FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank 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. The company has offices in France, Nigeria, Germany, Latvia, the UK, Türkiye, and India.
You will be working as a Software Engineer 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.
Watch the way FairMoney is building Africa's money story
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 a React Native, Android and IOS on mobile.
- We use React, Next.js, and Typescript for web.
- .Net Core (C#) backend.
- We are hosted on Azure cloud
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related technical domain.
- 5+ years of professional experience in React, React Native and Next.JS
- 2+ years of experience working in Fintech.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills.
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of core JavaScript, and Typescript concepts.
- Experience with writing automated tests (eg- Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, enzyme, cypress)
- Strong knowledge of testing best practices and understanding of CI/CD.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- You have excellent problem-solving skills and object-oriented design skills.
- Teamwork player used to pair programming and peer reviews.
Preferred Qualifications
- Full-stack experience is a big plus.
- Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
- Micro-services experience is very much preferred.
- Expert 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, and create technical designs and specifications.
- Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, productive software engineers.
- Experience influencing software engineering best practices within your team.
Note: Candidates with strong React Native experience will be given special consideration during the recruitment process. We believe that your expertise in React Native will play a crucial role in our mobile banking platform's success and enable us to provide a world-class experience for our customers.
- Private Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Pension Plan
- Work From Home
- Training & Development
Recruitment Process
- Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes.
- Technical with frontend focus + culture fit interview
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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