Senior Engineer, Cards at Chipper Cash

Job Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cards Team, you'd be responsible for building out Chipper's core infrastructure for issuing virtual and physical cards to our growing global customer base.
• Many people living in Africa have been traditionally excluded from the modern economic world due to lack of a robust internet enabled cards - As a cards engineer, you get to work on changing that.

What You Will Be Doing

• Be An Owner: Own management of the Chipper Cards Infrastructure
• Coordinate with various partners, processors, banks, compliance and security services to build and scale a secure card issuing infrastructure
• Build reliable, failsafe systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Think critically about how to best scale the infrastructure to serve the next 100m+ users on the platform
• Proactively seek out, and find solutions for any potential security vulnerabilities within the application infrastructure.

What You Should Have

• Limitless curiosity, persistence and a desire to get things done
• Ability to work autonomously, in ambiguity and collaboratively
• Strong communication skills
• Worked on systems where data consistency and availability is required
• Demonstrated technical initiative on previous projects.

Great to Have:

• Managing Node.js backend services at scale
• Payment / finance focused technology
• Working with event driven microservices.

About Our Tech Stack

• Node.js + Typescript service-based architecture
• React Native Android/iOS application
• PostgreSQL application databases
• RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
• Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform
• Fully automated CI/CD using Heroku CI and Github
• Application monitoring with Datadog, Logz.io, and Amplitude
• Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
• Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting.