Korapay is a payment infrastructure that helps a wide range of enterprises make local and international payments. We are a marketplace for digital financial services in Africa. Our vision, which drives all we do, is to establish a world free of digital financial barriers throughout Africa. We are devoted to providing every customer with dependable, secure, and user-friendly digital financial products that will improve their life.

1). Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)

Job type: Full-time

Department: Engineering

Responsibilities

This is a high-impact, collaborative role responsible for driving outcomes across the product and engineering team. You would be working with relevant stakeholders across the different teams within the organization to help define and implement tools and solutions to meet the business objectives.
The role covers all stages, from requirements gathering, systems design, implementation, testing and operational support.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Kora, you will focus on building new scalable features, optimizing and maintaining existing features, participating heavily in code and technical reviews, working closely with other engineers in the team to guide with implementation and technical direction, research and suggest new ways to improve our application and processes.
You will be heavily involved in designing, optimising, and implementing the next phase for our applications and backend infrastructure as we continue to scale and meet the ever-growing demands of our merchants and the business.

Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:

Report to the CTO working in the busy Backend team and the ever-innovative Engineering Team.
Working collaboratively with our CTO (Chief Technology Officer), Product Management, Product Design, Business, Compliance, and IT Team to ensure each merchant is onboarded in a professional, timely manner.
Strong working relationship with Managing Team / Directors / Team Leads around the business.

What You’ll be Doing

Designing, implementing, and maintaining secure large-scale payment solutions to support our merchants and the business
Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve and optimize the reliability and performance of current applications, and implementations.
Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Participating actively in code and technical reviews.
Document development phases and monitor, and debug systems.

What You’ll Need

4+ years of experience building large-scale and data-intensive applications. This includes but is not limited to expertise in building large-scale and performant applications, working with large data, microservices, distributed systems, data and database optimization, etc.
Familiarity with our commonly used technology choices including Node.js, Typescript, and MySQL.
Experience working on low latency, high throughput distributed systems & with micro-service architectures.
Attention to detail.
Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
Deliberate drive to constantly improve and get better.
Experience engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams.
Experience with test frameworks and writing quality tests.
A strong desire to give our merchants a great experience using our payment infrastructure.

Benefits

Health insurance
Sponsored and tailored training
Paid parental leave
Paid time off
Flexible work style
Annual performance bonus
Low-interest loans
Employee assisted programs
Day off on your birthday
Employee resource groups that provide supportive communities within Kora
Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Note: We recognize imposter syndrome is real – any candidate who does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.

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2). Product Manager

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full-time
Department: Product Management

Responsibilities
Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Strive to deeply understand user needs by conducting user research and identifying opportunities and pain points. And advocate for user needs through the cycle of building products.
Define, document, and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products for your customers.
Work with a team of engineers and designers to discover solutions to customer pain points and build and launch products for local and global businesses.
Ensure successful product launches by working cross-functionally with marketing, merchant success, sales, operations, legal, and compliance teams.
Reporting Structure: This role reports to the Head of Product.

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated experience in successfully building and shipping impactful products in the financial services space.
You have a good understanding of how software is built and operated and experience in building technical software products.
Excellent ability to bring clarity and focus to complex and ambiguous situations
Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs
Strong communication skills
Ability to collaborate and lead teams – Product roles bring responsibility without direct authority. We’re looking for leaders who can motivate and earn the trust of stakeholders and teams with a collaborative approach.
Project Management skills – Previous experience seeing projects through from beginning to end and owning the entire process;
Curiosity and drive
Great attention to detail and cares about building quality products

Working hours:

Given that we are an all-remote company and hire almost anywhere in the world, we don’t have a location requirement for this role. However, your working hours must coincide with 9:00 am – 5:00 pm WAT for at least 40 hours/week.

Benefits

Health insurance
Sponsored and tailored training
Paid parental leave
Paid time off
Flexible work style
Annual performance bonus
Low-interest loans
Employee assisted programs
Day off on your birthday
Employee resource groups that provide supportive communities within Kora
Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!

Deadline: Not Specified.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:

Interview Process

Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. It may look like a lot of steps, but rest assured that we move quickly and the steps are designed to help you get the information needed to determine if we’re the right fit for you… Interviewing is a two-way street, after all!
We expect the interview process to take a maximum of 3 weeks and an average of 2.5 hours in total. Please note that the interview is virtual.
- Introduction Stage – we have initial conversations to get acquainted with you and overall experience.
- [15m] Recruiter Screen – Abayomi Ishmael
- [7 days max] Take-home Assessment/Project
- Project Review: The Product Management team Feedback from the Recruiter (Abayomi Ishmael)
- [60m] Live Case Interview (Product Management team) – We proceed to evaluate your ability to understand the user, understand the problem, find a solution and execute your plan based on the take-home assessment/project.
- [60m] Product Interview with the hiring manager – At this stage, we aim to give you more information about the role and assess your fit for the role based on your experience building products.
- [60m] Cultural Fit Interview (Our Core Values) – At this stage, you’ll engage in a conversation with Kora’s Head of People and Culture, and the Head of Product Management. The aim is to understand you better and assess the alignment of your beliefs and values with Kora’s distinctive culture. We’d like to emphasize that there are no right or wrong answers expected. However, we encourage you to maintain a positive attitude during this session.
- Please note that you are welcome to ask questions and inquire during this process. We assure you of complete transparency throughout the interview process.

Note: We recognize imposter syndrome is real – any candidate who does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.

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