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🕒 June 10

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Branch International

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💸 Finance

Fintech • B2C • Finance

Branch International is a fintech company that is revolutionizing the financial services landscape in emerging markets, particularly across Africa and India. The company offers a popular finance app that provides digital banking products such as instant loans, money transfers, bill payments, and high-yield investments and savings. Branch enables seamless transactions and financial freedom through a smartphone-based platform, bypassing traditional banking hurdles. The Branch wallet allows for easy sending and receiving of funds, while Branch debit cards facilitate reliable payments and ATM withdrawals. The company is committed to providing fair access and empowering customers to make their money work harder with user-friendly mobile services driven by machine learning.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain customer-facing and internal products and APIs, following best practices around security, performance, reliability, and maintainability • Contribute to technical and product decisions by providing thoughtful input, raising trade-offs, and helping execute on agreed-upon solutions • Collaborate with engineers across functional areas (Android, Machine Learning, Data, DevOps, etc.) to support shared systems and identify opportunities for improvement • Participate in on-call rotations and operational work, helping diagnose issues, improve system reliability, and reduce future incidents • Continuously improve existing systems, by refactoring code, reducing technical debt, and improving developer productivity

🎯 Requirements

• 3–8 years of experience designing, coding, testing, and shipping backend software for web-based or mobile products • Experience working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver features and improvements aligned with business needs • Solid understanding of software development fundamentals, including computer science basics, data structures, APIs, databases, and modern development practices • Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code and ship quality software in a timely manner • Comfortable learning and contributing across adjacent technical areas such as frontend, Android/iOS, DevOps, data, or infrastructure, as needed • Pragmatically approach problems, balancing technical correctness, product requirements, and delivery timelines to arrive at effective solutions • Take ownership of your work, proactively identifying issues, improving systems, and following through to completion with guidance when needed • Strong collaborator and communicator • Value feedback, contribute constructively to discussions, and work effectively within a team • Excited about working in a distributed, globally diverse team, collaborating across time zones and cultures • Motivated to grow your technical depth and scope, learning from peers and taking on increasing responsibility over time

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package • Fast-paced, collaborative, and high-autonomy work culture • Hybrid work setup designed for flexibility and work-life balance • Fully paid group medical insurance and personal accident insurance • Generous paid time off, plus company-declared public holidays • Fully paid parental leave for fathers and non-birthing parents (12 weeks), in addition to 26 weeks of statutory maternity leave • Monthly WFH stipend, along with a one-time home office setup budget • $500 annual professional development budget • Quarterly social meet-ups and sponsored monthly team lunches