FairMoney is a credit-led 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. We are growing our Engineering Team across multiple regions and we are looking for smart, talented, and driven engineering leaders. This is a unique opportunity to lead one of our core engineering teams at a time of fast growth. Role: 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 Benefits 25 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors Remote (timezone must have significant overlap with CET) Training & Development budget Paid company business trips Recruitment Process HR call for 15-30 minutes Leadership interview with our tech leaders Technical interview with back-end focused
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