Staff Engineer, Anti Financial Crimes (AFC) (Remote) 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 of:

Job Title: Staff Engineer, Anti Financial Crimes (AFC)

Location: Nigeria (Remote)

The Team

• Our Compliance Systems are at the heart of what we do at Chipper. Fighting financial crime - Keeping the bad guys out and good guys safe is incredibly important as we scale Chipper to 100m+ users across the Continent.
• As a Lead Software Engineer, Compliance, you'll work across various core areas of financial crime compliance such as Know Your Customer/Business (KYC/KYB), Watchlist Screening, Anti-Fraud prevention and detection, Transaction Monitoring, and Regulatory Reporting.

What You Will Be Doing

• Be An Owner: Own technical management of the Chipper Compliance Infrastructure
• Automate lots of manual checks and processes for maximum team efficiency
• Leverage AI/ML capabilities alongside the Intelligence Team to enhance and automate controls
• Digitize user interactions, controls and processes
• Build reliable, failsafe systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Ensure data quality and completeness of user records
• Think critically about how to best scale the infrastructure to serve the next 100m+ users on the platform

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 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

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
• Experience working on on systems where data consistency and availability is required
• Demonstrated technical initiative on previous projects
• Experience managing Node.js backend services at scale
• Experience with payment and/or finance-focused technology
• Working with event driven microservices, ideally

Application Closing Date
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