Job Title: Intermediate Software Engineer (RCL)
Location: Lagos (Hybrid)
Role Overview
- As an Intermediate Software Engineer (RCL), you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and maintaining reliable backend services that power FairMoney's products and platforms.
- You will work closely with other engineers and cross-functional teams to build scalable backend solutions, design robust APIs, work with relational databases, and ensure high standards of code quality and reliability.
- This is a remote / in-office role, giving you the flexibility to work remotely while also having the option to work from the office.
Key Responsibilities
Backend Development:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services.
- Write clean, maintainable, and production-ready code.
- Build and improve backend services that support FairMoney's financial products.
- Work with backend technologies and programming languages such as Golang and Ruby on Rails (RoR).
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve technical issues.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
API Design & Integration:
- Design, develop, and maintain secure and scalable APIs.
- Ensure APIs are well-structured, documented, reliable, and easy to consume.
- Integrate backend services with internal and external systems.
- Consider performance, security, scalability, and maintainability when designing APIs.
Relational Databases:
- Design and work with relational database schemas.
- Work with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Write efficient SQL queries and optimise database performance.
- Ensure data integrity, consistency, and reliability.
- Identify and resolve database-related performance issues.
- Work with large and growing datasets while considering scalability.
Testing & Quality:
- Write and maintain unit and integration tests for backend services.
- Follow strong testing practices to ensure code reliability and prevent regressions.
- Participate in automated testing and continuous integration processes.
- Take ownership of the quality and reliability of the services you build.
AI-Native Development:
- Use AI-powered development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, debugging, testing, and problem-solving.
- Apply prompt engineering techniques to effectively work with AI tools for software development.
- Stay up to date with emerging AI-assisted software engineering practices and incorporate relevant tools into your workflow.
Collaboration & Ownership:
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and other teams to understand requirements and deliver effective technical solutions.
- Participate in technical planning, design discussions, and architecture decisions.
- Proactively identify technical improvements and contribute to the evolution of FairMoney's engineering practices.
- Take ownership of assigned projects from development through deployment and maintenance.
Requirements
- 3-4 years of professional backend software engineering experience.
- Strong experience building and maintaining backend applications and services.
- Strong experience with backend programming languages such as Golang and/or Ruby on Rails (RoR).
- Solid experience working with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
- Strong understanding and practical experience with API design and development.
- Strong testing discipline, including experience with unit and integration testing.
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, scalable, and well-tested code.
- Good understanding of software engineering principles, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience with Git and modern software development workflows.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.
- Experience working with AI development tools and prompt engineering is a plus.
- Experience with fintech, banking, lending, or other financial products is a plus.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in lending, credit, payments, or another regulated financial domain.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, and asynchronous processing at scale.
- Experience working with high-volume transactional systems.
- Experience with observability and performance monitoring tools.
- Experience working with distributed or highly scalable systems.
- Experience using AI tools as part of day-to-day software development.
Benefits
- Competitive pay.
- Paid annual leave.
- A network of talented colleagues.
- Remote / in-office work flexibility.
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, international team.
- Opportunity to build technology that impacts financial services across emerging markets.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Recruitment Process
- Introductory call with members of the hiring team (30 mins).
- Interview with the Hiring Manager to assess technical fit (45 mins).
- Skills assessment / coding exercise.
- Final interview to discuss technical expertise, experience, and overall fit.
