Senior Backend Engineer

This role is open to Engineers resident in West or East Africa

What you’ll do

• Work with our tech team to improve existing features and work on new features on the Moni app.
• Collaborate with mobile engineers and product manager
• Build, test and maintain APIs (NodeJs) to be consumed by mobile engineers
• Integrate and consume third party APIs to solve business needs

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer
• A Bachelor's Degree in any major.
• Experience working in a fast paced, remote environment
• Experience writing and deploying production grade applications using Backend JavaScript frameworks: NodeJs + Express.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs
• Experience with WebSockets, Redis and SQL
• Experience integrating with a Core Banking Application
• Experience building Digital banking services
• Understanding of git and version control
• Experience working in a Fintech is a plus
• Experience writing code across the Full-stack with frontend JavaScript frameworks is a big plus
• Experience writing and publishing technical content and documentation is a big plus.
• If you're bilingual in English and French, that's a big++
• Take ownership of the micro-service that will be assigned to them
• Experience writing unit tests
• Strong understanding of Typescript
• Strong understanding of Distributed systems and Micro-services

What it Takes to Succeed in the Role

• You're a critical thinker and possess great problem-solving skills
• You're a great team player
• You have led a team in the past
• You demonstrate good organizational and time-management skills
• You enjoy writing and talking about technology
• You are able to mentor other junior and mid-level engineers.
• You enjoy picking up and learning new technology
• You always ensure high code-quality and maintainability.
• You're passionate about doing meaningful work that has an impact on underserved Communities

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage (Nigeria)
• M1 MacBook Pro
• The opportunity to work at a fast-growing, fast-paced startup
• A team that's invested in your growth

At Moni, we believe in the collective prosperity of both our staff and our agents. We hire the most versatile, curious and talented people we can find and give them all they need to thrive!

Come join us!