About the Company:
Capi helps businesses in Africa pay their international suppliers. We’ve raised over $18m from Creandum, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Firstminute, Janngo, Kima Ventures, and some great angels from Revolut, Checkout, Stripe, Onfido, and Remitly.
Capi was founded by Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle, and Tom Watson. Mitch and Scott were COO/CFO/GC and CRO/CMO at Taptap Send, a remittance unicorn, and have spent two decades between them working in emerging markets. Tom is a third-time founder having founded Hubble and P4SD.
About the role
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:
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Contribute to the product process from end-to-end, from ideation to building the UI, backend logic, deployment, feedback and measurement
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Build intuitive and performant web interfaces for business owners in Africa
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Implement IT security and data protection best practices in a regulated environment
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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
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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:
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WhatsApp bot that creates quotes for customers based on their responses
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Self-serve onboarding flow that collects company information and KYC documents from customers
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Asynchronous workers that OCR invoices
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Internal tooling to manage and process millions of dollars of transactions
Our stack is: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL
Requirements
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Experience in a VC-backed engineering team and building products used by customers
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A strong understanding of web development, frontend and backend best practices
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions with both technical and non-technical team members and customers
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You care about our mission and solving the problems faced by African businesses
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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
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Based in London or Paris
Nice to Haves
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French speaking
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Experience in Fintech and/or emerging markets
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Expertise in security and data protection best practices
Additional information
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This is a full-time position with competitive salary, share options, and benefits
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Start date: Immediately (with flexibility)
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The role is hybrid and we are in the office together 3 days/week
Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds.
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What We Do
Capi helps businesses in Africa pay their overseas suppliers. Importers of goods in Africa pay up to 10% to settle an invoice and wait weeks for the payment to arrive. We’re on a mission to give businesses in Africa the same price and speed as businesses expect in the US and Europe.
We're backed by Firstminute Capital, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Raba, Kima Ventures, Africa Fintech Collective, Musha Ventures, Four Cities, former a16z and YC partners (including Paul Graham), scouts from a16z and Sequoia, and co-founders and operators from Onfido, Taptap Send, McKinsey, Earnest, GiveDirectly, and Turquoise Mountain
