IT/ICT Job Vacancies at Paystack Payments Limited

Paystack is an easy to setup, complete payments solution for your business. We’ve built a stack of product features addressing the different aspects of receiving payments online.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Product Manager
Location:  Lagos
About the Role

• At Paystack, we build systems that power businesses by enabling them to accept payments online.
• We are looking for a Product Manager to work with the engineering team in building and maintaining innovative product solutions for our users while nurturing the collaboration among the engineering, design, customer success, sales and business teams.

What You’ll be Doing
You will:

• Identify system and architecture issues and drive their resolution
• Prioritize tasks based on knowledge of the systems and potential user benefits
• Own the lifecycle of products from inception to production release – oversee all stages of development and make sure that blocking issues are escalated and resolved
• Maintain deep knowledge of user requirements, competitive landscape and market needs
• Implement processes and tools to track and communicate product progress and user requests
• Implement processes and procedures to ensure that products and systems stay healthy
• Stay abreast of the status of all features and bugs and ensure that stakeholders are kept informed

What it takes to Succeed at this Role
You:

• Are passionate about continuous product development and product health
• Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
• Can distill high level product requirements into manageable tasks and action items
• Can design software and make technical decisions (preferred)
• Are a clear and empathetic communicator
• Are willing to help the team in any way necessary e.g. writing code, QA, debugging

Your Experience

• Have previously worked at fast-growing internet startups (preferred)
• Have experience working with payments systems in Africa (preferred)
• Worked with cross-functional teams to build great products
• 2+ years of experience in product development and product management

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Catered lunch
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

Job Position: Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Job Location: Lagos
Job Summary

• Paystack engineers work on designing, developing and maintaining the systems that power businesses by enabling them to accept payments online.
• As a senior software engineer, you will be responsible for making sure our systems are scalable, reliable and performant.

Job Description
You will:

• Design, develop and maintain Paystack APIs, systems and services
• Participate in code, design and production-readiness reviews
• Work with our partners to provide new payment services to the market
• Work with the business, sales and customer success teams to ensure that our users have the best possible experience on our platform.
• Improve engineering processes especially through testing, monitoring and alerting
• Debug production issues across all products

What it takes to Succeed at this Role
You:

• Have strong design and problem solving skills
• Can self manage, set an implementation schedule and manage communication with team members and stakeholders
• Can mentor other engineers and lead by example
• Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and poorly defined complex problems
• Are innovative, push technical boundaries, and are excited to solve problems that have never been solved before
• Communicate in a clear and direct manner

Your Experience

• Have 3+ years work experience in a software design and development role
• Have working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
• Have previously worked at fast-growing internet startups (preferred)
• Have experience working with payments systems in Africa
• Have working knowledge of Node.js and Github for content management

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Catered lunch
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

Job Position: Junior Software Engineer, Backend
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
About the Role

• Paystack engineers work on designing, developing and maintaining the systems that power businesses by enabling them to accept payments online.
• As a junior engineer, you will be researching, suggesting, designing and developing software solutions to payment problems and making improvements to Paystack products

What You’ll be Doing
You will:

• Participate in code, design and production-readiness reviews
• Propose novel solutions to complex and interesting payments problems
• Design, develop and maintain Paystack APIs, systems and services
• Debug production issues across all products

What it takes to Succeed at this Role
You:

• Have experience working on projects and in teams (either on personal projects, or in school or at work)
• Are willing to hack and figure out how things work
• Have a strong work ethic.
• Know core CS principles (algorithms, data structures, software design) through a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in a technical subject or equivalent experience
• Know object-oriented programming principles and have experience in Node.js
• Have experience with Unix/Linux or Windows and distributed systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Catered lunch
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth

Application Instructions

• Please use the “Apply to Position” button at the top right of the page online to submit your application. Do not use the “Apply Using LinkedIn” option.

In your Application:

• Attach your CV/Resume (1 page)
• How your skills and experience make you uniquely qualified to excel in this role
• Your favourite Paystack feature and why
• Attach a cover letter (1 page) with details about:
• Why you’re interested in being a Product Manager at Paystack

Deadline  30th September, 2017.