Abimbola Bakare
Senior Software Engineer · Payments, banking and investments · Frontend, backend, mobile and AI
I've spent six years building payments, banking and investment products, and I bring that experience to any team, in fintech and beyond.
Across the money stack
- 01
Moving money
At GetriPay I built frontend features across three fintech products: transfers, bill payments, savings, virtual cards and QR payments. At Nomba I built the collections payout system and helped grow monthly collections from about $36.5K to $973K in six months, and at 4Traderx I built a currency exchange that moved over $2M in its first year. Now I'm re-architecting Sofri's new mobile banking app at DLM and building its intra- and inter-bank transfers and bill payments.
GetriPay · Nomba (Kudi) · 4Traderx · DLM
- 02
Investing
I'm building DLM Thrive, where people invest in money market, fixed income, goal-based and retirement plans. I work on both sides: the investor app, from risk profiling to redemptions, and the console the team uses to run it.
DLM Thrive · in development
- 03
Running a bank
I built Sofri's V2 back office from scratch, and support, audit and compliance teams use it every day. It sits on top of the bank's core banking system, with maker-checker approvals for regulated dual-authorization actions and a three-layer role-based access system that Thrive's admin console reuses.
Sofri bank back office · DLM Thrive admin
- 04
Trust and security
I inherited Sofri's corporate internet banking codebase and led a security-hardening pass.
Sofri corporate internet banking
- 05
Billing and accounting
At Fieldsub I designed the billing core of a construction SaaS: per-line invoicing, change orders, deposits on quotes, client credits, Stripe Connect payments and seat-based subscriptions. It all syncs both ways with QuickBooks, on background jobs built to survive webhooks that fire twice or die halfway.
Fieldsub
Beyond fintech
Not everything I've built moves money.
Fieldsub
Multi-tenant SaaS for construction contractors. I architected the backend from scratch, then built a lot of what runs on it: a subcontractor bidding marketplace, AI estimating from photos and notes, real-time chat, WhatsApp notifications and an English and Spanish product.
Fieldsub · 2026·Visit ↗
Fieldsub AI assistant
Lets contractors run their business from chat, voice or WhatsApp. It has tools across clients, quotes, invoices and crew, asks for confirmation before anything involving money and follows the app's permissions. It also runs background automations, like chasing unpaid invoices and a morning brief.
Fieldsub · 2026·Visit ↗
Whering web platform & SEO
Built and scaled the web platform as it grew from about 2 million to 7 million+ users, and took it to #1 on Google for “digital wardrobe” and “styling app”.
Whering · 2022·Visit ↗
Whering Chrome extension
Lets people add items to their wardrobe, wishlist or moodboard while browsing any retail site, with cross-site auth that works across thousands of independently styled stores.
Whering · 2022·Visit ↗
Side projects
Experience
- 2026 – Now
DLM Capital Group
Senior Frontend Developer
Thrive and the Sofri banking apps.
- 2026 – Now
Fieldsub
Software Engineer, Contract
Construction SaaS: the backend, billing and an AI assistant.
- 2022 – 2025
Whering
Frontend Developer
The fashion tech web platform and Chrome extension.
- 2021 – 2022
4Traderx
Frontend Engineer, Contract
Built a peer-to-peer currency exchange from the ground up.
- 2021 – 2022
Traktion (acquired by IDX)
Frontend Developer
A B2B marketplace connecting businesses with marketers.
- 2021
Nomba (formerly Kudi, YC W17)
Frontend Engineer
Merchant onboarding, collections and payouts for Kudi Marketplace V2.
- 2020 – 2021
Duro Networks (GetriPay)
Frontend Engineer
Frontend features across GetriPay, GetriVest and GetriShop.
Tools
- Frontend
- TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TanStack Query, Zustand, Redux
- Mobile
- React Native, Expo, NativeWind
- Backend
- Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, Socket.IO, MongoDB, Firebase
- Payments & integrations
- Stripe Connect, QuickBooks Online API, WhatsApp Cloud API, webhooks, OpenAI and Claude APIs
- Testing & delivery
- Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, CI/CD, Vercel, AWS, Docker
Community
- She Code Africa
- Frontend mentor since 2025. I've mentored 20+ women across cohorts and received the SCA Mentorship Excellence Award in 2026.
- Speaking and writing
- Spoke at the Open Source Community Africa Festival 2025 on frontend engineering, and I've written for TechNext, Independent and TechCity.
About
My first role, back in 2020, was on GetriPay's payments app. Since then, most of what I've worked on has had money running through it, from merchant payments at Kudi to the banking and investment apps I'm building at DLM now.
I like knowing how the whole thing works, not just my screen. So I'll happily follow a feature from the UI into the API and the database until it makes sense.
Outside work, I'm usually looking for somewhere new to eat, catching up on a good drama, or planning a trip.
Get in touch
Open to roles and contract work.
I'm on GMT+1 and happy to work remotely.