Chipper Cash Recruitment for Senior Software Engineer - Fullstack

Chipper Cash is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant job positions in their company. Interested candidates should kindly follow the job application guidelines below to apply.

Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer – Fullstack

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

About Our Tech Stack

Mobile:

React Native – Android / iOS application
Monitoring with BugSnag & Amplitude
Global state management with Redux
Chipper UI design system powered by: Styled Components & StoryBook.

Backend:

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.

The Team

We are looking for a Fullstack Senior Software Engineer to join our amazing Marketplace Products team and help continue our amazing growth trajectory.

Your Mission:

You’ll be responsible for developing and maturing the engineering systems that integrate with our partners to allow our users to pay bills and make airtime and data bundle purchases.
You’ll work closely with several departments to ensure that our software doesn’t run afoul of any rules and regulations, to help fight fraud, and to make using our marketplace products as easy and seamless as possible for our users.

Roles/Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain Chipper’s marketplace systems, integrations, and infrastructure
Contribute to maintaining and building out user experiences on the Chipper app using React Native.
Build out new features and products to help grow and scale marketplace products worldwide
Communicate and work directly with the technology partners Chipper uses for airtime and data bundles purchases
Communicate and work directly with the technology partners Chipper uses for bill payments.
Analyze technical problems, design and document solutions, and champion their adoption
Review technical specifications and code from other engineers, proactively providing guidance and suggestions to improve individuals and systems
Improve, promote and maintain our coding and quality standards and continue to raise the bar on our engineering practices
Pair, mentor, and learn with and from other engineers on the team and wider engineering organization
Collaborate and work with a distributed, diverse, and talented group of people across engineering, product, design, operations, growth, and more
Foster a welcoming and inclusive environment that empowers people to grow and succeed
Help out in other areas as needed, such as with issue resolution, incidents and investigations, engineering-wide initiatives, and other high-impact work
Have the opportunity to work cross-functionally and in multiple domains such as virtual cards and mobile application development.

Qualifications and Requirements

Multiple years of experience designing and developing backend engineering systems
Experience working with React Native to build iOS and Android applications.
Experience working with API integrations to third-party technology partners
Great communication skills, both written and verbal, to collaborate with other engineers and product managers
Ability to think and reason about technical systems and problems, and come up with solutions that are simple yet performant and mature
A high degree of collaboration, autonomy, responsibility, and initiative. You will be part of a team environment that rewards and expects supportive autonomy, where you are supported and given trust and the ability to operate independently without micromanagement
A kind, compassionate, empathetic, and inclusive mindset
We look for well-rounded software engineers of all backgrounds. Exceptional candidates may have experience working in card services, and financial technology, leading complex projects with multiple engineers and working in a modern JavaScript engineering environment.

Benefits

At Chipper Cash we prioritize people. We offer competitive salary and benefits including generous PTO that you’ll actually be encouraged to take, equity in the company, outstanding health and wellness benefits, generous parental leave, retirement matching, a welcoming and inclusive culture that embraces the open-minded traveler with a love for humanity and all our differences, and much more.