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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

• Work closely with experienced engineers at Branch for 4–6 months • Brainstorm, design, code, debug, and ship features serving millions of customers • Build functionality for existing and new product lines and platforms, including Credit, Payments, KYC, and Data Platforms • Integrate with third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms • Navigate and evolve existing architectures safely • Break down ambiguous projects into granular, estimable tasks • Collaborate with product, design, and other functions to shape work • Test, monitor, document, and take ownership of shipped code • Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate engineering workflows while managing security risks

🎯 Requirements

• Some experience building backend applications beyond toy projects • Applications with real users or an open-source project are a plus • Solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, and data storage • Familiarity with Unix variants and commonly used command-line utilities • Proficiency in at least one mainstream language such as Python, Ruby, Java, or Kotlin • Entrepreneurial initiative and experience starting or contributing to passionate projects • Strong collaboration and communication skills • Interest in working in a distributed company with teammates worldwide • Understanding of web fundamentals, data modeling, and distributed systems • Knowledge of modular, scalable design patterns • Awareness of security, performance, observability, and automated testing • Ability to navigate and evaluate unfamiliar codebases • Understanding of the full software development lifecycle • Ability to decompose ambiguous projects into granular, estimable tasks • AI fluency, including evaluating AI-generated code and mitigating prompt injection, data leakage, and secret-management risks • Ability to make high-velocity, high-quality decisions and work independently • Attention to detail, intellectual honesty, integrity, and ownership of shipped work • Ability to communicate in structured, async-friendly ways

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive stipend as compensation • A collaborative and flat company culture • A job offer depending on your performance during the internship • Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment