Software Engineer - Backend (Go-lang)
FairMoney
Posted: February 11, 2026
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Quick Summary
As a Software Engineer - Backend in our fast-growing fintech company, you will be working on the core engineering team, contributing to the development of our mobile banking platform. You will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable backend systems, ensuring high-quality code and efficient performance. You will also be part of a global team, working remotely and contributing to the growth of our company.
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Job Description
FairMoney is a credit-led mobile banking platform for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria and raised close to €50m from global investors like Tiger Global, DST & Flourish Ventures. You will be working as an Engineering Manager as a part of our Technology & Engineering division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Nigeria, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey and remotely across the globe.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of the core engineering team of a fast-growing fintech poised for more rapid growth in the coming years.
We are looking forward you to working on:
• Developing high-quality features by working with our Product team to better serve customers.
• Building a platform on which each market can plug its specific features while maintaining a solid common core product.
• Tackling complex financial processes with the right patterns and appropriate solutions.
• Helping drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class experience for our customers.
• Being responsible for designing, developing, and deploying medium to large-sized projects.
• Helping define engineering best practices and providing technical mentorship to other members of the engineering team.
• Contributing to continuous improvements to an infrastructure that can handle millions of clients.
• Analyzing and improving efficiency, scalability, and stability of monitoring, continuous integration, and platform integration.
Technical Stack
• Our customer-facing product is an Android application.
• It communicates with a Ruby on Rails or Go-lang backend (sidekiq, rspec).
• Our ML pipeline is an API-flask (Python).
• We are hosted on AWS: we use Elastic Beanstalk, an RDS Aurora Mysql database, S3, Kinesis (data-stream, firehose).
• Prototype of a data warehouse on GCP (GCS, BigQuery, Cloud Composer).
• We have automated tests that run on Travis.
Requirements:
• 6+ years of experience in backend software development mostly with Go-lang (and/or Java/C++).
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.
• You have an Engineering or University Diploma in computer science (we are also open to self-taught with 5 years of experience in computer engineering).
• You are able to code in a backend languages (Python, Java, Javascript, Golang, C#).
• Understanding of AWS or GCP cloud providers.
• Understanding the architecture and function of multiple technology teams working together to build systems.
Benefits:
• 20 days paid vacation, Sick & Public Holidays to B2B contractors
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Training & Development budget
• Paid company business trips (not mandatory)
• Fully Remote, Work from Anywhere (timezone must have partial overlap with CET)
Recruitment Process
• HR call 15-30 minutes.
• Technical interview with back-end focused.
• Stakeholder interview with our tech leaders.