Branch International is hiring a
Backend Software Engineer, Remote - Nigeria

Summary

The job is for a backend engineer at Branch International, a global fintech company that offers financial services to underserved customers. The role involves working on the engineering team in Nigeria, building out backend functionality for various products, integrating with third-party systems, scaling backend services, and more. The company values bottom-up innovation, decentralized decision-making, and a fast-moving, customer-focused environment.

Requirements

• You have strong experience (2+ years) of building backend software for web-based or mobile products
• You are an excellent collaborator and communicator. You listen to others and seek to understand, but aren’t afraid to speak your mind and debate in a respectful manner when you disagree
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world

Responsibilities

• Build out backend functionality for existing and new product lines such as Credit, Wallet, Bill Pay, and others
• Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms
• Scale our backend services and pipelines to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity
• Help build flexible and easy-to-use tools used by our operations teams to handle customer inquiries and other business processes

Preferred Qualifications

• You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies
• You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to arrive at the best solution for a given problem
• You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You proactively identify problems and propose solutions

Benefits

• Work in a mission-driven, global, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard (Platinum plan)
• Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising; 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, bereavement leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave
• Pension Benefit
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• We believe learning should never stop and so we provide a $500 stipend annually towards learning and development irrespective of role, title or tenure
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance
• Team meals and social events (Hybrid for now)
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work and interact with a global team