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Backend Engineer at FairMoney

FairMoneyLagos, Nigeria Software Development
Full Time

FairMoney is a platform that helps people access instant loans within 5 minutes through our android app.
From the corners of Kano, Nigeria to the quarters of Chennai in India, we’re connecting people to prosperity by taking an effective financial product to them. We’re giving them the loans they need to fuel their dreams and a payment plan that allows them to make their vision a reality. 

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!

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.

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