Senior Engineer, Marketplaces at Chipper Cash

Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Engineer, Marketplace

Location: Nigeria

About The Role

• As a Senior Software Engineer on Marketplaces, you'd be responsible for scaling out the Airtime, Bills & Data services with an event driven core infrastructure to multiple countries globally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Be An Owner: Own management of the Chipper Airtime, Bills & Data infrastructure
• Coordinate with multiple partners, telcos and MNOs across the world to scale our airtime, bills and data services for all our customers
• Work with stakeholders to define and set Airtime, Bills & Data roadmap for your team.
• Build reliable, failsafe systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Expose APIs to internal systems that rely on Chipper's Airtime, Bills and Data systems
• Think critically about how to best scale the infrastructure to serve the next 100m+ users on the platform
• Proactively seek out, and find solutions for any potential security vulnerabilities within the application infrastructure

What You Should Have

• Limitless curiosity, persistence and a desire to get things done
• Ability to work autonomously, in ambiguity and collaboratively
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Worked on systems where data consistency and availability is required
• Demonstrated technical initiative on previous projects
• Experience integrating and maintaining 3rd Party API integrations

Great to have:

• Managing Node.js backend services at scale
• Payment / finance focused technology experience
• Working with event driven microservices

About Our Tech Stack:

• Node.js + Typescript service-based architecture
• React Native Android/iOS application
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform
• Fully automated CI/CD using Semaphore, Heroku CI, and Github
• Application monitoring with Datadog, Logz.io, and Amplitude
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting

Application Closing Date
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