Engineering Manager, NALA
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African and Asia cross-border payments company
Open for applications
African and Asia cross-border payments company
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To increase economic opportunity on the African continent and for its diaspora around the world.
Role
Who you are
- You have 8+ years of Engineering experience with at least 2 years experience managing high-performing engineers
- You have an empathetic leadership style and care deeply about helping others achieve their goals
- You have experience in building complex, scalable, and high-performance products, taking them from idea inception stage through to full development life cycle
- You have experience working asynchronously with global teams using tools like Slack/Teams/Jira as well as other modern communication systems
- Strong time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
- Proven results-oriented person with a strong business and technical vision
- You are passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
- You are are fluent in written and spoken English
Desirable
- You have experience working in Fintech and Payments
- You have experience working in a tech startup
- Experience in infosec
- Experience in creating robust, well-polished and documented server-to-server APIs for customers access (E.g. REST/GraphQL)
What the job involves
- At NALA, our team as well as our product is scaling up rapidly. Within the 2 years our team has grown by nearly 250% and as we start to expand our product to focus on building new revenue lines
- This will be to join one of our squads either on the NALA (B2C) or Rafiki (B2B) squads
- You'll be responsible for supporting and developing a cross-functional squad of Engineers whilst collaborating with the Product Managers
- Work closely with engineers to architect and develop best technical design and approach
- Be a key technical contributor to the team by this we mean, please expect to get your hands dirty with coding as you build high quality products for NALA
- Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
- Help individuals reach their professional goals through coaching and regular 1:1s and mentor them on right training courses, conferences, and potential stretch projects to pave way for career progression
- Develop a high performing engineering team by managing performance and providing constructive feedback regularly to team
- Build a strong team and provide support in hiring new engineers to the team
- Report status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management regularly
Application process
- Talent Screen with our People team to ensure experience and skill alinement for the role (30 minutes)
- Live coding challenge with 2 of our Engineers to assess your Go competency on a real problem (1 hour)
- Design and Architecture session with 2 of our Engineering Managers (1 hour)
- Leadership and cultural session with Nico, CTO (30 minutes)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As global enterprise has become more interwoven, and Africa grows as an economic powerhouse, financial infrastructure has failed to keep pace with growing demand. Nala is providing the financial services to meet that gap.
The company started in Tanzania as a consumer payments aggregator and has used that platform to launch a remittance business rooted in its connections with East Africa, driving down the eye-watering 10% fees for its diaspora userbase.
The FinTech startup is now looking to double down on the lucrative remittance business, onboarding more users in its newly licensed areas: the U.S. and France.
While NALA has had some success with the products its built so far, the true test for the company will be navigating the deeply complicated international infrastructure necessary for an international payments platform, all while retaining their consumer-friendly credentials.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$40m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $50.3m
Company benefits
- 35 Days Off: Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore (this includes bank holidays)
- Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
- Competitive Equity Offer
- Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
- Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
- Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks full pay for the primary care giver and 4 week full pay for the secondary caregiver.
- If you're in London we have hybrid Working: We work 3 days a week in the office (Mon, Wed, Fri) 🇬🇧
- Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch with a focus on building great working relationships with the team in our London office 🇬🇧
- Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times 🇬🇧
- Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips. 🇬🇧
- Office Fun: Play pool and table tennis when you need a break 🇬🇧
Company values
- 🔥 Customers First, Always We build NALA for our customers and not anyone else. This means whether you are in Sales, Marketing, Engineering or Finance, everyone needs to understand who our customers are, what problems we are solving and how we are competitive in the market.
- 🥇 Here to Win This is a competitive space and so we understand that the stakes are high. The prize is a huge, both in terms of monetary gain and personal achievement. Everyone at NALA comes into the company knowing what we are competing for.
- 🚄 Speed Wins Execution is the only defence. We prioritise doing and interating over agonising and waiting for “perfect”. When we ship new products and features, we learn about how this helps our customers which informs the second iteration.
- 🧠 Understand Why We ask why until we know the fundamental truth and insight that drives decision making. Through speaking to customers and deeply understanding our work, we are able to deliver game changing solutions for our customers.
Company HQ
Canary Wharf, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Benjamin Fernandes
(CEO)A Tanzanian entrepreneur and former TV Presenter. Benjamin has spent time working in the Financial Services and Digital teams of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Also attended the Stanford School of Business and the Harvard School of Government.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at NALA
- At NALA we value ambition, speed and outcomes but never at the expense of respect. Our global team spans 30+ countries with many ethnicities, beliefs, backgrounds and ways of life. It is this diversity of thought and experience that allows us to drive innovative solutions amidst the competitive world of cross boarder payments.
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