Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Engineering
Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Your Mission
- We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Engineering team and help continue our amazing growth trajectory.
- You’ll be responsible for developing and maturing Chipper’s infrastructure and cloud footprint. You will be leading initiatives that will allow us to scale our platform as quickly and safely as possible.
What You Will Be Doing
- Design, develop, and maintain Chipper’s infrastructure in a repeatable, reliable way as we grow and scale to support more countries and features
- Communicate and work directly with internal technology partners. Provision and maintain infrastructure that supports their technical roadmaps.
- Analyze technical problems, design and document solutions, and champion their adoption
- Review designs and development done by other engineers, proactively providing guidance and suggestions to improve solutions
- 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, and more
What You Should Have
- Multiple years of experience designing and developing infrastructure for high TPM platforms. Experience in AWS is a big plus.
- Experience integrating with third party technology partners
- 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 trust and ability to operate independently without micromanagement
- A kind, compassionate, empathetic, and inclusive mindset
- We look for well-rounded engineers of all backgrounds. Exceptional candidates may have experience working in cloud operations, financial technology, leading complex projects with multiple engineers, and working in a modern infrastructure as code environment such as Terraform
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
Infrastructure:
- Partly on both AWS and Heroku
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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