Software Engineer Backend (Golang)

FairMoney is a creditled 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 fastgrowing fintech poised for more rapid growth in the coming years.

We are looking forward you to working on:

• Developing highquality 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 worldclass experience for our customers.
• Being responsible for designing, developing, and deploying medium to largesized 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 customerfacing product is an Android application.
  • It communicates with a Ruby on Rails or Golang backend (sidekiq, rspec).
  • Our ML pipeline is an APIflask (Python).
  • We are hosted on AWS: we use Elastic Beanstalk, an RDS Aurora Mysql database, S3, Kinesis (datastream, firehose).
  • Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer).
  • We have automated tests that run on Travis.

  • Requirements

    • 6+ years of experience in backend software development mostly with Golang (andor JavaC++).
    • 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 selftaught 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.

    • Benefits

      • 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 1530 minutes.
        • Technical interview with backend focused.
        • Stakeholder interview with our tech leaders.