Senior Backend Engineer at Moni

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