Job Vacancies At KoraPay

By keninfo April 15, 2022 Trending News 0 Comments

Job vacancies exist at Korapay, a marketplace for everything payments. The company allows businesses and institutions to scale faster by providing them with a robust and powerful core payment engine that eliminates the complications associated with simple and bulk transactions.

Date posted: April 14, 2022 Deadline: April 30, 2022

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Open Jobs

Front End Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer
Backend Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)
People Operations Associate
Product Manager

Method of Application

Front End Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 3 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: ICT / Computer

Responsibilities
Here are a couple of things you’ll be doing:

Create and maintain our external and internal web apps.
Collaborate with other engineers to spec, write, test, and deploy production-ready code.
Own features throughout their life cycle, from inception to supporting production.
You’ll review code and ensure best practices are employed in our web apps to ensure they’re maintainable.
Brainstorm features with product managers and designers and guide decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
Collaborate with your teammates, learn from them and teach them

Requirements
We are looking for someone who has:

At least 3 years of experience building production frontend applications with Javascript (and Typescript), React.
Experience optimizing the client-side JavaScript performance of large-scale, high-volume systems.
Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
Experience with modern browser technologies.
Experience with using REST APIs and integrating them properly within frontend applications
A passion for great user experience and is obsessed with bringing product designs to life, even the tiny details.
An eye for details and pays great attention, especially around performance, accessibility, reliability, security, and maintainability for our frontend applications.
The ability to work effectively with a team of Product Managers, Product Designers, and other Engineers.
Empathy, a collaborative spirit, a sense of humor and a positive attitude

Technologies we use:

Javascript
React, Redux, React-Query
SCSS
Jest and React Testing Library

Salary
N250,000 – N600,000 monthly.

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Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 4 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: Engineering / Technical

Responsibilities:
Create a QA process that will ensure that we consistently ship quality software.

Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements, and design test coverage plan.
Carry out functional tests and non-functional tests, including security tests, load tests, and stress tests using the necessary software testing tools.
Develop, document, and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like the test data, data validation, harness scripts, and automated scripts.
Give explicit sign off on all products quality before live deployment.
Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members.
Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.
Ensure that validated deliverables meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.

Requirements
We are looking for someone who has

At least 4 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
Experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated Testing, Test Driven Development Strategies, and other techniques.
Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.
Creative, solution-driven and a customer-focused mindset.
Sound judgment, professionalism, and patience when communicating.
High attention to detail.

Salary
N200,000 – N600,000 Monthly.

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Backend Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 4 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: ICT / Computer

Job Summary

We are looking for exceptional Software Engineers to join our Engineering team to solve some of the most challenging and interesting problems in Finance.
Our backend Infrastructure presents many unique challenges and opportunities for designing and architecting complex systems.

About this Role
Here are a couple of things you’ll be doing:

Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
Building and maintaining public and internal APIs.
Working with engineers, product managers, designers to bring our product vision to life.

Requirements
We are looking for someone who has:

At least 4 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MySQL.
Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.
Creative, solution-driven and a customer-focused mindset.
Sound judgment, professionalism, and patience when communicating.
High attention to detail
You view software engineering as art.

Technologies we use:

NodeJS
TypeScript
MySQL.

Salary
N250,000 – N600,000 monthly.

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Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

Job Type: Full Time
QualificationBA/BSc/HND
Experience3 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: ICT / Computer

About this Role
As an SRE, you will:

Manage our cloud infrastructure.
Ensure high scalability and availability of our infrastructure.
Improve our software development, deployment, and delivery process.
Design, build and maintain scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions – and then into automation.
Help us migrate from a monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture.
Working with engineers, product managers, designers to bring our product vision to life.
Implement real-time monitoring and alerting within our infrastructure.
Liaise with the Information Security team to architect & build an elastic infrastructure based on a layered security approach.

Requirements
We are looking for someone who has:

At least 3 years of experience maintaining and deploying highly available, fault-tolerant systems at scale.
Experience with Azure and AWS cloud services.
Experience with Linux and the Unix Shell.
Experience working on distributed systems.
Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef).
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform, Cloudformation).
Excellent writing and communication skills in English.
You take security very seriously.
Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.
Creative, solution-driven, and a customer-focused mindset.
Sound judgment, professionalism, and patience when communicating.
High attention to detail.

Why Korapay:

We pay competitively in the Nigerian market for the matched experience and role depending on your qualifications and experience.
We have excellent benefits that include Health Insurance coverage, stock options, training, etc.
You’ll get to work with other experienced, high-performing engineers and teammates to build impactful products.

Salary
N250,000 – N700,000 monthly.

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People Operations Associate

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 2 – 3 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: Human Resources / HR

About The Role

As a People Operations Associate at Korapay, you will be working closely with the People Operations Manager in designing and implementing solutions to ensure that we have a thriving environment for our Koraites.
You’ll play a key role in HR administration, understanding the various employee touchpoints and ensuring Koraites have the best employee experience.
You will be responsible for onboarding and offboarding, employee engagement, performance management, and people analytics & reporting.

Responsibilities
Here are a couple of things you’ll be doing:

Onboarding: Champion the onboarding of new hires in accordance with the agreed checklists and procedures, organize the induction in collaboration with the stakeholders and work with the People Operations Manager to constantly improve the onboarding process.
Offboarding: Work closely with the offboarding stakeholders to manage the offboarding process while ensuring a seamless employee experience.

Employment Engagement and Wellness:

Work with the People Operations Manager to facilitate engagement initiatives.
Plan logistics for internal and external events e.g. monthly meetings, employee celebrations, team bonding activities, retreats, etc.
Work with the People Operations Manager to come up with activities for special days and notable events.
Respond to employee inquiries and queries – leave management, policies, employee benefits, etc.
Assist with engagement initiatives like pulse checks, employee surveys, etc.
People Reporting & Analytics: You will work closely with the People Operations Manager to extract, manipulate and prepare periodic reports to make informed decisions.
Performance Management: Work with the People Operations Manager to work with the different teams to drive the performance management process and prepare period performance management reports.
Coordinate and manage all activities relating to employee background/ reference checks.
Research and Information Gathering: You will be responsible for researching trends on keeping Koraites engaged. You will spend some time researching current labor laws, trends, fun activities, and projects to keep our people engaged and productive.

Here’s What Are we Looking For

Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree
2 – 3 years experience in Human Resources.
Passion for people.
Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients and an ability to influence stakeholders.
Someone who is passionate about ensuring that our people have the topmost experience while they work. To succeed in this role, you should have great empathy a collaborative spirit, a sense of humor, and a positive attitude.
Great written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as good presentation skills.
You are exceptionally driven and autonomous.
You are creative and you have always wanted to showcase your creativity in a people capacity.
You’re highly data-driven and comfortable with numbers, using charts, excel, and other analytical tools.
Ability to exhibit high levels of professionalism, integrity, and ethical values at all times.
Ability to plan and prioritize own work under tight deadlines, as well as to work on own initiative and as a member of a team.
You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment – because we are a startup, we need someone that can easily adapt and work quickly to achieve results.
Finally, you are an out-of-the-box thinker and think of new ways to disrupt the status quo.

Salary
N150,000 – N250,000 monthly.

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Product Manager

Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 3 years
Location: Lagos
Job Field: Media / Advertising / Branding

Responsibilities
General:

Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.
Work closely with the Engineering team to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources.

Research Market Needs:

Review market data and complete an informative analysis of findings.
Develop a product strategy that guides the team towards goals that meet the needs of both the end-user and business.
Ensure all stakeholders have a solid understanding of the product and its capabilities to ensure company-wide success.
Manage product releases – Draft and distribute product briefs to ensure the smooth introduction of every new release.
Answer questions and troubleshoot issues throughout the release lifecycle.

Practice Customer Centric Development:

Work with clients to understand their unique needs and pain points.
Capture and share client feedback with the team to best investigate ways to create a solution.
Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure features and functionality are meeting market needs in new and innovative ways.
Report the success of the products and strategize improvements needed.
Agile Management – Run daily rituals like scrum, backlog grooming, planning, and retrospective for a cross-functional team. Monitor the progress of issues and provide solutions for the Engineering team.
Partner with the Engineering team to translate customer needs into workable technology solutions within the agreed timelines.
Draw insights from user research, experiments, and industry trends to set the team strategy and prioritize projects that sustainably grow our customer base and drive the adoption of new products.
Work closely with the Engineering, Design, Sales, and Analytics teams to grow our customer base through conversion rate optimization, retention, and re-engagement initiatives.

Own the Entire Product by:

Translating product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes.
Defining the product strategy and product roadmap.
Managing the product throughout its lifecycle from conception to finish.
Collecting, managing, and maintaining traceability of requirements from all stakeholders across product releases.
Writing product requirements and market requirements documents.
Monitor data, reports, and improve product performance.
Run trials and MVPs while developing and delivering go-to-market strategies, and market launch plans.
Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding both internally and externally.
Also, be ready to do whatever it takes to make your product successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
A minimum of 3 years experience as a Product Manager in a B2B environment and/or financial services and/or banking industry.
Demonstrable experience managing product cycles from ideation to
Excellent analytical ability with experience in defining, tracking, and reporting on key success metrics.
The ability to work with a strong methodology and process to drive product decisions.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
The ability to communicate, collaborate, and influence effectively across all stakeholders.
Proven ability in developing product and marketing strategies and effectively communicating recommendations.
Proven record in managing all aspects of the product life cycle.
Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
You love to create new products and are always thinking of ways to improve existing ones.
Finally, you are eager to learn and interact with both internal and external customers.

Benefits

Competitive Salary
Health Insurance Coverage
Sponsored and Tailored trainings
Work Flexibility and
The opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building the future of payments in Africa.

Remuneration
N250,000 – N600,000 monthly.