Software Engineer - Backend (.NET) at Fairmoney Microfinance Bank (Remote)

FairMoney Nigeria 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: Software Engineer - Backend (.NET)

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

Roles and responsibilities

• 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

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related technical domain
• You have 6+ years of experience in backend software development with C#
• You have 2+ years of experience working in Fintech
• You have 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
• 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
• Pension Plan
• Training & Development
• Paid Time Off

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note
Recruitment Process:

• Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes
• Technical interview with members of the Engineering team for 45-60 minutes