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.
In alignment with its vision, FairMoney is actively constructing the foremost mobile banking platform and point-of-sale (POS) solution tailored for emerging markets. The journey began with the introduction of a digital microcredit application exclusively available on Android and iOS devices. Today, FairMoney has significantly expanded its range of services, encompassing a comprehensive suite of financial products, such as current accounts, savings accounts, debit cards, and state-of-the-art POS solutions designed to meet the needs of both merchants and agents.FairMoney thrives on its diverse workforce, bringing together talent from over 27 nationalities. This multicultural team drives the company’s mission of reshaping financial services for underserved communities.To gain deeper insights into FairMoney’s pivotal role in reshaping Africa’s financial landscape, we invite you to watch informative .
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 an Android and IOS application.
- It communicates with a .Net Core (C#) backend.
- We are hosted on Azure cloud: we use Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, Azure app service, and some other great services that Azure cloud offers.
- Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science, Maths, or related technical domain.
- You have 6+ years of experience in backend software development with C#.
- You have 2+ years of experience working in Fintech.
- You have 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
- You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- You have excellent problem-solving skills and object-oriented design skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience being a part of building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers;
- 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, create technical designs and specifications.
- 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 interview with members of the Engineering team for 45-60 minutes.
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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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