FairMoney Microfinance Bank is the number 1 most downloaded fintech app in Nigeria. With over 10,000 daily loan disbursements, and over 5 million users enjoying banking, savings, and investment services, FairMoney helps the average Nigerian access finance tools to take control of both their life and their finances.
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Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering of our business unit, we are looking for an Engineering Manager ideally from Backend Software Engineering.
To Achieve:
Scaling and leading our globally distributed software engineering teams (Backend).
Putting processes in place to ensure high quality and timely delivery of team engineering objectives.
Managing and contributing at times in our quest to build scalable infrastructure whilst limiting technical debt at all times. Looking at engineering solutions through the lens of efficiency, quality, and velocity.
Our Tech Stack:
Cloud providers: AWS, GCP.
Backend: Primarily Golang. Some Ruby rails.
Architecture: Containerised Micro-service.
Android Application: Kotlin, KMP.
iOS Application: Swift, KMP.
Configuration management: Terraform, Kubernetes.
CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD.
Requirements
6 - 8 years of experience in backend development.
You have one significant work experience managing and leading a software engineering team.
You have an Engineering or University Diploma in computer science (we are also open to self-taught with 5 years experience in computer engineering).
You are able to code in a backend language (Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python, Java, Javascript, C#).
Understanding of AWS or GCP cloud providers.
Understanding the overall architecture and function of how multiple technology teams work together to build systems.
You excel at troubleshooting.
You are still hands-on and have experience in architecting scalable solutions.