FairMoney is a credit-led mobile banking platform for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria and raised close to €50m from global investors like Tiger Global, DST & Flourish Ventures. You will be working as an Engineering Manager as a part of our Technology & Engineering division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Nigeria, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey and remotely across the globe.
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.
We are looking forward you to working on:
- 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.
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 Elastic Beanstalk, an RDS Aurora Mysql database, S3, Kinesis (data-stream, firehose).
- Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer).
- We have automated tests that run on Travis.
- 6+ years of experience in backend software development mostly with Go-lang (and/or Java/C++).
- 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- You have an Engineering or University Diploma in computer science (we are also open to self-taught with 5 years of experience in computer engineering).
- You are able to code in a backend languages (Python, Java, Javascript, Golang, C#).
- Understanding of AWS or GCP cloud providers.
- Understanding the architecture and function of multiple technology teams working together to build systems.
- 20 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Training & Development budget
- Paid company business trips (not mandatory)
- Fully Remote, Work from Anywhere (timezone must have partial overlap with CET)
Recruitment Process
- HR call 15-30 minutes.
- Technical interview with back-end focused.
- Stakeholder interview with our tech leaders.
Top Skills
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.
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