements
  • Strong experience in backend development using Python (preferred), Go, or Java
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL
  • Experience designing and working with event-driven or asynchronous systems
  • Familiarity with RESTful API design and backend best practices
  • Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
  • Strong attention to data accuracy, security, and system reliability

Desirable Experience

  • Exposure to financial services, lending, fraud, or risk-related systems
  • Experience supporting or deploying machine learning models in production
  • Familiarity with data pipelines, feature engineering, or analytics infrastructure
  • Experience working with large or complex datasets, particularly in emerging markets

 

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and send a brief overview of a backend system or project they have worked on and their role in it to hi@pebblescore.com

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