Software Engineer, Network and Partner API at Chipper Cash Full Time

Job Title: Software Engineer, Network and Partner API

Location: Nigeria

Job Details

• We’re looking for a mid-level Software Engineer to join the Network and Partner API team and help continue our amazing growth trajectory.
• Chipper is more than just a mobile wallet, it’s how people send money home to their grandparents for medicine, how parents send money to their children for school books, it’s how the African continent gets connected to the economy worldwide.
• Our products and business are growing rapidly and we need innovative thinkers and gritty explorers to help us pave the way in exciting areas like cryptocurrency, cross-border transactions, and expanding opportunities for generational wealth through access to the stock market.

Your Mission

• You’ll be responsible for developing and maturing Chipper’s Network and Partner API.
• We’re expanding our B2B integrations, and you’ll be working directly with some of our clients, partners, and developer relations managers to define requirements, design solutions, scope work, and develop secure and reliable API endpoints for our partners to develop against to integrate Chipper into their businesses.

What You Will Be Doing

• Design, develop, and maintain Chipper’s B2B API offerings
• Build out new features and products to help grow and scale our Network and Partner APIs
• Communicate and work directly with our B2B partners to gather requirements, scope work, and find unique solutions to unique problems
• Analyze technical problems, design and document solutions, and champion their adoption
• Review technical specifications and code from other engineers, proactively providing guidance and suggestions to improve individuals and systems
• Improve, promote and maintain our coding and quality standards and continue to raise the bar on our engineering practices
• Pair, mentor, and learn with and from other engineers on the team and wider engineering organization
• Collaborate and work with a distributed, diverse, and talented group of people across engineering, product, design, operations, growth, and more
• Foster a welcoming and inclusive environment that empowers people to grow and succeed
• Help out in other areas as needed, such as with issue resolution, incidents and investigations, engineering wide initiatives, and other high impact work
• Have the opportunity to work cross-functionally and in multiple domains such as airtime, bill payments, money movement, mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, and more.

What You Should Have

• Three or more years of experience designing and developing backend engineering systems
• Three or more years of experience developing API endpoints using typescript and node.js that other users consume
• Great communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with other engineers and product managers
• Ability to think and reason about technical systems and problems, and come up with solutions that are simple yet performant and mature
• A high degree of collaboration, autonomy, responsibility, and initiative. You will be part of a team environment that rewards and expects supportive autonomy, where you are supported and given the trust and ability to operate independently without micromanagement
• A kind, compassionate, empathetic, and inclusive mindset
• We look for well-rounded software engineers of all backgrounds. Exceptional candidates may have experience working in API development, financial technology, leading complex projects with multiple engineers, and working in a modern JavaScript engineering environment.

About Our Tech Stack

• Fullstack Typescript
• Fully automated CI/CD using Semaphore and Github Unit testing with Jest/Mocha.

Mobile:

• React Native – Android / iOS application
• Monitoring with BugSnag & Amplitude
• Global state management with Redux.
• Chipper UI design system powered by: Styled Components & StoryBook.

Backend:

• Node.js – service based architecture
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform
• Monitoring with Datadog & Logz.io
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis.
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting.

Remuneration
At Chipper Cash we prioritize people. We offer competitive salary and benefits including paid time off that you’ll actually be encouraged to take, equity in the company, outstanding health and wellness benefits, generous parental leave, retirement matching, a welcoming and inclusive culture that embraces the open-minded traveler with a love for humanity and all our differences, and much more.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.