Principal Fullstack Engineer

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 fast paced 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)
• Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds

Company Benefits

• 25 days of annual + bank holidays
• 4 weeks of work from anywhere in the world
• Hardware provided - MacBook, monitor etc
• Pension Scheme
• Equity / Shares in Capi
• Private health and medical insurance
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Regular company socials and offsite retreats
• Weekly team lunches paid by Capi
• Travel across our international offices
• WeWork Office - near Old Street (includes pass, free coffee/beer, amenities and kitchen facilities)

Interview Process

• Introdcution call - 30 mins
• Techncial deep dive w Head of Product - 1 hr
• System Design itw - 1 hr
• Founders chat - 20 mins