Backend Engineer

Who are we

There are 2B adults worldwide that don’t have a bank account. 2B. That’s ~40% of the world’s adult population. 350M of these live in Sub Saharan Africa. They are hardworking, young, connected adults that are invisible to the traditional banking system. Fido is changing that. We are building a borderless digital bank so that everyone can access financial products like credit, savings, and payments that make lives easier and better.

Are you tired of building boring enterprise software? Want to be an early employee in a unique consumer brand? Want to do work that has an impact on society? Join us. We build consumer products that are powered by a magical cocktail of real-time mission-critical ML models, behavioral psychology, and financial engineering. We promote meritocracy, decide fast and commit, and worship data. Come join us as one of our early team members.

Join our mission to make financial services accessible and improve the lives of millions of people in Africa and emerging markets.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain backend services.
• Design and implement RESTful APIs for various financial products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance service performance and scalability.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of the development process.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in a distributed microservices environment.

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
• At least 2 years of experience as a Software Engineer, working as part of an engineering team.
• Experience with backend programming languages such as Python, Node.js, or Go.
• Experience with AWS services (Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS).
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Advantage - Experience with CI/CD tools and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Advantage - Familiarity with Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
• Advantage - Experience with machine learning models and data-driven decision-making.

What we offer

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• A significant impact role in a rapidly growing fintech company.
• Work with cutting-edge technology and a talented team.