Senior Frontend Engineer, Capi
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3+ days a week in office
Overseas payments for African importers
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Overseas payments for African importers
21-100 employees
Posted today
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3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give businesses in Africa the same price and speed as businesses expect in the US and Europe.
Role
Who you are
- A product mindset is core to how we build - everyone at Capi is encouraged to think about the customer, the business, and the long-term impact of what we ship
- Experience in a VC-backed or high-growth 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
- Based in London or Paris
Desirable
- French speaking
- Experience in Fintech, payments and/or emerging markets
What the job involves
- You’ll join a small, high-performing team of engineers and product leaders shaping how we scale our platform and our impact
- You will have the opportunity to work closely as the founding team to shape the product vision and all parts of our technical architecture
- As we scale our products and deepen our presence across emerging markets, 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
- Create beautiful web interfaces for business owners in Africa and interactive dashboard experiences using technologies such as React, Next.js, JavaScript, CSS
- Ensure our UI components and libraries are reliable, secure, extensible and accessible
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, product managers, designers, and other members of the team to create a cutting-edge product
- 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:
- Automated payouts and AI invoice approval
- Onboarding + payment automation with Swift network and banking partners across the world
- Revamped Customer onboarding processes
- 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
- Ideal Start date: December 2025 (we are aware that a notice period may need to be fulfilled and can adjust accordingly)
Our take
In Africa, goods importers pay as much as 10% to settle their invoices - and wait weeks for the payment to arrive. Capi is setting out to combat this, with its international payments platform built specifically for importers in Africa.
Through the platform, users can pay suppliers in EUR, UDS or GBP. All at competitive rates and with settlement in just 24 hours. This is a significant improvement to the present situation, which makes Capi stand out almost by default.
With strong support from investors, with a 17.2 million euro Series A raise in 2025, Capi is in a good position to broaden its impact in the future, as it strives towards a future where African companies have the same quality of payments as in the US and Europe.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Capi is trying to solve a massive challenge in financial services by supporting African SMEs paying their suppliers, therefore the work is always..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2025
$20m
SERIES A
Mar 2023
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $20.2m
Company benefits
- 25 days of annual + bank holidays
- 4 weeks of work from anywhere in the world
- Hardware provided - MacBook, monitor etc
- Pension Scheme
- Private health and medical insurance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Regular company socials and offsite retreats
- Weekly team lunches paid by Capi
- WeWork Office - near Old Street (includes pass, free coffee/beer, amenities and kitchen facilities)
Company values
- We go the extra mile for customers - Capi serves businesses in emerging markets: their needs, struggles, and insights drive everything we do. We go the extra mile to understand our customers’ problems, spending time in their warehouses, down at the port, at trade fairs, or drinking tea with them. As we scale, it will become harder to stay close to every entrepreneur we serve, but we will invest in the people and systems to do this.
- Always be curious - We thrive in complexity across cultures and contexts, from supplier hubs in Yiwu to bustling markets in Lomé. There is no “business as usual” and our assumptions won’t guide us - only our curiosity can. This curiosity isn’t just about others - it’s also about ourselves. We build from first principles, question our biases, and aren’t afraid to ask stupid questions. This is what fuels innovation, builds trust, and ensures we’re solving the right problems in the right ways.
- Move fast and don’t break things - We act with urgency, ensuring our customers, partners, and regulators experience high-quality and timely service. When obstacles slow us down, we do what it takes to get back on pace, like getting on a plane or joining a whole-team sprint. We prioritise getting things done over perfection — but in a regulated industry that’s not always possible, so we constrain our speed with prudence and good judgment.
- Build resilience from hard things - We recognise that we are addressing inherently hard problems and that set-backs occur regularly. When they do, we remain calm and solutions focused. When we make mistakes, we own them and learn from them openly. Our mission will take time to achieve and so we support one another to stay resilient, both mentally and physically, ready to face the next challenge together.
- Extraordinary talent, no egos - Our mission is too important (and difficult) to hire anyone but the best performers. We seek people who are default owners and extraordinarily effective. We also believe that how we achieve our mission matters: we leave ego at the door, put team before self, and believe no task is beneath us.
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Mitch R.
(Co-Founder & CEO)Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund, former COO/CFO/GC at Taptap Send, and was Regional Director and Evaluation Lead at GiveDirectly.
Phil Efstathiou
(Founding Engineer)Also Founder at Osma, co-founded and was CTO at Alva and was a Software Engineer at Babylon Health and Thriva Health.
Scott Liddle
(Co-Founder)Previously Head of Markets (CRO & CMO) at Taptap Send, Founder at SpareHand and Director of Policy at Rory for London.
People progressing
Previously with ReD Associates, and then Central Growth Lead at Taptap Send; promoted from Commercial Lead to Head of Growth at Capi.
Founding Engineer at Capi, promoted to Head of Product.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Capi
Sophia Guy-White (Head of People & Communications )
- We currently have 50 team members from over 15 different nationalities. As you can imagine, that is a lot of languages spoken! We all love to travel and learn about each other's cultures. The team is currently 60% male and 40% female identifying, with a goal to be 50/50 in the next 12-18 months.
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