Software Engineer - Backend (Remote) at FairMoney Nigeria

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. We started with a digital microcredit application on Android, and currently roll out additional financial services (current account, savings, debit card) while expanding the product to Western Africa and South-East Asia.

We are recruiting suitable canddiates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer - Backend

Location: Abuja (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• You will be working as a Software Engineer in our Technology Division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Lagos, Bangalore, Paris, Türkiye, and remotely across the globe.
• We are building Engineering centers of excellence across multiple regions and are looking for smart, talented, driven engineers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the core engineering team of a fast-growing fintech poised for more rapid growth in the coming years.

Roles and resposibilities

• Developing high-quality features by working with our Product team to better serve customers.
• Building a platform on which each market can plug its specific features while maintaining a solid common core product.
• Tackling complex financial processes with the right patterns and appropriate solutions.
• Helping drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our customers.
• Being responsible for designing, developing, and deploying medium to large-sized projects.
• Helping define engineering best practices and providing technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team.
• Contributing to continuous improvements to an infrastructure that can handle millions of clients.
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of monitoring, continuous integration, and platform integration.

Our technical stack:

• Our customer-facing product is an Android and IOS application.
• It communicates with a .Net Core (C#) backend.
• We are hosted on Azure cloud: we use Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, Azure app service, and some other great services that Azure cloud offers.

Requirements
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s / Master's Degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related technical domain.
• You have 3+ years of experience in backend software development with C#.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and object-oriented design skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience being a part of building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers;
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations;
• Experience with cloud providers, preferably Azure, alternatively AWS/Azure;
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, create technical designs and specifications.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Pension Plan
• Work From Home
• Training & Development.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.