Backend Engineering Manager, MoCaFi
$140-180k
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Personal finance platform for underserved communities
Open for applications
Personal finance platform for underserved communities
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$140-180k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help excluded communities create wealth through better access to public, private, and social capital.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience working with both structured and unstructured data
- Expert level skills in data security and secure coding
- Experience with core AWS technologies
- Experience with Flutter, React, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Git, MongoDB, and RESTful API creation is helpful in succeeding quickly in this role
- Experience in writing highly secure web applications
- Must be permanently based and authorized to work in the United States
What the job involves
- MoCaFi is seeking a skilled Back-End Development Manager who is consistently raising the bar for user experience. Working behind the scenes, the ideal candidate will have a unique blend of technical expertise, curiosity, team leadership, and an analytical mindset.
- This person should be comfortable working independently as well as with a team in the design and development of our web, app, and API projects. This role will include both hands-on development and the management of other developers
- Reporting to the Head of Engineering, the Back-End Development Manager will lead a team of Back-End developers and act as a player-coach. This position is remote.
- 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 desktop 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
Our take
MoCaFi is a fintech company that is looking to promote financial inclusion by addressing the challenges faced by underserved populations. The company leverages mobile technologies, data analytics, and strategic approaches to improve financial behaviors and promote wealth-building by providing accessible, user-friendly banking tools and services, and data-driven insights.
Through its Financial Services as Infrastructure™ platform, MoCaFi collaborates with government and philanthropic organizations to offer cash assistance, mobile banking solutions, and financial programming to individuals and families across America. The Harlem-based company has already made a significant impact in disbursing over $100M to families from marginalized communities in 15 cities across the United States.
Building upon this success, the company is focused on scaling its operations and driving further innovation in the fintech space. MoCaFi aims to expand its reach by partnering with additional municipalities, government entities, and community organizations, with the ultimate goal of reaching and helping the 110 million underserved Americans facing financial challenges.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2023
$23.5m
SERIES B
Feb 2022
$2.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $43.3m
Company HQ
West Harlem, New York, NY
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Leadership
Wole Coaxum
(Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Sales at Chase, a Managing Director at JPMorgan, and the Senior Vice President at JPMorgan Chase. Also experienced CEO/COO at Willis North America/Canada.
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