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Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet. We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
1). Frontend Engineer (Web)
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full time
Description
- We’re on the lookout for a passionate Frontend Engineer who is a creative problem solver and excited about to disrupting banking in Nigeria.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
- Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
- Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
- Identifying web-based user interactions.
- Translating designs and wireframes into high-quality code.
- Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
- Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.
- Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
- Documenting application changes and developing updates.
- Developing new user-facing features using React.js
- Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.
- Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
Requirements
You’ll be considered for this role if you:
- Have an in-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages
- You can work with CSS preprocessors like Sass and Less
- Can write readable, logically sound Javascript
- Have experience with user interface design
- Have experience working as a React.js Developer
- Possess the knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux
- Are familiar with task runners like Grunt, Webpack
- Can work on large-scale/complex front-end projects
- Can empathize with the many different types of users who use Kuda
- Can think through product requirements to come up with ways of quickly solving problems
- Care deeply about performance, accessibility, and application design
- Can communicate what you’re working on to non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). Web (React) Engineer
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full time
Role Overview
- We are in search of a QA Engineer to help us grow into a company that can bring meaningful change to the way people across Africa get access to great financial products and services in order to take control of their personal finances.
- We are actively looking for bright, talented, driven people who are excited by our mission. If this sounds like a great way to spend your valuable time, then please get in touch with us.
- Web Engineers are responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web applications for maximum efficiency and maintaining brand consistency across all web pages, among other duties.
- Web Engineers are required to work in teams alongside Backend Engineers, Product Managers and UX Designers to ensure all elements of web application creations are consistent. This requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Responsibilities
- Write code to implement visual elements into various web applications
- Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
- Maintain web applications and implement any necessary additions or enhancements
- Identify and troubleshoot various web application issues and coding problems
- Collaborate with members of the team, including designers and back-end engineers, to consistently improve functionality and user-friendliness of web applications.
Requirements
- A keen interest in UX and understanding of key design principle
- Proper understanding of React.js and its core principles
- Experience with popular React.js workflows (such as Redux and Context API) and building reusable components for future use
- Familiarity with newer specifications of EcmaScript
- Proficient understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
- Good understanding of SEO principles including web analytics and ensuring that application will adhere to them
- Write functional requirement documents and specifications.
- Willingness to troubleshoot and solve complex problems
- Good interpersonal skills.
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Product Designer
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job type: Full time
About the Role
- We’re looking for a Product Designer to create engaging designs according to requirements across the full suite of Kuda products.
- You will work under the supervision of the Product Design Lead to produce high-quality work.
- You will be involved in the full product development cycle: from early research and product strategy, to design and developer hand-off.
- You should have a strong understanding of design patterns on the web, mobile, strong visual and user experience sensibilities, and care deeply about the end-user experience.
Roles & Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- Use various techniques to create drafts and prototypes
- Produce final design solutions
- Pitch creative and usable ideas
- Bring new ideas to life from sketching and wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes, visual design, asset production and developer handoff.
- Use feedback from other designers, customers, and team members to improve the product.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers on the Retail, Business and Internal Product teams to launch features that impact the teams’ KPIs
Requirements
What you’ll need (Experience & Qualifications):
- 1-3 years of experience designing and shipping both web and mobile products and tools
- Strong portfolio demonstrating visual and user experience design in similar products
- Experience with design software (we mostly use Figma)
- Familiarity with design techniques (e.g. prototyping, wireframing)
- Understanding of visual elements (layout, colors typography, and fonts)
- Teamwork
- A razor sharp eye for detail
- Time management and multitasking abilities
- The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions.
Nice To Haves:
- Knowledge of and interest in technology and financial services; prior experience working in fintech or digital payments a plus.
- Experience designing, maintaining and using a design system.
- Familiarity with UX writing.
- Basic familiarity with front-end development with HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience using graphics editing tools (e.g. Photoshop, illustrator)
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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4). Product Manager
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full time
About the Role
- Play an integral role in building Kuda’s growth team.
- Work closely with the Head of Growth to plan and drive our growth initiatives.
- Develop an experimentation & optimisation roadmap that aligns with Growth OKRs.
- Define methods and metrics for identifying success and failure.
- Champion the use of behavioral analytics within the product team.
- Perform quantitative and qualitative research to guide experimentation.
- Ship high-quality MVP products that allow us to test our hypotheses.
- Capture and communicate insights from growth experiments.
- Partner with the cross-functional growth team to improve AARRR metrics.
More specifically:
- Embrace the testing process: form and validate data-driven hypotheses for accelerating customer acquisition, activation, retention, referral and revenue.
- Refine and improve the product using best of breed analytics tools.
- Inform product decisions with quantitative and qualitative data on user behaviour and experimentation, including a/b testing, survey data and usability studies.
- Prioritise features, build consensus, and coordinate with a team of engineers, designers, and analysts to ship high-quality experiences.
- Work closely with our core product team to ensure synergy in workflow and jtbd.
- Write specs and create wireframes to communicate your plans.
- Work with Growth Engineering to create and build a sustainable release cadence.
- Partner with the Growth Marketing and Analytics teams to personalise our acquisition flow.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Professional certifications are a plus
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in growth product management.
- Experience in developing, executing, and testing different growth experiments.
- You will have a strong understanding of the mobile ecosystem.
- Ability to conceptualise, manage, and prioritise multiple projects.
- Experience taking on products and using analytics & research to grow them.
- Experience using data analysis to support growth plans.
- 3+ years of experience in growth product management.
- Experience in developing, executing, and testing different growth experiments.
- You will have a strong understanding of the mobile ecosystem.
- Ability to conceptualise, manage, and prioritise multiple projects.
- Experience taking on products and using analytics & research to grow them.
- Experience using data analysis to support growth plans.
Nice to have:
- Worked within the Fintech space.
- Knowledge of African markets.
- An obsession with user experience.
- A desire to build something great.
- Worked within the Fintech space.
- Knowledge of African markets.
- An obsession with user experience.
- A desire to build something great.
Personal Attributes:
- Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
- Have a strong desire for learning and growth.
- Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
- Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
- Are a team player
- Have good time-management skills
- Have great interpersonal and communication skills
- Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment
Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
- Pension
- Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
- Group life insurance
- Health insurance
- L&D training
- We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:
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