At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to build impactful financial solutions for emerging markets.
- Company: Capi, a fast-growing fintech startup backed by top-tier investors.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, remote work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on mentorship and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in global trade while developing cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in web development with a strong product mindset.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Capi is building the financial infrastructure for emerging markets trade. Our mission is to grow GDP in emerging markets by making the global financial system fairer and more accessible. We’re tackling global trade, making it easier for importers to pay their international suppliers. Our platform enables businesses to expand rapidly, create jobs, and be engines of prosperity for their countries.
Our team is made up of approx 100 people across 10 countries; we are a group of highly ambitious, get-it-done people, who like to work hard on something that has a tangible impact in the world. And we’re looking for more people to join our team!
Role Overview
You’ll join a small, high-performing team of engineers and product leaders shaping how we scale our platform and our impact. From your first day, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the founding team based across London & Paris to shape the product vision and all parts of our technical architecture. As we scale our products and deepen our presence across emerging markets, 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 that balances impact, effort, and delight.
Key Responsibilities
- Delivery
- Contribute to the product process from end-to-end, from ideation to building the UI, backend logic, deployment, feedback and measurement.
- Communicate internally and externally about new features, be it collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them on launch.
- Define and manage delivery milestones, ensuring alignment between engineering and product priorities.
- Technical
- Build intuitive and performant web interfaces for business owners in Africa.
- Implement IT security and data protection best practices in a regulated environment.
- Proactively drive architectural decisions e.g., improving scalability, observability, and modularity of the codebase.
- Champion code quality through robust testing, documentation, and reviews.
- Operational
- 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. Including handling production incidents with confidence.
- Leadership
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their professional growth through pairing, reviews, and feedback.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions (including Finance, Operations, Senior Leadership) to help translate business goals into technical plans.
- Set and uphold team standards for communication, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Culture
- Communicate internally and externally about new features, be it collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them on launch.
Requirements
- Our tech stack: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL.
- A product mindset is core to how we build - everyone at Capi is encouraged to think about the customer, the business, and the long-term impact of what we ship.
- A strong understanding of web development, frontend and backend best practices. While mainly working with JavaScript technologies.
- Experience in a VC-backed or high-growth engineering team and building products used by customers.
- You are 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions with both technical and non-technical team members and customers.
- You care about our mission and solving the problems faced by African businesses.
- Based in London or Paris.
Bonus points if you:
- Speak and write in French & English.
- Experience in Fintech, payments, wallets or building ledgers.
- Expertise in security and data protection best practices needed in a FCA regulated business.
Some projects the team has been working on: Automated payouts and AI invoice approval.
Product Engineer - London employer: Capi
Capi is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in London where innovation meets purpose. With a strong focus on employee growth and collaboration, team members are empowered to shape impactful products that enhance global trade in emerging markets. The company fosters a culture of ambition and creativity, providing unique opportunities to work closely with the founding team and contribute to meaningful projects that drive economic prosperity.
