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The Opportunity:

As a payments platform team, our primary objective is to establish a stable and reliable platform that guarantees timely settlement of funds to both Yoco and our valued merchants. We strive to ensure that all parties receive their rightful payments promptly and without any disruptions. In this role, you will work collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders, including product managers, engineering teams, and various internal and external partners. Close collaboration is essential as you engage with these teams and stakeholders to achieve shared objectives and drive the success of our initiatives.

What You’ll Do

• Prioritise and define the roadmap. You will develop and prioritise a roadmap for the team and define quarterly goals that are in line with the overall business strategy.
• Identify product requirements. Work with business stakeholders to identify and analyse opportunities to improve our products and translate these into clear user stories for your team.
• Own the product backlog. Build and prioritise the product backlog ensuring the team is working on the biggest problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, infrastructure teams, internal stakeholders, and partners to identify opportunities, develop effective solutions and deliver them across the finish line.
• Prioritise among different problems, making sure that imminent problems are resolved first, but the long-term is also taken care of.

Who You Are

• Prior experience in payments, ideally in a similar role.
• You have enough technical fundamentals to build a platform as a product while working closely with technical subject matter experts.
• Solid technical understanding and ability to engage in architectural discussions with engineering teams.
• You are able to make strategic choices, taking into consideration not only business needs, but especially the technical needs as well as the needs of the team.
• You are fuelled by curiosity, always on the lookout to learn how something works, whether it’s our platform’s performance, application architecture, or the scalability of our database infrastructure.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey product strategy to both technical and non-technical audiences

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The role:

Working at one of the fastest-growing fintech’s in Africa means you’ll be solving some unique challenges that we’re faced with. We’re looking for a talented engineer who’s excited by the opportunity to contribute to something meaningful and to work within a team of highly skilled engineers delivering impactful solutions.

Automation is key in being able to achieve the scale we aim to operate on and ensuring we are agile means we’re not only able to scale quickly but we’re also able to adapt and constantly iterate on our systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for building, monitoring and supporting cloud-based infrastructure
• Working closely with software developers to enable them to deploy and support their own services
• Planning out new infrastructure projects and understanding the trade-offs around cost, maintenance and interoperability with our current architecture
• Build tooling to improve the reliability, monitoring and availability of infrastructure
• Investigating and resolving infrastructure-related issues
• Maintaining automation as a first-class concept, especially around the deployment pipeline
• Work alongside a broader team of world-class engineers, sharing knowledge and collaborating on various projects.

Key Requirements:

• You have at least 3 years of experience with Azure Public Cloud
• You have a strong working knowledge of Linux, networking and database administration
• Extensive production-level experience using Terraform, Packer and Ansible.
• Familiarity with other Hashicorp tooling (Nomad, Consul, Vault, etc) or similar.
• You have previous experience working with physical server infrastructure
• Experience debugging issues, identifying faults and enhancing observability software.
• Experience with other public cloud providers is a bonus (AWS specifically)
• You have previous experience working within an orchestrated containerised environment (Kubernetes is a bonus)
• Having previous experience working within a PCI environment is beneficial
• You are comfortable and familiar with a scaling and service-based environment
• You enjoy problem-solving and have good attention to detail
• You work collaboratively and can be self-motivated in a remote setting
• Awareness of DevOps principles
• Are transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
• Have a passion for enabling teams of software engineers.