Job Vacancies at FairMoney

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. We started with a digital microcredit application on Android, and currently roll out additional financial services (current account, savings, debit card) while expanding the product to Western Africa and South-East Asia.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• You will be working as our Senior Software Engineer in our Tech Division which is now composed of 34 people worldwide (and growing)
• You will be based in Lagos and working with our engineering team based in Paris
• 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 new features (ex: wallet),
• Decreasing the time spent fixing and maintaining already shipped features,
• Improving an infrastructure which can handle over 2M clients.

Our technical Stack:

• Our customer product is an android application;
• It communicates with a Ruby on Rails backend (sikekiq, 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.

Requirements

• You have >5 years of experience in backend,
• You know how to handle a project from specification to delivery – you also handled mentoring and onboarding of new software developers,
• 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.
• You must have a solid track record of achievements (academic, professional, and/or sport);
• You have worked / be working in the FinTech industry, and on emerging markets is a plus;
• You must have an entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to get hands dirty at all times;
• You must be a problem solver with a data-driven and KPI-oriented approach to maximize the efficiency of all the operations;
• You must be curious in nature.

Benefits

• Be part of an international team of engineers
• Opportunity to build the future in financial services
• Attractive salary
• Flexible working conditions (remote friendly)
• Quick growth opportunity
• Great culture.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• You will be working as our Senior Product Manager in our product team made of 4 people: our CPO Nicolas (founder), Sid & Xiaoyu (business analytics) and Nkem (user research manager in Nigeria)
• You will be based in Nigeria, Lagos at our office
• Your mission will be to improve our financial services for our users in emerging markets (loans, and other future financial services)

We are waiting from you to work on:

• Defining the needs of our clients located in emerging countries in order to define a product vision;
• Coordinating a team of designers and developers, preparing the product specifications and following their implementation;
• Measuring the impact of our produced work.

Preferred Experience

• You have a solid track record of achievement (academic, professional, and / or sport)
• You have 4-6 years of experience in product management or as a technical founder in a fast-growing tech B2C startup company. FinTech is a plus. Focus on emerging markets is a plus.
• You have studied business administration, economics or engineering at a top tier university.
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to get hands dirty at all times.
• You are a problem solver with a data-driven and KPI-oriented approach to maximize the efficiency of all the operations, using such tools as SQL, Python and Excel
• You have experience with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and Slack.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online