Backend Software Engineer

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May 13

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Branch International

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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.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• You have strong experience (4+ years) in 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 respectfully when you disagree. • You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company with teammates from all over the world. • 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 find the best solution for a 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 • Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, and bereavement leave • Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave • Pension Benefit • 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