Employment Opportunities at Sterling Bank Plc, 17th July, 2019
Sterling Bank Plc "Your one-customer bank" is a full service national commercial bank in Nigeria. In over 50 years of operations, Sterling Bank (formerly NAL Bank) has evolved from the nation’s pre-eminent investment banking institution to a fully-fledged commercial bank; and completed a merger with 4 other banks - Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank, Magnum Trust Bank, NBM Bank and Trust Bank of Africa - as part of the 2006 consolidation of the Nigerian banking industry.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Nigeria
Description
We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers who want to build a career out of making BIG things happen. Join us if you're:
- An operational mastermind, Interested in building products used by our customers at a rapid pace.
- A proven performer with ample experience in managing teams, and client relationships.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as a Project Manager?
- The Project Manager manages major projects from inception through completion and are primarily responsible for managing client expectation and ensuring that delivery meets expectations. Responsibilities include create and manage budget and schedules, coordinate design staff, document meetings and work sessions, generate reports, track progress, deliverables and results, and maintain team morale. The PM serves as the primary contact for the clients, internal and external team.
- This position requires someone who can consistently provide excellent customer service to accounts, as well as represent client needs and goals within the organisation to ensure quality. Your experience should demonstrate: The ability to work well with clients and with in-house teams and a strong understanding of the project management process.
How Will You Create Impact?
- Project Managers are key enablers for other consultants and partner staff. They manage the complete lifecycle of large and complex projects. PM’s have a passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.
Other responsibilities include:
- Participate in and assist with overall project management activities as needed by the broader project management team;
- Manage the interface with the client and internal departments
- Acting as a focal point for all technical and commercial aspects of projects within the Project Managers Control
- Project planning, including resource identification, from sales handover through to delivery and ensuring an on-time delivery
- Project cost control, including management and accountability for the project cash flow and man-hours forecasting, ensuring that the projects are delivered within budget
- Manage scope variations to ensure that project margins are maximised
How Will We Help You Grow?
- As a project Manager, you will get the chance to refine your skills—building and bringing disruptive products to life. You will learn how to drive the development of multiple products, manage leading clients,and push the strategic thinking of both technical and nontechnical teams..
This might be for you if you have
- Understanding and experience using Agile methodology
- Experience with Project management in Information Technology organizations
- Experience across both digital, agile-focused project management (e.g. software delivery), as well as cross-functional, multi-disciplinary project management (e.g. financial transformation projects).
- Strong analytical skills and a high capacity for conceptual thinking. Ability to develop leading edge business models, frameworks for financial analysis, and long-term business strategies that maximize shareholder value.
- Strong management and communication skills. Must be comfortable delivering formal presentations to senior management.
- A solid track record of building strong client relationships with large organizations, as well as identifying opportunities to deepen those relationships and grow the business.
Nice to have:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certified.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
What the hiring process looks like... typically
Apply:
- Found a great role? Great!
- Focus on your resume.
- This is the first piece of information we’ll see about you, so highlight your most relevant achievements and experience
Interview:
- We interview differently.
- It Starts with a phone call
- With the Hiring Manager. Then an onsite interview with a few key team members. (Number of Interviews can Vary by role and seniority)
Decide:
- Got the job?
- Yes...Yaaay!
- The Hiring process can at times stretch out over weeks. However If you are the final candidate, you will be contacted to discuss the job offer.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: User Researcher
Location: Nigeria
Details
We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers who want to build a career out of making BIG things happen. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by our customers at a rapid pace.
- A creative thinker with a working knowledge of mixed research methods including experimental design and data synthesis
We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as User Researcher?
- We are seeking a passionate, driven and proven User researchers to play an integral role in the early stage development of the SPOC and its products.
- This is a multi-faceted role that will touch many aspects of user research, UX design and product marketing. We are seeking an experienced candidate who thrives in work environments that require strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication.
- Successful candidates will not only have a thorough understanding of contemporary user-centered design methodologies, but also will deliver both highly analytical, as well as highly creative ideas, to product teams and other key stakeholders.
How Will You Create Impact?
- A part of this role you will work closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Engineers and other User Researchers to generate hypotheses and plans for high-impact research that helps us better understand our existing and potential customers and how to create a better product that solves their problems and meets their needs.
Other responsibilities include:
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research that deepens our understand of the user base for a variety of digital products, as well as change initiatives
- Collect and analyze user behavior through ethnographic research, analytics/server logs, online experiments (A/B testing), card sorting, benchmark studies, lab studies, and surveys
- Effectively communicate research insights & findings to product teams and stakeholders, leading with data-driven analysis, via written reports and oral presentations
- Grow our user research and insights capability as our product teams and portfolio expand, establishing an effective and continuous user engagement process
How Will We Help You Grow?
- In a design career at SPOC, you will learn how to best understand clients’ needs, collaborate with a wide variety of technical and nontechnical professionals, and manage your own teams.
- You will become an expert in your field and will have the opportunity to have an impact on world-leading enterprises.
This might be for you if...
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivated
- Ability to provide analytical advice, excellent written & verbal communication with presence and maturity
- Substantial experience conducting semi-structured interviews, contextual field visits, and usability studies, both live and remotely
- Exceptional process skillsexhibits strong followthrough and accountability
- Strong work ethic & service-mentality
- Extremely strong written and verbal presentation skills
- Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability
Nice to have
- An understanding of psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, human-computer interaction, human factors, human-centered design, or other related field
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing UX research studies, with global scope
- Experience with a breadth of UX research techniques, including ethnographic research, quantitative/qualitative analysis, online experiments (A/B and usability testing), card sorting, concept provocation and surveys
- A working knowledge of mixed research methods including experimental design and data synthesis
- A portfolio demonstrating your research work and if applicable, design work, is a plus
What the hiring process looks like... typically
Apply:
- Found a great role? Great!
- Focus on your resume.
- This is the first piece of information we’ll see about you, so highlight your most relevant achievements and experience
Interview:
- We interview differently.
- It Starts with a phone call
- With the Hiring Manager. Then an onsite interview with a few key team members. (Number of Interviews can Vary by role and seniority)
Decide:
- Got the job?
- Yes...Yaaay!
- The Hiring process can at times stretch out over weeks. However If you are the final candidate, you will be contacted to discuss the job offer.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- We're looking for a Data Scientist excited to help *build the best digital banking products
- You'll have the opportunity to super charge our user growth to help shape the future of what we build
- You will enjoy working alongside brilliant engineers and product managers, with the opportunity to see your insights turned into real products on a regular basis.
About this Role
Our Data Science team's mission is to:
- Enable us to Make Better Decisions, Faster
This mission encompasses three major areas of work:
- Product analytics, to help teams understand our customers and improve our app
- Domain analytics, to support teams who are working in specific banking disciplines (e.g., lending, operations, finance, and financial crime), and
- Machine learning, where we design and build system that automate decisions across products.
While we take a flexible approach and frequently help each other across these areas, we each have one domain as our primary focus. We work in cross-functional squads, so every data scientist is a member of the central data team as well as fully embedded into another team alongside engineers, designers, product managers etc.
As part of your role, you'll:
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our products and how those insights can inform our product strategy
- Monitor key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes in metrics
- Guide and enable product teams to measure things that matter; initiate or help run A/B experiments to keep improving everything we do
- Drive together with the finance team a unified company-wide understanding of the lifetime value of our users and how different product features are impacting user profitability
- Liaise with engineers to keep making sure we collect the right data to produce relevant business insights
Logistics:
- Our main office is in Marina Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.
Requirements
You should apply if:
- You're impact driven* and eager to have a real positive impact on the company, product, users and very importantly your colleagues as well
- You're *commercially minded* and can put numbers into business perspective
- You are focused on results and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of a product.
- You’re as comfortable getting hands-on as taking a step back and thinking strategically
- You have a *self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
- You're a *team player* whom your colleagues can rely on
- You have solid grounding in a scripting language (e.g. Python, Perl)
Qualifications & Characteristics
As an ideal candidate for this role, you would have:
- At least 2 years of professional experience doing quantitative analysis for product or growth analytics, preferably in a fast moving tech company
- Experience in conducting large scale A/B experiments in the past
- A solid understanding of statistics (e.g. hypothesis testing, regressions)
- The ability to communicate the results of analyses with the rest of your team to influence the future strategy of the product and business
- Experience manipulating data sets through statistical software (ex. R, SAS, pandas) or other methods
- Experience automating analyses and authoring pipelines via MongoDB and python based ETL frameworks
What the hiring process looks like... typically
- An on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
- A short meeting with our head of engineering.
You'll be given an offer if you can pass these two stages
.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Quality Analyst
Location: Nigeria
Job Descriptions
- We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers who want to build a career out of making BIG things happen. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by our customers at a rapid pace.
- A strategic thinker who can work to solve our products' most critical problems and achieve significant and sustainable improvements in their quality performance and customer satisfaction
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As a QA here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as our Quality Analyst?
- In a quality assurance job, you will be responsible for developing test strategies, automation, and execution of test cases for a variety of digital products to ensure product functionality.
- You will make sure that our products meet high quality standards.
- You will translate complex business and product requirements into simple and manageable test cases to design a customized approach and achieve the highest quality and compliance.
How Will You Create Impact?
- You will work with a talented cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product experts to ensure that our products meet the highest quality and compliance standards.
- You will work on test-scenario development, test-data evaluation, code debugging, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
How Will We Help You Grow?
- During your quality assurance career, you will learn and develop expertise in industry-leading quality-assessment tools and technologies, and you will develop an ability to troubleshoot and fix time-sensitive production issues effectively.
- Moreover, you will learn how to interact with clients, collaborate with a wide variety of technical and nontechnical professionals, and manage your own teams.
- You will become an expert in quality assurance and a trusted advisor to large companies’ product development and IT departments.
Job Requirements
This might be for you if:
- Proven hands-on software development/testing experience
- Strong testing aptitude, instincts, and ability to evaluate quality across a broad spectrum of features
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and processes
- Desire to improve self and team beyond present
- Ability to successfully communicate using data
- Experiences as an auditor, quality engineer, compliance analyst, quality assurance specialist, or compliance specialist with a major pharmaceutical organization
- Experience with a complete software development and release cycle
- Experience developing or leveraging technology to enhance the testing process
Nice to have:
- Experience with Excel, SQL and/or other data analysis tools
- Experience managing external quality failures, 483s and Warning Letters, and/or managing a product recall
- Certified Quality Auditor or Engineer (CQA, CQE) nice to have
- Strong knowledge of ISO, FDA, EMA and ICH requirements
- Experience designing, developing and adapting technologies and processes to enhance testing capabilities
- Demonstrated use of technical knowledge of feature-area design to identify and prevent bugs
What the Hiring Process looks like Typically
Apply - Found a great role? Great!
Focus on your resume.:
- This is the first piece of information we’ll see about you, so highlight your most relevant achievements and experience
Interview - We interview differently.
It Starts with a phone call:
- With the Hiring Manager. Then an onsite interview with a few key team members. (Number of Interviews can Vary by role and seniority)
Decide - Got the job?
Yes...Yaaay!:
- The Hiring process can at times stretch out over weeks. However If you are the final candidate, you will be contacted to discuss the job offer.
We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to this process, or have other restrictions. If any of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer an alternative *please* let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of circumstances.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office - you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing - physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Nigeria
Details
We’re hiring! We believe remarkable talent, enthusiasm, and creative thinking add up to great work.. Join us if you're:
- An organisational mastermind, Interested in building products used by our customers at a rapid pace.
- An inventive thinker who can drive a lean and agile development process, and ensure the seamless delivery of a product vision that fits the needs of our corporate partners.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As a Product Manager here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as a Product Manager?
- You will champion product development capabilities and agile practices for the products we build. You will partner with cross-functional teams to understand the problems we aspire to solve, challenging assumptions, and testing hypothesis. You will develop user personas and user journeys to create user empathy and understanding within the team.
- You will leverage your understanding of key agile methodologies, lean practices and modern product development best practices. This may come in the form of concept sprints, define hypothesis, creating lo-fidelity tests in client situations, and build the work-plans across product, knowledge and the transformation recipe.
How Will You Create Impact?
- You’ll work in collaboration with our design and engineering teams and drive lean, agile-based incubation and commercialisation processes.
- You will facilitate the product requirements gathered across teams and manage procedures and deadlines to ensure a successful delivery of products.
How Will We Help You Grow?:
- As you progress in your career as a product manager, you will develop the skills required to bring disruptive products to life.
- You will develop awareness of digital technology, strategy, business planning, user experience design, engineering, and agile development practices.
This might be for you if...
- We are looking for professionals with a demonstrated and focused desire to build products and services—and a strong understanding of digital technologies. Experience launching multiple digital products and an ability to think strategically and creatively are key for our product managers.
- We are interested in people who are able to manage their time and meet aggressive deadlines. You should be someone who pays diligent attention to detail and has strong technical intuition, as well as the ability to set and manage expectations at the executive level.
Nice to have
- Experience with Web site development
- Ability to operate in a high-energy, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment
- Project/change management experience implementing new ways of working
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Logistics:
- What the hiring process looks like... typically.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Backend Engineer
Location: Lagos
Details
- We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
- An experienced Backend Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable web platforms.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as our Backend Engineer?
- You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.
- Define and deliver resilient software that meets and exceeds the expectations of your team, managers, and product stakeholders.
- Develop readable, testable, and maintainable code to spec.
- Commitment to continued technical and professional growth.
- Interfacing with stakeholders to understand their business, goals, and visions for products supported by the product organisation.
- Lending your knowledge and positive approach to overall team development.
Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to:
- NodeJs + TypeScript
- Kubernetes + Helm
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- MongoDB
- Elastic Search + Kibana + FluentD
- Github + CircleCI
You should apply if:
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
- You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
- You’re interested in building distributed systems and tackling the fun challenges and complexity that comes with that.
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidate for this role you have:
- At least 2 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, writing code for web applications
- Are proficient in writing code in Javascript or TypeScript, and enjoy learning new languages.
- Familiarity with SQL or NoSQL databases like Postgres or MongoDB.
- Familiarity with key-value databases like Redis or memcached.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and tools.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests.
- Good knowledge of Docker, container orchestration and microservices architecture
- Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and deploying applications
- Exposure to Agile methodologies.
- Experience working remotely as an effective member of a team.
- Fun collaborating, problem-solving, and being part of a team environment.
- A vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written).
- The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and limited supervision.
- The ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
Logistics:
- Our main office is in Marina, Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.
What the hiring process looks like... typically:
- A take-home technical test which usually lasts for a week.
- An on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
- A short meeting with our head of engineering.
You'll be given an offer if you can pass these three stages.
- We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to this process, or have other restrictions.
- If any stage of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer an alternative *please* let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of circumstances.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office-you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing-physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Front-end Engineer
Location: Marina, Lagos
Brief
We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by our customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
- An experienced Front-End Engineer that is passionate about building web applications that scale across desktop and mobile.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as our Frontend engineer?
- You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.
- Writing accessible and performant code while working with design systems.
- Interfacing with product stakeholders and team leads to discuss and craft details of new product features on the front-end side.
- Working with backend engineers to build scalable and functional applications that meet customer needs.
- Building beautiful web interfaces for products based on design specifications.
- Working with product owners and designers to craft awesome marketing pages that tell the story of a product while delivering a great web experience.
- Frameworks, and technologies we use include but are not limited to:
- Vue + Vuex
- Webpack
- Nuxt
- React + Redux
- Netlify
- GSAP
- Github
This might be for you if
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
- You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
- You can transform visual designs (UI) into pixel-perfect execution
- You understand the huge role design plays in your development process and are able to work closely with product designers as well as backend engineers to build a product that's both functional and delivers a great user experience.
- You have experience building applications for multiple devices, and are familiar with concepts such as progressive enhancement.
- You are constantly up to date with the latest HTML5 and CSS3 web standards including concepts like layout, specificity, and cross browser compatibility
- You have interacted with APIs, written end-to-end testing and consider performance, accessibility and security when building web applications.
- You have developed modern component-oriented JavaScript applications using modern frameworks and libraries. Some of the technologies and products we currently use include Vue, React, Flow, Apollo, Jest, Cypress, Nuxt, Gatsby, Contentful.
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You’re comfortable working with ambiguity every day, being a Web Engineer on the team, and are able to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
Nice to have:
- A good sense of design
- Knowledge of UI animations and familiarity with animation tools
- A GitHub account with some cool projects in it
- A portfolio that shows relevant projects
Additional Information
Logistics:
- Our main office is in Marina, Lagos, although you have the opportunity to work remotely.
What the hiring process looks like... typically:
- An initial phone screen
- A take-home code test (other options are available if this doesn't work for you for whatever reason) with a call to review your solution
- An on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview)
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: iOS Engineer
Location: Nigeria
Details
We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
- An IOS Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable mobile applications.
We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About the role
What will you be doing as our IOS Engineer?
- You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.
Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including NodeJs, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Redis. As an IOS Engineer you will:
- Design and build advanced, scalable applications for the IOS platform
- Work with the Product and Design teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them pragmatic and effective technical solutions
- Integrate with our backend services to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users
- Own end-to-end product modules/features from requirement to going live
- Design and review code, troubleshoot and act as a consultant to team members on technical matters
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
You should apply if:
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
- You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
- You're proud about your craft and want to apply your skills building a product that will bring value to thousands of users.
Qualifications & Characteristics
- 2+ years experience with full life cycle IOS application development and publishing Apple apps in the play store.
- Worked on apps which support multiple IOS devices.
- Experience in working with third-party libraries and APIs.
- Proficient with Objective-C or Swift and Cocoa Touch
- Experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.
- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services
- Knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards
What the hiring process looks like... typically
- Our interview process consists of an initial phone screen, a take-home code test with a call to review your solution, and a half-day on-site interview.
The on-site consists of two rounds:
iOS technical:
- You'll meet 2 other iOS engineers. Together we'll go over some technical challenges we've faced as a company. We'll ask you to come up with designs to solve these problems, and we'll ask you questions about your experience using Swift in production.
General technical:
- You'll meet 2 engineers from different disciplines. We'll go through some technical problems you've solved in the past, and we'll go through some general engineering problems together. We're not testing your knowledge, but how you respond to problems you haven't solved before.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity And Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing—physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Copywriter
Location: Nigeria
Details
- We’re hiring! We believe remarkable talent, enthusiasm, and creative thinking add up to great work.. Join us if you're:
- A quick learner with a versatile writing style. Interested in building products used by our customers at a rapid pace.
- A creative thinker with excellent writing and research skills to work as our full-time, in-house copywriter
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As a writer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
About this Role
What will you be doing as our Copywriter:
- You will own and drive a consistent stream of high quality content and innovative engagement campaigns across internal and external channels.
- You will iterate and deliver on an innovative, effective communications strategy, leveraging a range of approaches and channels. You will also execute and elevate existing communication materials.
- You’ll also develop and create new and engaging content for a variety of new channels and innovative campaigns (e.g., podcast series, articles, videos, infographics, etc.)
How Will You Create Impact:
- You will work with a talented cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and product experts to create high-quality, targeted content for multiple audiences and solutions - from thought leadership and industry commentary to product messaging and short-form digital and social communications.
How Will We Help You Grow:
- Learn the frameworks and methodologies to assist stakeholders in shaping content strategies. But we won’t stop there – there will be an opportunity to learn all aspects of digital marketing, PR, sales enablement and other areas, dependent on desire, skillset and readiness.
Requirements
This might be for you if you have...
- Excellent storytelling skills and are a curator of content
- An ability to identify and create content that works to drive a conversation and increase engagement among internal and external audiences
- Solid problem solving and strategic thinking coupled with a strong execution orientation; ability to execute independently and flawlessly
- Understanding of channels and publishing platforms, including email, podcasting, video, digital, etc.
- Strong writing and editorial skills, including ability to tailor style / voice; distill complex ideas into accessible copy; as well as to maintain an editorial calendar
- A high degree of personal ownership to ensure quality work products are delivered
Nice to have:
- Experience with Web site development
- Ability to operate in a high-energy, high-intensity and rapidly evolving environment
Logistics:
- What the hiring process looks like... typically.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity and Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing - physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Job Title: Android Engineer
Location: Lagos
Detailed Description
- We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers to help us build the bank of the future. Join us if you're:
- Interested in building products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
- An experienced Android Engineer that is passionate about building scalable and reliable mobile applications.
- We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialise or move between teams. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company.
Our Android app toolset
- You'll get to work with industry standard tools and technologies - and help us define what great looks like for Android engineers.
- Our app is almost 100% Kotlin, built using MVP (Model View Presenter). Our app is modularised by product feature and consists of beautiful unconventional XML inflated layouts.
- We use a mix of RxJava and Kotlin Coroutines, Retrofit and OkHttp for API calls and Dagger2 for dependency injection. We use Room for persistence, and Repositories for interacting with them.
About the Role
What will you be doing as our Backend Engineer?
- You'll be working as part of a cross disciplinary group to clearly understand user needs, challenging assumptions, iterating quickly to learn fast, using data and running experiments to evaluate solutions to develop secure, robust, and maintainable solutions at pace.
- Our product sits on top of many modern technologies, including NodeJs, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Redis. As an Android Engineer you will:
- Design and build advanced, scalable applications for the Android platform
- Work with the Product and Design teams to understand end-user requirements and use cases and translate them pragmatic and effective technical solutions
- Integrate with our backend services (JSON, REST, etc.) to make sure we are delivering a great mobile user experience that is super-fast for end users
- Own end-to-end product modules/features from requirement to going live
- Design and review code, troubleshoot and act as a consultant to team members on technical matters
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
Requirements
You should apply if:
- You love building products in cross disciplinary teams using an iterative approach, driven by customer feedback and data insight.
- You deeply care about providing a great user experience to our users, and understand the impact that technology can have on this.
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between development velocity and code quality.
- You’re comfortable working with in a team that deals with ambiguity every day, not afraid to take the lead on technical and strategic decision-making.
- You are a keen learner and love sharing your knowledge with others.
- You're proud about your craft and want to apply your skills building a product that will bring value to thousands of users.
Qualifications & Characteristics:
- 2+ years experience with full life cycle Android application development and publishing Android apps in the play store.
- Worked on apps which support multiple Android devices.
- Knowledge about Kotlin, collections, algorithms and well-known application frameworks.
- Understanding of interactive application development paradigm under Android, memory management, file I/O, network programming, concurrency and multi-threading.
- Good understanding of design patterns, the latest framework and technical, including RxAndroid, Kotlin Coroutines, Lambda expressions and dependency injection.
- Experience in working with third-party libraries and APIs.
- Experience with testing frameworks, including Robolectric and Espresso is a plus.
Logistics:
- Our main office is in Marina Lagos, though you have the opportunity to work remotely twice a week.
Benefits
What can you expect from us? We offer good people, inspiring work and the opportunity to help build great products as well as the following benefits:
Competitive Salary:
- To ensure that we recognise and reward when your responsibilities increase, we review salaries every 6 months.
Work Tool:
- Get the work-tool of your choice plus accessories to improve your workflow.
Work From Home:
- Get things done-from home or an office. We encourage everyone to work from home twice a week to keep us remote-friendly.
Holiday:
- 20 days paid holiday in a year-we encourage you to use them up, too! An additional month of unpaid work is also on the table!
Pensions:
- In building together, we're thinking about your future, too. We also care about your statutory rights.
Knowledge Sharing:
- Regular internal knowledge sharing sessions on dedicated days. We encourage teams or individuals to share fascinating stuff.
Libraries:
- Online and offline access to books and subscriptions about startups, programming, design, finance and more.
Learning and Development:
- Access to local and international trainings to improve your skills.
Team Bonding:
- Socials every month including go-karting, board game nights, dinners, samba, drumming and movie nights. There’s no pressure to attend. Retreats are a thing, too.
Health Insurance:
- Private health insurance and paid sick leave (for both your physical and mental health).
Maternity and Paternity Leave:
- Babies are like products. We don't want you to miss the biggest launch of your life.
Catered Lunch:
- Thrice a week. In addition, there's fresh fruits, biscuits, tea/coffee and soft drinks in the office—you're in for a treat!
Gym Membership:
- We care about your wellbeing - physical and mental. While you're building products, you might as well as well build your body and mind.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
Recruitment Procedure
What the hiring process looks like... typically:
- A take-home technical test which usually lasts for a week.
- An on-site interview (varies by role and seniority, but we may invite you to a technical interview, product/design-centric session, and possibly an engineering leadership interview).
- A short meeting with our head of engineering.
You'll be given an offer if you can pass these three stages.
Note
- We understand that everyone's situation is different, that you may be able to dedicate more or less time to our hiring process, or have other restrictions
- If any of our process is challenging for you and you'd like us to offer alternative or special arrangements, please let us know. We're committed to finding the right people, and don't want anyone to be excluded because of their circumstances.
- Questions about this role? Send an e-mail to: [email protected]