Fresh Recruitment at Paystack Nigeria, 23rd October, 2018

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack’s mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.

Within a little over 2 years, our close-knit team has introduced a steady cadence of innovations within the Nigerian system, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay with only a bank account, automated chargebacks, and much more. We process well over $10 million in transactions monthly, and our double digit growth has us processing even more every month.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Designer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time

About the Position
Delightful interfaces. Intricate user flows. Consideration for edge cases within edge cases. The Paystack design philosophy is to transform commerce with proper design. We create and maintain financial products used by banks, merchants, and consumers to transact on the internet. Our job is to shape the way thousands of people every day do commerce.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing product features and user experiences for one or more of our various products which can range from our merchant dashboard to the customer-facing checkout form. You’ll use extensive user research to inform your design process and apply your creativity to solve unique problems for the African merchant and their end customers.

Why You’ll Want this Role

  • Solve complex challenges in finance with design
  • Be directly involved in improving the experience of online and offline commerce for thousands of people across the continent
  • Interpret rich data from analytics tools to influence your decisions
  • Run focus groups and interviews with a robust customer set
  • Work with a team that helps you perform at the highest level of craftsmanship.

What You Need for the Role

  • A passion for building digital products, with case studies to show
  • Great user interface design skills
  • A sharp mind for creative problem solving
  • Ability to create prototypes with code or without code (using tools like Framer)
  • Great writing skills to document and communicate ideas
  • Good grasp of how to use data to inform decisions
  • Organizational skills to facilitate quantitative research
  • Previous experience designing financial software is a plus.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

 

Job Title: Frontend Engineer – Web Experience

Location: Lagos

About the Position

  • In this role, you will be responsible for designing websites for product marketing. You may work on one of many customer-facing products that range from the marketing website to developer documentation.
  • You’ll create product demos, engaging micro-sites and web content that come together to tell the story of how Paystack is defining commerce in Africa.
  • You’ll also get to work on experiential online and offline projects that go beyond the screen.

Why you’ll want this Role

  • Create work that’s used by thousands of people across the continent every day
  • Be at the forefront of web experiences and bring big ideas to life
  • Interpret rich data from analytics tools to influence your work
  • Work with a team that helps you perform at the highest level of craftsmanship

Requirements
What you need for the role:

  • A passion for building websites and interactive experiences, with case studies to show
  • Great user interface design skills
  • Ability to write scalable HTML & CSS, and performant JS for DOM manipulation
  • A sharp mind for creative storytelling
  • Ability to prototype ideas to stakeholders
  • Good writing skills to document and communicate ideas
  • Good grasp of how to use data to inform decisions
  • Knowledge of web motion and animation is a plus

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

 

Job Title: Frontend Engineer – Product

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time

About the Position

  • In this role, you will be responsible for building product features and implementing user experiences for our various products.
  • At Paystack, we build and maintain multiple products which range from our merchant dashboard to the customer-facing checkout form
  • You’ll apply your understanding of Javascript, algorithms, scalability, and performance to build services and tools used by hundreds of thousands of people every day.

Why you’ll want this role

  • Solve complex challenges in finance with design
  • Be directly involved in improving the experience of online and offline commerce for thousands of people across the continent
  • Work with team members who perform at the highest level of craftsmanship
  • Work with good engineering processes and modern frameworks
  • Tackle interesting performance and scale problems

What you need for the role

  • A passion for building digital products, with case studies to show
  • Solid knowledge of Javascript, scalability, performance, security and build tools
  • Knowledge of advanced JS frameworks like React, Vue or Angular 4
  • Understanding of basic design principles
  • Ability to write scalable HTML & CSS
  • Good grasp of browser support and compatibility
  • Willingness to pick up new tools, frameworks, and technologies when required
  • A sharp mind for creative problem solving
  • Good writing skills to document and communicate ideas
  • Previous experience building financial software is a plus

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

 

Deadline: 11:59 pm; 4th November, 2018.

Application Instructions – Read carefully!
In your application:

  • Please attach your CV / Resume
  • Attach a Cover Letter – your cover letter should explain how your skills and experiences make you uniquely qualified to excel in this role.
  • Make sure to include a link to your portfolio – please include a link to a portfolio showing off your best work.