Software Engineer – Frontend at FairMoney Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Software Engineer – Frontend

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Category: Engineering
Job type: Full time

About the Role

• 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

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.
• 3+ years of professional experience in React, React Native, and Next. JS.
• 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

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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.
• Interview with key stakeholders for 45-60 minutes.