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Golang Backend Engineer – Nigeria (Hybrid)
About this role
FairMoney Microfinance Bank in Lagos seeks a Golang Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend and platform services for its financial products. The role involves working on distributed systems, influencing architecture and technology choices, and mentoring other engineers. It targets candidates with extensive backend experience and strong problem-solving skills to support millions of customers across multiple markets. The company is building a mobile bank platform with services such as current accounts, savings, and debit cards, and operates across emerging markets. This is a hybrid role in Lagos, Nigeria.
What you would do
- Design and develop backend features with the Product team
- Build and evolve platform services for multiple markets while maintaining a common core product
- Create scalable solutions for complex financial processes
- Drive architecture and technology decisions for reliability and quality
- Design, develop and deploy medium to large projects
- Build and maintain distributed systems and platform services
- Design and optimise relational database schemas for performance and integrity
- Contribute to engineering best practices, coding standards, reviews, testing and ops
- Mentor other engineers and provide technical guidance
- Collaborate with other teams to deliver effective technical solutions
What they are asking for
- 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, SQL, indexing and performance optimisation
- Strong experience with Golang and backend development
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, and maintainable backend systems
- Good problem-solving and communication skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
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