Job Openings at LemFi (YC S21)

LemFi (YC S21) is building the neobank for African diaspora in North America & Europe. We provide our users with a multi-currency account that allows them to hold, send, and receive money from Africa in any currency for their business and personal banking needs. We are a fast-paced startup with entities in the UK, USA, Canada and Nigeria and you would be required to familiarize yourself with necessary statutory and regulatory requirements in these locations.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) Business Development Manager - Anglophone Africa

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Work mode: Hybrid
Department: Growth

Role Overview

• We are looking for a Senior Business Development Manager - Anglophone Africa to build and scale strategic partnerships across key markets.
• This role will focus on financial institutions, regulators, aggregators, and mobile money operators, playing a critical role in expanding corridors, improving unit economics, and ensuring regulatory alignment.
• You will work closely with Treasury, Compliance, Product, and Growth teams to enable sustainable expansion.

Key Responsibilities
Partnerships & Market Expansion:

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with banks, financial institutions, aggregators, and mobile money operators
• Identify and evaluate new partners to support corridor launches and volume growth
• Own partner onboarding from initial discussions through go-live

Commercial Negotiation:

• Lead commercial negotiations, including pricing, FX margins, settlement terms, SLAs, and volumes
• Renegotiate existing contracts to improve fees, limits, liquidity, and reliability
• Structure win-win partnerships aligned with LemFi’s growth objectives

Regulatory & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Engage with regulators and regulatory bodies in collaboration with Compliance and Legal teams
• Support licensing discussions, regulatory submissions, and partner due diligence
• Act as a trusted external representative of LemFi in strategic regulatory conversations

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work closely with Treasury on funding models, liquidity planning, and settlement cycles
• Partner with Product & Engineering teams during integrations and technical rollouts
• Align with Growth and Operations to ensure partnerships support commercial goals

Performance & Optimization:

• Monitor partner performance (success rates, downtime, settlement delays)
• Identify risks and proactively manage escalation and resolution
• Continuously optimize partner mix for reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability

What We’re Looking For
Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in Business Development, Partnerships, or Commercial roles
• Fluent French Speaker
• Strong background in fintech, payments, remittances, mobile money, or banking
• Proven experience negotiating with aggregators, MNOs, or financial institutions
• Exposure to regulatory environments across multiple markets is a strong plus

Skills:

• Excellent commercial and negotiation skills
• Strong understanding of cross-border payments, FX, and settlement flows
• Ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder relationships
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Traits:

• Strategic but execution-focused
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change
• Relationship-driven with strong ownership mindset
• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of accountability

Why Join LemFi

• Work on high-impact, global payment corridors
• Direct exposure to regulators, banks, and major fintech partners
• Opportunity to shape partnerships that move millions in monthly volume
• Fast growth, strong ownership, and real decision-making responsibility

Application Closing Date: 12th March, 2026.

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2.) Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Work mode: Hybrid
Department: Technology

The Role

• We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of our cross-border payment solutions. You will work closely with development teams to test both our mobile applications (iOS/Android) and backend APIs through a mix of manual and automated testing.
• This is a hands-on role with significant technical breadth. You will improve automated coverage, validate new features, and help maintain confidence in releases across a complex financial ecosystem with deep integrations and high demands for performance and accuracy.

Responsibilities
How You’ll Contribute:

• Develop Automated Tests: Design, implement, and maintain automated tests for backend APIs, mobile apps, and integrations.
• Build Maintainable Frameworks: Create modular test components within our Java/Cucumber/Rest Assured/Appium/Guice stack.
• Partner with Engineering: Collaborate with developers and product teams to ensure clear acceptance criteria and testability.
• Validate Complex Integrations: Work with mock services, partner APIs, and distributed systems to verify behaviour and data flows.
• Improve Pipelines: Participate in code reviews, CI/CD enhancements, and continuous test execution.
• Use AI Tools: Leverage GPT/Gemini APIs for automation workflows, data generation, and test analysis.
• Evolve QA Practices: Contribute ideas to elevate QA infrastructure and strengthen automation as an engineering discipline.

Who You Are:

• Quality-Driven: You care deeply about building reliable systems and ensuring confidence in releases.
• Technically Curious: You enjoy understanding systems end-to-end and solving challenging engineering problems.
• Collaborative: You work effectively with developers, product managers, and cross-functional partners.
• Structured & Detail-Oriented: You think clearly, document well, and test thoroughly.
• Proactive: You take ownership and continuously look for ways to improve quality and automation.

Requirements
What You’ll Bring:

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions and test reporting tools like Allure.
• Strong background in QA with a focus on automation, ideally using Java.
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, backend testing, and mobile testing (Appium experience is a plus).
• Knowledge of OOP, dependency injection (e.g., Guice or Spring), and test design patterns.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and approach testing with an engineering mindset.
• Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

Application Closing Date: 21st February, 2026; at 01:00 WAT

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The Interview Process

• Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
• Behaviours & Culture Interview (45 mins)
• Technical Assignment (60 mins presentation)
• Final Interview (30 mins)

3.) Web Engineer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time
Work mode: Hybrid
Department: Technology

The Role

• You will be a full-stack engineer with main focus on Frontend working on LemFi’s operational "brain", designing the internal software that automates our most critical financial processes.
• Your mission is to transform complex, high-volume back-office tasks like payments operations, fraud investigations, and regulatory reporting into streamlined, front-end functionality.
• You won’t just be building tools; you’ll create efficient internal interfaces that empower our operations teams to move faster and with greater precision.
• By embedding AI and agentic automation into every workflow, you’ll ensure that managing global money movement is as intelligent and effortless as the user experience it supports.

Responsibilities
How You'll Contribute:

• Build & Ship: Design and deliver high-quality, scalable web features using Vue.js, with a strong focus on efficiency, security, and maintainability.
• Own the Experience: Take end-to-end responsibility for features from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and production support.
• BFF Development: Implement and maintain backend-for-frontend logic in TypeScript, shaping APIs and data models that serve the needs of the web client efficiently and securely.
• Ensure Reliability: Uphold high engineering standards through automated testing, clean code practices, and proactive monitoring of frontend and BFF services.
• Drive Cross-Functional Impact: Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver compliant, customer-centric financial experiences aligned with regulatory requirements.

Requirements
Who You Are:

• Impact-Driven: You focus on delivering meaningful user and business outcomes, not just shipping features.
• Technically Grounded: You have strong experience building business-oriented web applications and are comfortable working with TypeScript on the backend for BFF logic.
• High Ownership: You take responsibility for your work from concept through production and continuously look for ways to improve what you’ve built.
• Collaborative: You communicate clearly with Product, Design, and Engineering, valuing shared success over individual credit.
• Curious: You actively seek feedback and stay up to date with modern frontend patterns, AI tooling, and best practices.

What You'll Bring:

• Experience building production web apps with Vue.js & Nuxt.js
• Strong TypeScript skills, including BFF development
• Proficient in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SASS
• Experience working with and shaping REST APIs
• Solid understanding of modern frontend architecture, state management & performance optimisation
• Familiar with Git, testing frameworks (Jest/Mocha), build tools & CI/CD
• Working knowledge of cloud environments & Docker
• Hands-on experience using LLMs for coding and daily workflows

Why Join LemFi?

• Love shouldn’t be expensive, yet those working hardest for their families often face predatory fees and banking exclusion. We're changing this.
• At LemFi, you won’t be just a cog in a machine. Whether designing products, scaling operations, or telling our story, you’ll tackle complex challenges with real, immediate impact.
• Your work goes beyond metrics - it puts money back in families’ pockets and offers access to the previously excluded.
• Join us to make a meaningful difference, where high performance is a lifeline for millions.

Application Closing Date: 27th February, 2026; at 01:00 WAT

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The Interview Process

• Chat with a Talent Partner (30 mins)
• Behaviours & Culture (30 mins)
• Pair Programming (60 mins)
• Final Interview (30 mins)