Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message.
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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 bundles 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.
What You Will Be Doing
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.
What You Should Have
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 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, financial technology, leading complex projects with multiple engineers, and working in a modern JavaScript engineering environment