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Senior Software Engineer (RCL)
About this role
FairMoney in Lagos is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build reliable, scalable backend systems that power lending and credit products. The role focuses on backend services, distributed systems and data-intensive applications, and suits engineers with strong backend experience, particularly in lending, fintech or other high-volume financial environments.
What you would do
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems.
- Develop reliable APIs and services that support lending and credit products.
- Design, optimise and maintain relational databases and data models.
- Identify and resolve performance, scalability and reliability bottlenecks.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical design discussions.
- Build systems with emphasis on availability, fault tolerance, security and data consistency.
What they are asking for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend development.
- Experience designing and building distributed systems and scalable backend applications.
- Experience in lending, credit, fintech, payments or related financial domain.
- Strong understanding of relational database design, indexing, query optimisation and performance tuning.
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with microservices architectures.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern development/deployment practices.
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