Senior Software Engineer - Frontend
Description
FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria & India, 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 here
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 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
Recruitment Process
Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes.
Technical with frontend focus + culture fit interview
FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria & India, 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 here
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 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
Recruitment Process
Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes.
Technical with frontend focus + culture fit interview