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About the job
Experienced Backend Software Engineer to join my client’s Fintech company which is a financial operating system for 40m Nigerian entrepreneurs. Using their intuitive and beautifully designed mobile app, business owners can open a business bank account in 5 minutes and get powerful tools to run a business (Invoicing, CRM, Inventory, e-commerce +More).
The Company
My client is a financial operating system for Nigerian entrepreneurs. Using their intuitive and beautifully designed mobile and web application, entrepreneurs are able to manage all their businesses and banking in one place. They are backed by YCombinator, Global Founders Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures. Immad Akhund CEO of Mercury, Karim Atiyeh CTO of Ramp, executives from Square, Facebook, Nubank, and many other well-respected angels and funds.
We're looking for a winner who shares our vision. You'll be joining the company because you genuinely believe the mission to empower African entrepreneurs is important and exciting. You demand the best from yourself and make your teammates better. You celebrate success but never settle, you execute at speed while maintaining quality. You are humble and courageous. You want to work with a community of people where you can learn fast, grow rapidly, and be recognized for your work.
We’re looking for a backend software engineer to join our team. Your primary responsibilities include architecting, implementing, releasing, and supporting features that enable our collaborative product model. A commitment to collaborative problem solving and creating high-quality products is essential.
Responsibilities
- Explore, define and develop new technologies and architecture.
- Re-evaluate existing technologies to constantly improve our platform.
- Improve upon and build new business-critical features and infrastructure.
- Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend implementations of new and existing consumer product features
- Design and develop software that will run across the web and mobile apps
- Work with smart algorithm processes to scale software from thousands to millions of transactions
- Set up staging and sandbox environments to test software functionality and efficiency
- Build smart data collection techniques to better understand user behaviors and experience
- Tackle software bugs and technical troubleshooting
- Support customer-witnessed testing.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Critically look at the user problems and design process flows and improves them
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand member pain points and come up with solutions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for improving the reliability and scalability of our systems
- Work across the engineering team to improve and uphold high technical standards
Requirements
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- Impact and mission-driven
- Champion mentality; result and goal orientated
- Great team player
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
- A keen and strategic problem solver
- Enjoy learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work
- 5+ years developing software in a production environment at scale
- a deep understanding of Python
- Very good understanding of APIs and Django Rest framework
- Very good understanding of Celery, RabbitMQ, Memcached
- Very good understanding of Node.js, MySQL DB, PostgreSQL
- Very good understanding of socket programming
- Ability to 'mold' efficient queries to perform tasks on time
- Must have built awesome software before that had live active users
- Knowledge of technological trends.
- Working knowledge of Git
- Ability to conduct technological analyses and research.
- Experience working with transactional databases and caching systems
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale mobile applications
- An appreciation for maintainable and well-tested code
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Medical cover
- Wellness perks
- Paid time off (leave days)
- We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities.
- You get to collaborate with and learn from smart and creative people.
Mana Search is FinTech’s all-in-one search firm. We partner with the most exciting VC & growth equity-backed fintechs. Strategic search into the CxO suite, venture building through delivering teams in Engineering, Data Analytics, Product and Commercial. If you are interested in hearing more about this role or others do get in touch via max@manasearch.co.uk - thanks!
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