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: Principal Software Engineer (Payments Platforms)
Location: Lagos
Job Summary
We're hiring a Principal Engineer to help shape the technical direction of that platform.
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:Go for our services
PostgreSQL and MySQL for persistent storage
Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS and SQS for asynchronous messaging
Kubernetes and Docker to run our services
AWS for most of our infrastructure
ResponsibilitiesDirect integrations with banks, switches and payment processors across Nigeria
Design, build and maintain the APIs and services that handle money movement at scale.
Contribute to the architecture of the payments platform — service boundaries, data ownership, and the guarantees we make.
Build for failure: idempotency, retries, reconciliation and settlement across systems we don't control.
Debug and resolve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
Lead design reviews and set the standard for engineering quality across the team.
Mentor senior engineers and grow payments expertise in the org.
Work closely with product, risk, operations and partner-facing teams.
Requirementsyou have 5+ years of experience and a track record of technical leadership.
you've worked in payments, banking or fintech, and you know how ledgers, settlement and reconciliation actually behave
you have 2+ years of experience with Go, Java, .NET or TypeScript
you've built distributed, event-driven systems and understand how they fail
you're strong at API design and have integrated with external third parties at scale
you have deep experience with relational databases — PostgreSQL or MySQL — including schema design, query optimisation, indexing and transactions
you've worked with messaging and streaming systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS or SQS
you've built and operated highly available, resilient, observable systems
you're a strong debugger — you're the person others come to when production is confusing.
BenefitsPrivate Health Insurance
Pension Plan
Training & Development
Remote work
Paid Time Off.
Application Closing DateNot Specified.
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