Job Vacancies at Kuda

Role Overview:

We are looking for an exceptional Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our rapidly scaling team across various geographic locations.

You will be tasked with creating and running a best in class talent acquisition function within our business and drive momentum and efficiency to ensure top talent is placed within forecasted timelines.

Your responsibilities will include sourcing, screening and providing a shortlist of qualified candidates for various technical roles. You will also network online and offline with potential candidates to promote our employer brand, reduce our time-to-hire and ensure we attract the best professionals.

Ultimately, you will build a strong tech talent pipeline and help hire and retain skilled employees for our business.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Write and post technical job descriptions

• Source potential candidates on niche platforms, like Stack Overflow and Github

• Perform pre-screening calls to analyze applicants’ abilities

• Interview candidates combining various methods (e.g. structured interviews, technical assessments and behavioral questions)

• Coordinate with team leaders to forecast department goals and hiring needs

• Craft and send personalized recruiting emails with current job openings to passive candidates

• Participate in tech conferences and meetups to network with IT professionals

• Compose job offer letters

• Onboard new hires

• Promote company’s reputation as a great place to work

• Conduct job and task analyses to document job duties and requirements

• Keep up-to-date with new technological trends and products

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

• Proven work experience as a Technical Recruiter

• Strong track record of placing top technical talent

• Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements for IT roles

• Familiarity with Applicant Tracking Systems and resume databases

• Solid knowledge of sourcing techniques (e.g. social media recruiting and Boolean search)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Solid understanding of HR practices and labor legislation

• BSc in Human Resources Management, IT or relevant degree

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

Become a part of one of the trailblazers in the challenger banking arena by joining the exciting and ambitious team at Kuda Bank as we work to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’.

We currently have offices in Lagos, London and most recently, Cape Town, where we are providing a platform from which to launch into new markets.

Our Cape Town team share offices in Claremont to enable connection and collaboration but follow a remote first work policy and offer flexible working hours. Our goal is to build a team of smart and kind individuals who will work together to solve interesting problems and lead the way in shaping the future in banking for all Africans.

Additionally, we are in the process of building out great perks and benefits to deliver the best possible employee experience to our growing team.

Currently we offer:

• Paid Time Off

• Work From Home

• Flexible working hours

• Training & Development

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Roles and responsibilities:

• Implement various testing and automation tools, and commission IT infrastructure

• Provision, Configure, & De-Provision Environments via Automation

• Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation

• Apply troubleshooting techniques and advise on fixing code bugs

• Ensure developers adheres to defined DevOps processes and update or create new processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness

• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate system performance and agility using appropriate monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency.

• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management

• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operations and support at scale and efficient use of resources.

• Perform incidence management and root cause analysis

• Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools

• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

• Understand teams’ requirements and project KPIs

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Have experience with CI/CD Platforms (Azure DevOps is a Plus)

• Have experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS)

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Datadog, Sentry

• Have experience with Technologies like Ansible, Terraform, etc

• Have experience with Kubernetes orchestration and management

• Have experience maintaining and support monitoring and alerting systems

• Have experience supporting and troubleshooting relational databases and distributed platform

• Have working knowledge of monitoring and event management tool Implementations

• Have basic system administration and Linux skills

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

WORK LIFE

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to;

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team.

• Career Development & Growth.

• We are advocates of work life balance and offer a remote working option for certain roles.

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Roles and responsibilities:

• Develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality

• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

• Monitor debugging process results

• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

• Test current products and identify deficiencies

• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts

• Develop and monitor performance metrics for all stages of the production process

• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements and ensure consistent project execution

• Plan, create and manage the overall quality planning strategy

• Identify quality assurance process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement

• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

You’ll be considered for this role if you:

• Are familiar with native android and ios development frameworks

• Have strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

• Have experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases

• Have hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing

• Have hands-on experience with automated testing tools

• Have solid knowledge of SQL and scripting

• Have experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

• Have experience with performance and/or security testing

• Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills

• Are a team player

• Have good time-management skills

• Have great interpersonal and communication skills

• Have good problem-solving skills

• Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment

Benefits

WORK LIFE

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to;

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team.

• Career Development & Growth.

• We are advocates of work life balance and offer a remote working option for certain roles.

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Role Overview:

We are looking for a result-driven and analytical software engineer to work on our native iOS mobile application. S/he will use his or her understanding of programming tools and languages to analyze current codes, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems and create a fantastic experience for users.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Design and build applications for the iOS platform

• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

Experience:

• are proficient with Swift and Cocoa Touch

• have experience with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, etc.

• have experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

• have familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect iOS applications to back-end services

• have knowledge of other web technologies and UI/UX standards

• have an understanding of Apple’s design principles and interface guidelines

• have experience with performance and memory tuning with tools such as Instruments, Shark, etc

• have familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications

• have a knack for benchmarking and optimization

• are proficient understanding of code versioning tools

• are familiar with continuous integration

Personal Attributes:

• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion

• Have a strong desire for learning and growth.

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

Become a part of one of the trailblazers in the challenger banking arena by joining the exciting and ambitious team at Kuda Bank as we work to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’.

We currently have offices in Lagos, London and most recently, Cape Town, where we are providing a platform from which to launch into new markets.

Our Cape Town team share offices in Claremont to enable connection and collaboration but follow a remote first work policy and offer flexible working hours. Our goal is to build a team of smart and kind individuals who will work together to solve interesting problems and lead the way in shaping the future in banking for all Africans.

Additionally, we are in the process of building out great perks and benefits to deliver the best possible employee experience to our growing team.

We currently have the following in place:

• Paid Time Off

• Work From Home

• Flexible Working Hours

• Training & Development

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Role Overview:

We are looking for a result-driven and analytical software engineer (backend) who will troubleshoot and improve existing backend applications and processes. S/he will use his or her understanding of programming tools and languages to analyze current codes, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems and create a more seamless experience for users.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Main focus on coding and debugging

• Build high-quality reusable code that can be used in the future

• Develop functional and sustainable web applications with clean codes

• Troubleshoot and debug applications

• Conduct tests and optimise performance

• Work together with engineers building client-facing applications to integrate UI elements with server-side logic

• Implement modern technologies to improve legacy applications

• Collect, analyse and address technical and design requirements

• Help to create reusable code and libraries for future use

• Train and support internal teams

• Interact with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

• Stay informed about emerging technologies

Requirements

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience

Skills & Experience:

• Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background

• Model of software engineering best practices, including agile development, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, debugging, and troubleshooting.

• Solid experience with C#, .Net, .Net Core

• Strong computer science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures background

• Have a deep understanding of Source Code Management

• Have in-depth understanding of Cloud Technologies (Azure, AWS)

• Have a great understanding of databases and SQL

• Have in-depth understanding of REST APIs, SOAP & RPC

• Have in-depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Are able to do technical writing and API documentation

• Are familiar with project management tools (e.g Trello, Jira, etc)

• Have good problem-solving skills

• Have strong verbal and written communication skills

Personal Attributes:

• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion

• Have a strong desire for learning and growth.

• Passionate about improving developer productivity

• Strive for speed and quality

• Desire to automate

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

Become a part of one of the trailblazers in the challenger banking arena by joining the exciting and ambitious team at Kuda Bank as we work to become the neobank for ‘every African on the planet’.

We currently have offices in Lagos, London and most recently, Cape Town, where we are providing a platform from which to launch into new markets.

Our Cape Town team share offices in Claremont to enable connection and collaboration but follow a remote first work policy and offer flexible working hours. Our goal is to build a team of smart and kind individuals who will work together to solve interesting problems and lead the way in shaping the future in banking for all Africans.

Additionally, we are in the process of building out great perks and benefits to deliver the best possible employee experience to our growing team.

Currently we offer:

• Paid Time Off

• Work From Home

• Flexible working hours

• Training & Development