Senior Engineering Manager

FairMoney is a credit-led mobile banking platform for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria and raised close to €50m from global investors like Tiger Global, DST & Flourish Ventures. You will be working as an Engineering Manager as a part of our Technology & Engineering division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Nigeria, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey and remotely across the globe.

Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering in our business unit, we are looking for an Engineering Manager ideally from Backend Software Engineering.

To Achieve:

Scaling and leading our globally distributed software engineering teams (Backend).

Putting processes in place to insure high quality and timely delivery of team engineering objectives.

Managing and contributing to our quest of building scalable infrastructure while limiting technical debts. Looking at engineering solutions through the lens of efficiency, quality, and velocity.

Our Tech Stack:

• Cloud providers: Azure
• Backend: Primarily .NET and Go-lang
• Architecture: Containerised Micro-service
• Configuration management: Terraform, Kubernetes
• CI/CD: Github Actions, ArgoCD

Requirements

• 6 - 8 years of experience in backend development mostly with .Net (C#)
• You have one significant work experience managing and leading a software engineering team
• You have an Engineering or University Diploma in computer science (we are also open to self-taught with 5 years experience in computer engineering)
• You are able to code in a backend language (Golang, C#)
• Understanding of Azure or AWS cloud providers
• Understanding the overall architecture and function of how multiple technology teams work together to build systems
• You excel at troubleshooting
• You are hands-on and have experience in architecting scalable solutions

Benefits

• 25 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors
• Remote (time zone must have significant overlap with CET)
• Training & Development budget
• Paid company business trips

Recruitment Process

• HR call 15-30 minutes
• Leadership interview with our tech leaders
• Technical interview with back-end focused