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The Mifos Initiative is a global 501(c)3 fintech non-profit  profit leveraging the cloud, mobile & open source community to democratize financial services worldwide and digitally transform the world’s 3 billion poor and underbanked. We aim to create a world of 3 Billion Maries where everyone has access to the financial resources needed to create a better life for themselves and their family. Our unprecedented approach unites financial institutions, local technology partners, and volunteer developers to collectively advance open source banking infrastructure to sustainably build impactful innovations in digital financial services.

We guide the global Mifos ecosystem of partners and volunteers contributing back to the open source Mifos and Fineract platforms. Mifos donated the codebase to the Apache Software Foundation for what ultimately became the top-level project, Apache Fineract. Both Mifos and Fineract have been nominated and selected by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as foundational digital public goods for the Financial Inclusion Community of Practice. 

More than 25 million clients supported by 400+ fintechs and financial institutions use our open APIs to power their solution across 56+ countries. They are supported by a global community of 100 deployment partners & hundreds of volunteers.

Mifos  is the innovation that powers the innovators by providing a set of open source building blocks that can be composed into financial services of any form. Across the world from grassroots microfinance institutions in rural Africa serving dozens of clients with microloans to government-led banks in Latin America reaching millions to banks in Germany delivering mortgage loans, from digital credit startups reaching hundreds of thousands in West Africa to mobile wallet providers supporting millions in India, to cloud-based core banking systems reaching millions across multiple continents to banking as a service providers enabling neobanks, our open banking stack is transforming the delivery of digital financial service

For the past 15 years, we’ve been at the forefront of transformative technology, building an end to end open source stack for DFS. Our technology stack provides complete banking infrastructure that is cloud-native, mobile-enabled, and scalable to billions Our mission is to scale the development and impact of inclusive fintech through an open community to advance the financial health of these 3 billion underbanked. 

Mifos has pioneered open source banking technology for the past fifteen years transforming the entire sector at each major stage of evolution from microfinance to financial inclusion to digital financial services. Mifos guides the open source community, steers the roadmap, and stewards the vibrant ecosystem of organizations building solutions on top of Mifos and Apache Fineract. Our building blocks for banking, recognized as digital public goods and digital public infrastructure to achieve the UN SDG of No Poverty, make core banking commoditized infrastructure, empowering any organization, anywhere to embed any financial service to any customer via any channel. 

These building blocks provide the common functionalities for creating customers, managing wallets, savings and loan accounts, orchestrating payments, and  maintaining the financial ledger & reports. Highly scalable in the cloud, our composable modular platform architecture is delivered via a set of Open APIs and reference mobile and web apps for staff and customers.

We guide the global Mifos ecosystem of partners and volunteers contributing back to the open source Mifos and Fineract platforms. Mifos donated the codebase to the Apache Software Foundation for what ultimately became the top-level project, Apache Fineract. Across the public sector, we are a critical digital public good to advance digital public infrastructure for financial inclusion such as G2P Payments:

• Nomination and selection of both Mifos and Fineract by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as foundational digital public goods for the Financial Inclusion Community of Practice
• Initial partners of the G2P Connect movement led by Co-Develop Fund
• Guiding the design and implementation of the Payment Building Block for GovStack led by ITU, DIAL, and GIZ
• Active participant in the Digital Convergence Initiative led by Universal Social Protection. 
• Launching OpenG2P with DSTI and UNDP and now co-leading it with MOSIP. 

Mifos was chosen as an MIT Solver for the 2021 Digital Inclusion Global Challenge and awarded the 2021 Banking Tech Award for Mifos X for Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking & Finance and the 2022 Banking Tech Awards for Payment Hub EE for Best Contribution to Economic Mobility in Banking & Finance. More than 25 million clients are reached by 500+ financial institutions across 56 countries using solutions powered by its APIs.

Mifos  is the innovation that powers the innovators by providing a set of open source building blocks that can be composed into financial services of any form. Across the world from grassroots microfinance institutions in rural Africa serving dozens of clients with microloans to government-led banks in Latin America reaching millions to banks in Germany delivering mortgage loans, from digital credit startups reaching hundreds of thousands in West Africa to mobile wallet providers supporting millions in India, to cloud-based core banking systems reaching millions across multiple continents to banking as a service providers enabling neobanks, our open banking stack is transforming the delivery of digital financial service

For the past 15 years, we’ve been at the forefront of transformative technology, building an end to end open source stack for DFS. Our technology stack provides complete banking infrastructure that is cloud-native, mobile-enabled, and scalable to billions that are underbanked. Our stack is a set of Open Source Lego Blocks for DFS including flexible account management (Mifos X) leveraging Open APIs from Apache Fineract and Fineract CN, integrating with digital payment rails like Mojaloop, delivered via web and mobile apps through Open Banking APIs.  

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Building from the API

Using Custom Modules

For Season of Docs, where I think we could use a technical writer is to help with more of our documentation around developer experience - getting environment setup, installation guides, deployability and DevOps tools, what SDKs we have and how to interact, how to use the API, custom modules,  contribution process, coding standards, upstream development, etc.So moreso helping to onboard new contributors/developers - could be volunteers, could be staff, could be partners, could be fintechs implementing.I This topic area could be one in which the technical writer might not need the domain knowledge but they would require the DevOps/dev knowledge.could be partners, could be fintechs implementing.I

contributing to the project,   required The focus of our documentation leveraging this existing documentation as foundational componen This project will build off of the 2021 Season of Docs project which consolidated our documentation into one unified portal with separate spaces for developer and user documentation. 

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• Based on review of the above deliverables by project supervisor and volunteers, technical writer will implement feedback and refine deliverables
• Draft season of docs case study 

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• supervisor and volunteers, technical writer will implement feedback and refine deliverables
• Draft season of docs case study 

Project Total: 35 - 40 person-days

Ideal Skillsets

Due to the need for familarity with the developer experience and interacting with our software from the perspective of a developer, the ideal technical writer candidate should have previous experience as a developer or community manager including collaboration and communication with OSS developers, familiarity with DevOps tooling like Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and interacting with software via APIs or SDKs. 

Measuring Project Success 

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