| Full Time Jobs |
| Posted 4 years ago |
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 of:
Job Title: Senior Engineer, Cards
Location: Remote
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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online