Capi Money

About the Company

Capi helps businesses in Africa pay their overseas suppliers. Importers of goods in Africa pay up to 10% to settle an invoice and wait weeks for the payment to arrive. We’re on a mission to give businesses in Africa the same price and speed as businesses expect in the US and Europe.

We're backed by Firstminute Capital, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Raba, Kima Ventures, Africa Fintech Collective, Musha Ventures, Four Cities, former a16z and YC partners (including Paul Graham), scouts from a16z and Sequoia, and co-founders and operators from Onfido, Taptap Send, McKinsey, Earnest, GiveDirectly, and Turquoise Mountain

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Company Name

Capi Money

Job Title

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Job Description

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 our non-tech processes and add to our tech best practices to improve our output and efficiency
Communicate internally and externally about new features, be it collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them on launch

Some projects we’ve worked on in the past:
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 of transactions

Our stack is: 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
You care about our mission and solving the problems faced by African businesses
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

Additional information:
This is a full-time position with competitive salary, share options, and benefits
Start date: Immediately (with flexibility)
For Remote: Based in (or working equivalent of) UTC/GMT -1:00 to UTC/GMT +4:00
Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds

Company Benefits
Hybrid working (with the exception for remote roles)
4 weeks 'work from anywhere' policy (1 week at a time)
25 days holiday
Pension package

Interview Process
Interview with Tom, CTO
Tech Task
Interview with Engineering Lead
Interview with 2 other founders (Individually)

London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

26-02-2025