Senior Software Engineer (Team Lead)- Lagos

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets.
For most of the positions, it’s possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bengaluru, Lagos, Riga.

We offer digital financial services to underbanked people in emerging markets. We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 200k active users.

We’re backed by international investors and raised over €15m to support our development. We are a team of close to 200 people between Paris, Lagos, Bengaluru, Riga.

Our values

Start with the client 📊
We are passionate, optimize for our users, care for our impact

Own, don’t rent 💥
We strive for ownership and don’t rest until what we own is accomplished

Scientist mindset 👩‍🔬
We solve large challenges, break them into small pieces, make well reasoned conclusions

Churn 9-5 🎯
Work should be something we love and embrace * that we measure in tasks achieved, not hours completed

Fly High - Fly Low 🙌
We fly high to make big and bold plans - strategize
We fly low and put our hands in the dirt to ensure the detailed high quality output of us and those that we manage

70/30 ⚡
We value execution speed and making decisions with 70% of the available data and a 30% margin of error over 100% accuracy and being blocked by over-analysis

Direct Feedback 🤝
We don’t carry frustration with us but give direct feedback to our colleagues regularly to make sure we all improve and get better

Radical Focus 🔎
Our mantra is to start with the question, “What should not be done this week to increase the focus on the things that really matter

Growth Mindset 📈
We believe in the power of the growth mindsets versus fixed mindset. Everyone is given the starting point that can be exponentially improved by hard work, curiosity and constant iterations on a given problem through learning from failures and feedback from others.

Talent has NO passport 👩‍💼👨‍💼
While opportunities might not be evenly distributed across the world, talent is and we value and embrace adding different cultures, nationalities and genders to our team.

You will be working fully remotely as our Senior Software Engineer in our Tech Division which is now composed of 30 people worldwide. We prefer you to be based in Lagos, and you will be working with our engineering team based in Paris & India.

Your mission is to develop new features for our customers based in emerging countries in order to improve the services of our Android application. Your goal is to build the new digital bank for emerging countries.

We are waiting for you to work on :

• Developing high quality features 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 provide technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team;
• Contributing to continuous improvements to an infrastructure which can handle over millions of clients;
• Analysing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of monitoring, continuous integration and platform integration.

🔧 Our technical Stack

• Our customer product is an Android application;
• It communicates with a Ruby on Rails backend (sidekiq, rspec);
• Our ML pipeline is an API-flask (Python);
• We are hosted on AWS: we use Elastic Beanstalk, a RDS Aurora mysql database, S3, Kinesis (data-stream, firehose);
• Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer);
• We have automated tests that run on Travis.

• You have >5 years of experience in backend,
• You must have led a team of engineers for no less than 2 years - also handled mentoring and onboarding of new software developers,
• You must have led a technical project from specification to delivery,
• You are able to code in a backend languague (Ruby on Rails or Python or node.js or Go or Php or Java…)
• You have knowledge/ experience with AWS or GCP cloud providers,
• You are able to go to the most efficient solution,
• You know how to take initiatives.

• Technical Test - to ascertain that your wealthy experience aligns with what we need;
• Technical Interview & Peer Programming with 2 Senior Engineers in the team;
• Last call with Titi, the HR Manager.