FinTech: digital financial services engineering
Build reliable payments, wallets and financial services.
Your running project
A savings wallet for a tontine
- The need
- Collect by mobile money, keep an error-free ledger, show everyone their balance.
- The data
- Made-up transactions you generate, with no real data.
- External tools
- API de paiementPostgreSQLGit
Workshop
Establish the needs
Who uses it, what problem it solves, how to tell it worked.
What you will learn
- Payment APIs, cards and mobile money
- Double-entry bookkeeping and reconciliation
- Payment security and PCI DSS
- KYC, fraud prevention and regulation
Certifications to aim for at the end
No recognised certification covers fintech as a whole: these focus on payments.
- Entry levelPCI Professional (PCIP)PCI Security Standards Council
- Entry levelStripe Associate DeveloperStripeCheck that individuals can register.
- AdvancedStripe Certified Professional DeveloperStripeCheck that individuals can register.
These certifications are issued by their own bodies, not by Nangmo, and their exams are paid for with them. Checked on 3 November 2026: confirm the language, price and exam location on their site before registering. These exams are generally taken without AI: you will need to read and reason on your own.
How to start a career in this field
- 1Take our API and mobile money course to learn to collect payments without errors.
- 2Build a small wallet with a real ledger, and publish it.
- 3Read your central bank's rules on electronic payments.
- 4Apply to fintechs, banks and payment aggregators as a payments back-end developer.
First jobs to aim for
- Payments back-end developer
- API integration engineer
- Fraud analyst
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