Full Stack Web Engineer, NALA
African and Asia cross-border payments company
Job no longer available
African and Asia cross-border payments company
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To increase economic opportunity on the African continent and for its diaspora around the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for an experienced Web UI engineer who specializes in web front-end technologies but also has a good enough understanding of backend as well
- The ideal candidate will have a passion for web front-end development, a good eye for UX/design, and has had past experience working on backends
- Proficiency in React and Typescript: Extensive experience in developing web applications using React and TypeScript, and in consuming web APIs such as RESTful, GraphQL, and gRPC
- UI/UX Design: Strong eye for UX/design to enhance user interfaces effectively
- Grasp of backend technologies: We use Golang, but it’s not a requirement. Even if you have worked with other backend languages, that's okay as long as you have a theoretical understanding of backends
- UI Testing: Experience with writing and maintaining unit tests for UI components to ensure robustness and reliability
- Agile Methodologies: Experience working in Agile environments, contributing to sprint planning, and iterative development
Desirable
- Strong backend experience: You have the ability to operate deeper within backend systems, working with database technologies, and contributing to core backend components when necessary. An extra plus if you know how to code with Golang
- GRPC and Protobuf: Experience with interacting, integrating, or developing APIs using gRPC and Protobuf
- CI/CD: Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices and tools
- Startup Culture Experience: Demonstrated experience working in a startup environment with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving and decision-making
- Remote Work Experience: Proven ability to operate effectively in a fully remote, distributed team environment
What the job involves
- As part of this mission, you will help us build slick and solid web UI to better support our customers and enable our talented internal team to seamlessly orchestrate and manage our payments engine
- You should be able to manage and operate independently on layers such as backend-for-frontends with minimal support from our dedicated backend engineering team (you won’t be expected to operate deeper down, but it's a plus if you can)
- Enhance our dedicated customers portal by adding slick UI features for self-onboarding, self-management, and sophisticated metrics and dashboards
- Improve our back-office tools to simplify the jobs of our internal teams, including treasury, finance, and customer support
- Help define strong front-end standards and good practices, contributing to our front-end culture and chapters
Application process
- [30mins] Interview with the Talent Team
- This is our initial touchpoint. We're keen to understand your motivations and experiences better. As a tip, reflecting on why you applied for this role and being familiar with your application responses will be beneficial
- [1 hour 30 minutes] Coding challenge (Front-end + backend)
- You’ll complete a pair programming exercise live, with two of our engineers. We will evaluate how you craft a web application, reason about it, and create a simple web server for the UI to consume
- [1 hour] Interview with the hiring manager
- You will be speaking with the hiring manager about the role and expectations, discussing your past experiences, and touching on situational-based questions
- [30 mins] Interview with the CTO
- The final interview will involve speaking with the CTO about your motivation for the role and will be a great opportunity to ask any questions you have about the business
- Decision
- We’ll aim to come back to you with a timely decision and feedback on your overall interview process
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 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$40m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $50.4m
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 4 days a week in the office (Mon, Wed, Thur + 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. 🇬🇧
Company HQ
Canary Wharf, London, UK
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.
Nicolas Esteves
(CTO + Co-Founder)Grew up in West Africa and brings 12 years of fintech experience including time spent building Osper and Monzo. Today Nicolas leads our engineering, data and fraud teams.
Nicolai Eddy
(COO + Co-Founder)Joined from Morningstar's quantitative index portfolios team. Nicolai, is based in our Nairobi office and leads our Rafiki business as well as treasury, finance, operations, and country teams.
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