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Engineering Lagos / Remote (Africa) Full-time
Senior Engineer, Wallet
Own the money layer. Build and harden the Zela Wallet across 30+ countries: local payment rails, FX, cash-outs, escrow for brand deals.
What you'll do
- Design and ship multi-currency wallet services for creators across Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, and more
- Integrate local payment rails: Paystack, Flutterwave, M-Pesa, Pix, SPEI, GCash
- Build escrow flows for brand-deal payouts including dispute handling
- Drive FX cost down: own the spread, partner negotiations, settlement timing
- Lead reliability work: idempotency, double-entry ledger, reconciliation, monitoring
What we're looking for
- 5+ years building production payment or fintech systems
- Strong Postgres + TypeScript or Go
- Real-world experience with at least one African payment processor
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership; this role reports directly to a founder
Bonus, not required
- Prior work at a Nigerian fintech (Kuda, Flutterwave, Paystack, Carbon, Cowrywise, Bamboo)
- PCI-DSS / SOC 2 experience
- Open-source contributions to ledger or accounting libraries
Ready to apply?
Email hiring at zela.pro with the subject line “Senior Engineer, Wallet”. Include a short note about why this one and a link to anything you're proud of.
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