Senior Fullstack Engineer

About the Company:

Capi helps businesses in Africa pay their international suppliers. We’ve raised over $18m from Creandum, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Firstminute, Janngo, Kima Ventures, and some great angels from Revolut, Checkout, Stripe, Onfido, and Remitly.

Capi was founded by Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle, and Tom Watson. Mitch and Scott were COO/CFO/GC and CRO/CMO at Taptap Send, a remittance unicorn, and have spent two decades between them working in emerging markets. Tom is a third-time founder having founded Hubble and P4SD.

About the role

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)

• This is a hybrid role, with 3 days in office and 2 days WFH, unless you are a remote applicant (i.e. not based in France or the U.K.)

Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds.