Senior Fullstack Engineer

About The Role

As an early engineering hire at a fast-growing Series A-stage fintech, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the founding team to shape the product vision and all parts of our technical architecture. This is a role that builds technology to solve customer problems; to do that, you must have empathy and curiosity to get to the root cause of the issue and the creativity to build a solution which balances impact, effort, and delight.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the product process from end-to-end, from ideation to building the UI, backend logic, deployment, feedback, and measurement.
• Build intuitive and performant web interfaces for business owners in Africa.
• Implement IT security and data protection best practices in a regulated environment.
• Observe opportunities for improvements internally to help automate non-tech processes and add to our tech best practices to improve output and efficiency.
• Communicate internally and externally about new features, whether collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them at launch.
  
  

Some Projects We’ve Worked On

• WhatsApp bot that creates quotes for customers based on their responses.
• Self-serve onboarding flow that collects company information and KYC documents from customers.
• Asynchronous workers that OCR invoices.
• Internal tooling to manage and process millions of dollars in transactions.
  
  

Tech Stack

• Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL
  
  

Requirements

• Experience in a VC-backed engineering team and building products used by customers.
• A strong understanding of web development, frontend, and backend best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions with both technical and non-technical team members and customers.
• Passionate about solving the problems faced by African businesses and aligning with our mission.
• Comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment with high pace, rapid growth, involvement in the entire product development process, and a high degree of ambiguity.
  
  

Nice To Haves

• French speaking.
• Experience in fintech and/or emerging markets.
• Expertise in security and data protection best practices.
  
  

Skills: backend development,typescript,nodejs,postgresql,web development,nextjs,fullstack,it security,express,fintech,frontend development,building,web,data protection,react