You will be working as an Engineering Manager as a part of our Technology & Engineering division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Nigeria, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey and remotely across the globe.
We are growing Engineering organization to excellence across multiple regions and 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 in a business unit, we are looking for an engineering manager that has come ideally from Backend software engineering career. The role is remote.
Achieve:
Scaling and leading our globally distributed software engineering teams (Backend).
Putting processes in place to insure 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. Look 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.
- 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.
- 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 15-30 minutes.
- Leadership interview with our tech leaders.
- Technical interview with back-end focused.
Top Skills
What We Do
FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. Our goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike.
In our key market; Nigeria, FairMoney is currently the Most downloaded fintech app in Nigeria with over 10 million downloads and the #1 digital bank in Nigeria.
FairMoney offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans 24/7, investment products, savings, payments, and cards directly via its mobile app.
We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 6 million users.
We're backed by international investors and have raised a total of $89.9M in funding, to support our development.
FairMoney is unique thanks to its international exposure (with offices on 3 continents) and its impact-driven mission: we bring financial inclusion to underbanked people in emerging markets!
We are a team of close to 600 people, and for most of the positions, it's possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bangalore, Lagos, and Riga.
We value candidates who embrace our company values:
• Growth Mindset – We believe in the power of a Growth Mindset, not fixed or static.
• Big Plans, Bigger Ambitions - We make big plans, and have even Bigger Ambitions. We are here to build massive scale and drive the fintech revolution across Africa.
• Talent has no passport - We believe that Talent Has No Passport. While opportunity may not be evenly distributed across the world, talent is.
• Start with the Client – We Empathize with our users to optimize our impact. Many of us don’t live where our customers do - we must go in-depth to understand their pain points.
Discover our other values during your discussions with the team.
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