Engineering

Golang Backend Engineer

FairMoney·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Contract
EngineeringFull TimeContract
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Role Overview

  • As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and building scalable backend and platform services that power FairMoney's financial products.
  • You will work on complex distributed systems and financial processes, contribute to architectural and technology decisions, and help build a reliable platform that can support millions of customers across multiple markets.
  • You will also contribute to engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, and take ownership of medium to large-sized technical projects from design through deployment.

What You Will Work On

  • Develop high-quality backend features in collaboration with the Product team to better serve our customers.
  • Build and evolve platform services that allow individual markets to implement specific features while maintaining a strong common core product.
  • Design and develop scalable solutions for complex financial processes using appropriate architectural patterns.
  • Drive architecture and technology decisions that enable a reliable and high-quality customer experience.
  • Design, develop, and deploy medium to large-sized projects.
  • Build and maintain distributed systems and platform services that are reliable, scalable, and resilient.
  • Design and improve relational database schemas, ensuring data integrity, performance, and scalability.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards, code reviews, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other members of the engineering team.
  • Contribute to continuous improvements across infrastructure supporting millions of customers.
  • Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of monitoring, CI/CD, and platform integrations.
  • Work closely with other engineering teams and stakeholders to identify technical requirements and deliver effective solutions.

Technical Stack:

  • Customer-facing product: Android and iOS apps - Kotlin KMP.
  • Backend: Golang and Ruby on Rails.
  • Background processing & testing: Sidekiq, Temporal (Golang), RSpec.
  • ML pipeline: Python / Flask API.
  • Cloud: AWS.
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, SNS, SQS, Lambdas.
  • Databases: RDS Aurora MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.
  • Storage & streaming: S3, Kinesis, Kafka.
  • Data warehouse: GCP, GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer.
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions.
  • Full-stack / Frontend (Good to Have): React Native, Next.js, and modern web development technologies.

Requirements

Must-Have Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional backend software development experience.
  • Strong experience designing and building distributed systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining platform services or shared backend infrastructure.
  • Strong experience with relational database design, including schema design, data modelling, SQL, indexing, and performance optimization.
  • Strong experience with Golang and backend development.
  • Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems.
  • Strong understanding of software engineering principles, system design, and object-oriented design.
  • Good problem-solving skills and the ability to work on complex technical challenges.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience building and delivering complex software systems used by customers at scale.
  • Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, testing, build processes, and operations.
  • Experience with microservices and distributed architectures.
  • Experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS, alternatively GCP or Azure.
  • Experience with high-volume systems and designing for scalability, availability, and resilience.
  • Experience communicating with users, technical teams, and management to gather requirements and translate them into technical designs and specifications.
  • Experience in fintech, banking, lending, or other financial services is a plus.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical direction is a plus.
  • Comfortable working with AI-native development tools.
  • Full-stack experience is a plus, particularly with React Native, Next.js, or modern web development technologies.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay.
  • Paid annual leave.
  • A network of talented colleagues.
  • Opportunity to work with a diverse, international team.
  • Opportunity to build technology that impacts financial services across emerging markets.

Recruitment Process:

  • Introductory call with members of the hiring team - 30 mins.
  • Technical interviews with members of the Engineering team - 45 - 60 mins.

At a glance

Company

FairMoney

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 20, 2026