Senior Software Engineer – Frontend (Remote) at FairMoney Nigeria


FairMoney Nigeria

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. We started with a digital microcredit application on Android, and currently roll out additional financial services (current account, savings, debit card) while expanding the product to Western Africa and South-East Asia.

We are recruiting suitable canddiates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Frontend

Location: Abuja (Remote)
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Engineering

Job Description

  • 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.

Roles and resposibilities

  • 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 application.
  • We also use react, next js, and typescript.
  • .Net Core (C#) backend.
  • We are hosted on Azure cloud.

Requirements
Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related technical domain.
  • 4+ 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:

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Private Health Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Pension Plan
  • Work From Home
  • Training & Development.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Recruitment Process

  • Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes.
  • Technical with frontend focus + culture fit interview