Who we are
Cleva, a YC-backed company, is on a mission to enable Africans across the world to effectively manage their money and build wealth. This mission starts by enabling Africans to easily receive their salaries and payment for their work without overspending on fees. It then scales towards enabling them to easily pay bills, spend, and grow their money over time.
In a world where African currencies are fluctuating and getting devalued, it is paramount to preserve wealth. This problem applies to individuals and businesses on the continent, Cleva is on a mission to solve this by providing Africans with the flexibility to hold, grow, and move money in their preferred currencies.
It’s only Day 1 at Cleva with an excitingly significant amount of work towards our mission. This presents an unprecedented opportunity for you to build the best banking platform for Africans globally while having the greatest impact of your career.
What you'll do
As an Engineering lead, you’ll build services and shape software operational excellence at Cleva. You will work closely with the CTO to build infrastructure and services. You will also help to define the company’s technical strategy and processes to accelerate execution efficiency for engineers. You will use AWS technologies and languages like Python and TypeScript to build.
- Define the company’s technical strategy and build new services.
- Refine, and implement improvements to existing software infrastructure.
- Engage confidently with senior management, providing strategic insights, ideas, and execution plans regarding the improvement of the company’s QAOps, TestOps, and other software-related operations.
- Build and design software APIs.
- Improve software development processes.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- 7+ years building highly available, customer-centric software.
- Ability and motivation to operate in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, and highly ambiguous environment.
- Strong technical skills in the MERN stack and experience building on AWS.
- Ability to foster technical conversations with software vendors and service providers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Highly motivated self-starter with a strong bias for action.
- Ability to operate at a high level and provide strategic direction, while also being able to get into the details to fully execute the strategy.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build and foster an engineering culture.
- Strong system design skills and an eagerness to tackle ill-defined problems.
- Prior significant experience as a Senior Software Engineer or lead.
Nice-to-have qualifications
- Prior experience interfacing with external software vendors to design, plan and execute integrations.
- Prior experience working at a technology startup.
- Basic knowledge of banking applications and how they operate from a technical perspective.
Personal Character Requirements
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Communicates directly and honestly.
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Has grit and is intrinsically driven to improve processes.
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Curious and executes with an action-focused, proactive mindset.
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Collaborative.