Principal Software Engineer at SoLo Funds

Job Description

• As a Principal Software Engineer you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining our services that operate in Nigeria.
• We’re looking for someone who is a solid team player, a fast learner, and is enthusiastic about our mission.
• You will collaborate on our Nigeria products with engineering, product management, customer support, and recovery, building cross-functional relationships across the company, and delivering highly available and completely accurate financial services to our members.

What You'll Do

• Lead other engineers by example, producing high quality, accurate code quickly and efficiently
• Guide Nigeria-focused engineering and product initiatives
• Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, customer support, and finance departments to grow our Nigeria products sustainably

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in hands-on software development in Golang, Java, or similar strongly-typed backend language
• Extensive experience executing large-scale projects, communicating with nontechnical stakeholders, and comprehensive testing plans
• Extensive experience building robust APIs that are consumed by native apps
• Experience with Clean Architecture and finite state machines
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

You're An All Star Fit If You've Got

• Prior experience building payment or money movement platforms in Nigeria
• Prior experience evaluating third-party services providers
• Technical or business leadership experience (even if it wasn’t your title)