Favour Opia
Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience spanning full-stack, backend, and mobile engineering, building secure APIs and production systems for fintech, legal-tech, and AI-powered platforms.
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Software Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience spanning full-stack, backend, and mobile engineering, building secure APIs and production systems for fintech, legal-tech, and AI-powered platforms. Has designed RBAC and JWT/OAuth-based authorization layers that keep role-scoped data isolated across user types, integrated multiple AI models (Gemini, Groq) behind stable backend interfaces, and deployed and managed cloud infrastructure on AWS alongside Cloudinary, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines. Reconciles third-party payment and compliance-adjacent integrations (Paystack, Stripe, webhook verification) end to end, diagnoses production issues with runtime evidence rather than guesswork, and mentors engineers through direct, specific code review rather than general guidance.
- 3 years' experience
- Joined September 2026
Skills· 17
Languages
- EnglishAdvanced
Industry experience
- Financial Services
- Software & Internet
- Professional Services
- Healthcare
Work experience· 4 roles
Delivered and integrated production features across multiple concurrent products: Bitselah (fintech with 2M+ users), Firmly (AI legal-tech), Homemade (e-commerce), and the Nerdbug corporate website. Owned key frontend and admin work for Bitselah, including a filterable, self-serve admin tool for transaction monitoring and financial reporting across multiple service lines (crypto trading, gift cards, bill payments, airtime). Designed and implemented RBAC for Firmly so lawyers, paralegals, and administrators see permission-scoped views of the same underlying case data using shared middleware across protected routes. Built user-facing interfaces for AI-generated legal research/document comparison while controlling how AI output is surfaced and preventing broken-feeling states during ongoing generation. Supported API contract alignment with backend engineers to avoid integration mismatches and improved reliability and performance across platform flows. Also built and integrated admin/buye
Took full ownership of a cross-platform e-commerce and social app across architecture, backend, and release, shipping to both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Diagnosed and fixed an iOS-specific scrolling performance regression by identifying animated image transitions running on the UI thread during scroll and removing the unnecessary animation while preserving normal rendering behavior. Fixed background chat delivery receipts end-to-end by tracing push payloads through iOS Notification Service Extension handling, background tasks, backend acknowledgements, socket events, and messaging store updates. Kept the existing security model intact by maintaining signed single-use delivery tokens and unauthenticated delivery acknowledgements. Built shared Socket.IO delivery-event helpers and corrected group-chat batching logic so each sender receives delivery IDs only for messages they sent. Established a reliable physical-device iOS development and release workflow for Expo (EAS deve
Integrated REST APIs using React Query with caching and background refetch, writing unit and integration tests for components most prone to regressions. Extracted repeated UI patterns into a shared component library, reducing time for building new forms and data tables through reuse of tested components.
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