FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. The company was launched in
2017, operates in Nigeria & India, and raised close to €50m from global investors like Tiger
Global, DST & Flourish Ventures. The company has offices in France, Nigeria, Germany,
Latvia, the UK, Türkiye, and India.
You will be working as a Software Engineer - Android 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.
FairMoney is a 100% digital bank that is revolutionizing the traditional banking industry.
Our mission is to make financial services accessible and convenient for everyone through the
use of technology. We are seeking talented Software Engineers - Android to join our mobile
team and help us bring our vision to life.
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 to you working on:
- Create, develop, and test new features; across the entire SDLC
- Maintain high-quality standards across all areas including code quality
- Knowledge sharing & mentor junior developers
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
Requirements
- 4+ years of professional experience in Android native development.
- 4+ years Coding in Kotlin/Java
- 2+ years experience in pair programming, TDD, code reviews
- 2+ years Unit Tests, Instrumented Tests, and End to End Tests
- Ability to create clean, efficient and high-quality code
- You are familiar with multi-module apps
- You are comfortable with Clean architecture and using Coroutines (or RxJava)
Soft Skills:
- Driven by impact
- Great team player & communicator, who at the same time can also work
- autonomously
- Proactive and hard-working - "Get it done" attitude
- Will to over-reach objectives
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Training & Development
- Remote work
- Paid Time Off
- HR Screening: 30 minutes
- Hiring Manager Interview: 30 minutes
- Technical interview with the Engineering team: 60 minutes.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional experience in Android native development.
- 4+ years coding in Kotlin/Java.
- 2+ years experience in pair programming, TDD, code reviews.
- 2+ years Unit Tests, Instrumented Tests, and End to End Tests.
- Ability to create clean, efficient and high-quality code.
- Familiarity with multi-module apps.
- Comfortable with Clean Architecture.
- Comfortable using Coroutines or RxJava.
What We Do
FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. Our goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike. In our key market; Nigeria, FairMoney is currently the Most downloaded fintech app in Nigeria with over 10 million downloads and the #1 digital bank in Nigeria. FairMoney offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans 24/7, investment products, savings, payments, and cards directly via its mobile app. We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 6 million users. We're backed by international investors and have raised a total of $89.9M in funding, to support our development. FairMoney is unique thanks to its international exposure (with offices on 3 continents) and its impact-driven mission: we bring financial inclusion to underbanked people in emerging markets! We are a team of close to 600 people, and for most of the positions, it's possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bangalore, Lagos, and Riga. We value candidates who embrace our company values: • Growth Mindset – We believe in the power of a Growth Mindset, not fixed or static. • Big Plans, Bigger Ambitions - We make big plans, and have even Bigger Ambitions. We are here to build massive scale and drive the fintech revolution across Africa. • Talent has no passport - We believe that Talent Has No Passport. While opportunity may not be evenly distributed across the world, talent is. • Start with the Client – We Empathize with our users to optimize our impact. Many of us don’t live where our customers do - we must go in-depth to understand their pain points. Discover our other values during your discussions with the team. https://apply.workable.com/fairmoney/?lng=en
