Backend Engineering Manager

Summary

Join MoCaFi, a fintech company focused on financial inclusion, as a Back-End Development Manager. You will lead a team of back-end developers, contributing to the design and development of web, app, and API projects. This remote role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership skills, and an analytical mindset. The salary range is $140,000-209,000. You will be responsible for managing back-end builds, producing high-quality code, and optimizing scalable systems. MoCaFi offers an empowering workplace with a supportive and inclusive culture and a flexible time-off policy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering preferred
• 5+ years of experience in payments or consumer lending (e.g., payment processing, acquiring, issuing, payment technology provider, etc.) is required
• 3+ years of experience building and leading a team
• Excellent foundation in computer science, algorithms, and RESTful API design
• Expert level skills in designing RESTful APIs and Python
• Expert level skills in node.js
• Experience working with both structured and unstructured data
• Expert level skills in data security and secure coding
• Experience with core AWS technologies
• Experience in writing highly secure web applications
• Must be permanently based and authorized to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Communicate regularly with stakeholders, project managers, quality assurance teams, and other developers regarding progress on the long-term technology roadmap
• Create and maintain workflows with teams to provide visibility and ensure workload balance for consistent visual designs
• Develop and oversee Back-End builds and schedule
• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed
• Recommend systems solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchase alternatives
• Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
• Design robust APIs to support mobile and web clients
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
• Optimize web/mobile applications for performance and scalability
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Flutter, React, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, MongoDB, and RESTful API creation is helpful in succeeding quickly in this role

Benefits

• An empowering workplace that values initiative and critical thinking
• Work on achieving our financial inclusion mission
• A supportive and inclusive culture: recognizes contributions and celebrates wins
• A welcoming environment that appreciates your bringing your entire self to work
• Time to rest and recharge -- flexible time off policy as long as you can get your job done and make arrangements with your manager to cover you if needed