MoCaFi is committed to building a financial services platform that helps America’s marginalized communities create wealth through better access to public, private, and social capital. We are a fintech built for government and non-profit organizations committed to creating finance for all. Our platform is a turnkey digital banking solution for delivering cash payments, deposit accounts, and wealth empowerment tools at the city, state, and federal levels.

MoCaFi has distributed over $100M in guaranteed basic income, cash assistance, emergency rental assistance, and emergency utility payments in over a dozen municipalities. We are led by a diverse team of finance, engineering, and startup professionals committed to closing America’s racial wealth gap. We offer FDIC-insured bank accounts, municipal-funded disbursement cards, and financial empowerment services directly to consumers and through our public and private sector partners.

Job Description

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, and the base salary range is $140,000-180,000.

Job Responsibilities

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 web 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

Qualifications

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
Expert level skills in node.js
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

Why you'll love working here:

An empowering workplace that values initiative and critical thinking
Work on achieving our financial inclusion mission
A supportive and inclusive culture: recognizes contributions and celebrates wins
A welcoming environment that appreciates your bringing your entire self to work
Time to rest and recharge -- flexible time off policy as long as you can get your job done and make arrangements with your manager to cover you if needed

MoCaFi believes all persons should have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment. This policy is without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital, or veteran status.