Engineering

Engineering Manager (identity) At Fairmoney

FairMoney·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Onsite
EngineeringFull TimeOnsite
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As an Engineering Manager (Identity) at FairMoney, you will lead an engineering squad responsible for building and maintaining reliable identity and KYC solutions that support our products and customers across markets.

You will combine strong people leadership with a hands-on technical background, working closely with engineers, Product, Risk, Compliance, and other stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality solutions. You will play a key role in shaping the squad's technical direction, engineering practices, and overall performance.

If you are an experienced engineering leader who enjoys developing people, solving complex technical problems, and building reliable systems in a financial services environment, we want you to join our team!

We are looking forward to having you work on:

  • Leading, mentoring, and developing engineering squads while fostering a strong culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement;
  • Providing technical leadership for identity, authentication, KYC, and related backend systems;
  • Working closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, and other teams to translate business and regulatory requirements into reliable technical solutions;
  • Driving the design, development, and delivery of scalable and resilient distributed systems;
  • Ensuring high standards across architecture, code quality, testing, security, reliability, and engineering practices;
  • Supporting engineers in solving complex technical challenges and making sound engineering decisions;
  • Managing team performance, growth, hiring, and development while ensuring the squad has the right skills and support to succeed;
  • Monitoring system performance and reliability, identifying areas for improvement, and driving continuous technical improvements;
  • Contributing to engineering strategy and helping shape the technology roadmap for Identity.

Our Technical Stack

Our customer-facing product is an Android application;

  • It communicates with Ruby on Rails or Go-lang backends (Sidekiq, RSpec);
  • Our ML pipeline is API-Flask (Python);
  • We are hosted on AWS: Kubernetes, SNS, SQS, Lambdas, RDS Aurora MySQL and PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, and Kinesis;
  • Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer);
  • We run our CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions.

Basic Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with experience in a backend engineering environment;
  • 2+ years of experience managing software engineering teams;
  • Strong hands-on experience with backend development and distributed systems;
  • Experience designing, building, and operating scalable and reliable production systems;
  • Strong understanding of software engineering principles, architecture, testing, CI/CD, and system reliability;
  • Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making skills;
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills;
  • Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating closely with Product and other business functions.

Key skills

BA/BSc/HND

At a glance

Company

FairMoney

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

September 21, 2026