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Accra, Ghana
Backend Developer
Accra, GhanaFull-timeMid-levelOn-site
Zof AI is hiring for this role in Accra, Ghana. This is a full-time opportunity for candidates who want to contribute directly to the development of ambitious AI products in a high-performance environment.
Daily hands-on use of AI coding agents to design, build, and debug backend systems is required.
Compensation
GHS 6,500-13,000 / month
Plus meaningful equity

• Plus full living package (housing, meals, equipment, and wellness, where applicable)
  

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Zof AI is seeking a Backend Developer to own the services, APIs, and data layer that our agent fleets run on. This role covers job orchestration and queueing for long-running agent runs, Postgres schema and query performance, and the storage paths for the evidence and validation artifacts every fix we ship depends on. If you have worked as a Backend Software Engineer, API Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Distributed Systems Engineer, this is that discipline at Zof AI. The ideal candidate writes clear, well-tested services, reasons carefully about failure and state, and treats throughput, correctness, and cost as everyday engineering constraints.
Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the services and APIs our agent fleets run on.
• Build the job orchestration and queueing that keeps long-running agent work moving.
• Own Postgres schema design, migrations, and query performance as data grows.
• Ship the storage and retrieval paths for the evidence and traces every agent run produces.
• Instrument services so failures are observable, debuggable, and recoverable.
• Harden reliability with testing, retries, idempotency, and backpressure under real load.
• Partner with product and AI engineers to turn agent behavior into stable interfaces.
• Own backend systems from design through production.
  

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping backend services in production.
• Strong software engineering foundation.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, ideally Postgres.
• Familiarity with APIs, queues, and asynchronous job processing.
• Ability to debug performance and correctness issues in running systems.
• Habit of proving your work with tests and evidence before it ships.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment.
  

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Postgres, or similar technologies.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or streaming pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD.
• Experience supporting AI or agent workloads in production.
  

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What we provide in Accra

• Housing support or provided housing, where applicable
• Private chef and meals, where applicable
• Laundry and cleaning support
• MacBook Pro
• Premium AI development tools
• Cursor Ultra
• Claude Code Ultra
• OpenAI Codex Max or equivalent advanced AI tooling
• Focused builder environment
• Basketball court
• Table tennis
• Foosball
• Massage and wellness support
• Fitness and wellness support
  

Benefits noted as "where applicable" may depend on role, location, and final offer terms.
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