Backend Engineer (Remote) at FairMoney

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 to fill the position below:

Job Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full time
Category: Engineering

Description 

• As a software engineer at our company, you will have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on the future of banking. Our team is comprised of individuals with a passion for innovation and a drive to deliver the best possible experience to our customers.
• If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, then we want you to join our team!

Responsibilities 
We are looking forward for you to work on:

• Developing high-quality features 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 provide 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.
• Developing high-quality features 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 provide 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 application;
• It communicates with a Ruby on Rails or Go-lang backend (sidekiq, rspec);
• Our ML pipeline is an API-flask (Python);
• We are hosted on AWS: we use Kubernetes, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, an RDS Aurora Mysql and PostgreSQL databases as well as DynamoDB, S3, Kinesis (data-stream, firehose);
• Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer);
• We run our CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions.

Basic Qualifications

• You have 4+ years of experience in backend software development with Golang
• You have good verbal and written communication skills.
• You have good 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.
• Basic understanding of Micro-services.
• Experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS, alternatively GCP/Azure.
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and create technical designs and specifications.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.