Engineering

Team Lead Golang (lending)

FairMoney·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Remote
EngineeringFull TimeRemote
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  • We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers responsible for building and scaling reliable technology solutions for our lending and credit products.
  • You will combine strong technical expertise with people leadership, working closely with Product, Data, Risk, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
  • You'll be responsible for engineering execution, technical direction, team development, and the reliability of the systems your team owns.

What You'll Do

  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, creating a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture.
  • Own the technical direction and delivery of systems supporting lending and credit products.
  • Work closely with Product, Risk, Data, and other teams to define technical solutions and delivery priorities.
  • Drive the design, development, and scaling of reliable backend services and distributed systems.
  • Participate in architectural decisions and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and resilient.
  • Set engineering standards around code quality, testing, deployment, observability, and system reliability.
  • Support engineers with technical guidance, code reviews, architecture discussions, and complex problem-solving.
  • Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and system reliability issues.
  • Ensure effective planning, prioritisation, and timely delivery of engineering initiatives.
  • Establish and track engineering metrics around delivery, quality, reliability, and operational performance.
  • Support incident management and ensure effective root-cause analysis and follow-up.
  • Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, career development, and performance management.
  • Participate in hiring and help build a strong engineering team.

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend development (Golang).
  • 2+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams.
  • AI native development familiarity
  • Hands-on coding experience and contribution is must to have, you would be expected to design and code the new system and lead with examples.
  • Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and scalable backend applications.
  • Experience working within lending, credit, fintech, payments, or a closely related financial domain.
  • Strong understanding of relational database design, optimisation, indexing, and query performance.
  • Strong knowledge of system design, software architecture, APIs, microservices, and asynchronous/event-driven systems.
  • Proven experience delivering complex technical projects from design through production.
  • Strong understanding of software development practices, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production operations.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and developing technical talent.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Ability to balance technical quality, business priorities, and delivery timelines.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience building or scaling credit decisioning, loan management, repayment, collections, or risk systems.
  • Experience working with high-volume transactional systems.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices.
  • Experience leading distributed or geographically dispersed engineering teams.
  • Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in a fast-growing organisation.

Programming language: golang, react (some level of frontend development would be good to have)

Benefits

  • Private Health Insurance
  • Pension Plan
  • Training & Development
  • Remote work
  • Paid Time Off

Recruitment Process:

  • HR Screening: 30 minutes
  • Hiring Manager Interview: 30 minutes
  • Technical interview with the Engineering team: 60 minutes.

At a glance

Company

FairMoney

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

October 12, 2026