Engineering Manager

About Paystack

Paystack’s mission is to power African ambition. Over 300K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya, use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In 10 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.

We’re obsessed with building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa, and we need your help!

What you'll be doing

• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers

• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environment

• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers

• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams.

• Work on cross-team initiatives to improve the applications and systems.

• Work in a cross-functional team to design, build, and deliver new features for our systems.

• Strive to reduce the complexity of the systems.

• Create awareness of engineering efforts and achievements.

• Partner with product and other stakeholders to drive success.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• 8+ years of experience building and working on cutting-edge solutions that scale for millions of customers.

• Solid experience with development, CI/CD, Automation, Testing, and deploying large systems.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers

• Solid experience in building systems using a variety of different architectures.

• Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, and security using best practices

• Proven history as an experienced engineer.

• A passion for building products to help African businesses.

• A proactive approach to solving a problem before it occurs.

• Mentorship - ability to successfully transfer knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, and best practices.

• Solid experience with build tools.

• Solid experience with source control, like Git.

• Hands-on experience in writing unit, integration, and UI tests.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Self-motivation that drives them to do things and pushes them to raise the bar.

• High analytical thinking to tackle complicated issues.

• High-quality working standards with a clear, structured approach.

• Takes full ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes.

• Strives to continuously improve the systems and processes.

• Bonus: Experience with EMV payments

Beneficial

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial, but is not required

• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems

• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)

• Experience with machine learning and data analytics.

Soft Skills

• Impeccable problem-solving and analytical abilities

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• High agency and the ability to work independently

• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and tools

Benefits

• 13th-month bonus

• Flexible working environment (including work from home budgets)

• Full medical coverage

• Wellbeing stipend

• Generous leave and sabbatical policies

Paystack is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender, or age.