Jobs at Kuda

Role overview

• Kuda is looking for a Head of BI & Analytics to lead our BI & Analytics function, delivering the trusted reporting and product insight that drive decisions across the business. You will lead a BI Engineering team scaling our semantic layer as the single, tested source of truth, and an Analytics team embedded in product squads driving deeper product insight and more advanced analytics.
• You will lead adoption of our next-generation BI platform, expand self-serve and agentic AI use across the organisation, and set the strategy for how AI changes BI & Analytics work. You will work closely with the Heads of Product, CX, Marketing and Data Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team spanning BI Engineering, pricing and product analytics, setting clear goals and raising the quality bar.
• Own the BI strategy and roadmap, including implementing our semantic layer in our new BI platform and extending governed, tested gold-layer domains as the single source of truth for core reporting.
• Drive adoption of the BI platform and agentic AI across Kuda, leading change management with product, CX, marketing and operations teams so trusted, self-serve data is used in everyday decisions.
• Own core business reporting and KPI definitions, ensuring accuracy, consistency and clear ownership across functions.
• Support the design and tracking of company and team OKRs.
• Develop the Analytics team as it deepens engagement with product squads: shaping roadmaps, experimentation, and the move from descriptive reporting to more advanced analytics.
• Help shape product and commercial strategy by building the analytical cases for decision making, and by partnering with Product and Finance to quantify trade-offs and expected impact.
• Support/ own forecasting and financial modelling, building models such as customer lifetime value, revenue and unit economics that inform planning and leadership decisions.
• Define Kuda's strategy for how AI will change BI & Analytics, from AI-assisted analysis and development to governed semantic models that AI agents can query reliably, and lead delivery within data privacy guardrails.
• Work closely with Data Engineering on data landing in our warehouse staging layer, agreeing standards for modelling, testing, deployment and release so new data products reach production quickly and reliably.
• Uphold and improve development best practices: version control, code review, documentation, data testing and monitoring, and retirement of reports and dashboards that are no longer used.
• Partner with the Heads of Product, CX, Marketing and Data Engineering to turn business questions into clear priorities, and present findings and recommendations to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading data teams of managers, engineers and analysts, including developing people and managing performance.
• Strong SQL, with enough hands-on depth to review the team's work and set the technical standard.
• Strong understanding of data development practices, including how tables and models are built, tested, versioned and deployed into a data warehouse.
• Experience designing or scaling a semantic layer or governed metrics layer, and defining KPIs that the business trusts.
• Strong forecasting and modelling experience, including models such as lifetime value, revenue or unit economics that support commercial and product decisions.
• Experience shaping product strategy with data, for example through pricing, proposition or tier design, and influencing senior decision-makers.
• Track record of driving adoption of BI tools and data products among non-technical teams, including through change management and influencing without authority.
• Ability to partner with senior stakeholders, challenge priorities constructively and communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Clear perspective on how AI is changing BI & Analytics, and the ability to turn it into a practical, responsible plan.

Nice to have

• Experience with BigQuery, Looker and Dataform (or dbt).
• Experience in fintech, banking or other financial services.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted analytics or agentic AI in a BI context.
• Experience with experimentation and advanced analytics methods in a product setting.
• Knowledge of African markets.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Statistics, Business, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field.

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:

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• Pension
• Career development & growth
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• Medical insurance
• Award winning L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

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Role Overview

• As a Scrum Master at Kuda, you will play a pivotal role in driving delivery velocity, operational excellence, and agile maturity across our engineering organization. Operating within a high-growth scale-up environment, you will be embedded with large cross-functional teams of 15 to 20 engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Your mission is to champion agile principles, eliminate delivery friction, and foster a high-trust, safe environment where teams consistently produce high-quality financial software. You will serve as the bridge between high-level delivery milestones and day-to-day execution, ensuring squads stay aligned with organizational objectives while navigating the dynamic complexities of the FinTech space.

Key Responsibilities

Agile Facilitation & Team Coaching

• Facilitate core Scrum ceremonies—including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives—for larger cross-functional teams.
• Coach squad members and product owners on agile best practices, backlog prioritization, user story splitting, and effective capacity estimation.
• Cultivate a team culture grounded in psychological safety, active accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.

Operational & Delivery Excellence

• Proactively identify and resolve delivery blockers, dependencies, and cross-team bottlenecks to maintain high execution velocity.
• Partner with engineering leads to optimize squad workflows and reduce delivery friction across sprint cycles.
• Utilize delivery metrics (such as velocity, burn-down trends, lead time, cycle time, and DORA metrics) to drive data-informed continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Alignment & Scale-Up Execution

• Work closely with Product Managers and Engineering Leadership to ensure sprint goals directly map to high-level product roadmaps.
• Maintain transparent, real-time visibility into sprint progress, risks, and dependencies for key business stakeholders.
• Guide teams through the rapid pace and shifting priorities characteristic of a fast-growing FinTech scale-up.

Compliance & Quality Governance

• Support squads in maintaining technical excellence and security-first engineering practices without sacrificing delivery momentum.
• Ensure agile processes account for necessary regulatory, compliance, and quality standard checks typical of high-throughput financial systems.

Requirements

• Proven Agile Expertise: 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach in dynamic technology environments.
• Scale-Up & FinTech Background: Demonstrable track record of delivering value within high-growth scale-up companies, preferably in the FinTech sector.
• Large Tribe Leadership: Deep experience facilitating and guiding multi-disciplinary squads (Engineers, QA, Designers, Product Managers).

Hard Skills

• Deep expertise in Scrum, Kanban, and modern scaling frameworks.
• Advanced proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and delivery tracking tools.
• Strong grasp of software delivery metrics (e.g., flow metrics, DORA metrics) to measure squad health and output.
• Practical understanding of modern software delivery practices (e.g., CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing).

Soft Skills

• Empathetic Leadership: A dedication to empowering teams, removing obstacles, and nurturing an inclusive environment.
• Clear Communication: Ability to articulate project status, risks, and process optimizations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Conflict Resolution & Adaptability: Skillful at navigating team dynamics, resolving friction, and pivoting gracefully in a fast-paced 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:

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• Pension
• Career development & growth
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• Group life insurance
• Medical insurance
• Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
• Perkbox
• Goalr - employee wellness app
• Award winning L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

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Role Overview

• At Kuda, we are dedicated to delivering a seamless, reliable, and highly secure digital financial experience for our customers. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be the ultimate guardian of our platform’s quality and reliability. You won’t just be writing scripts; you will be writing robust code to build the automated infrastructure that ensures our customers' money and data are always safe and accessible.
• You will sit at the critical intersection of software engineering and quality assurance. Your mission is to architect comprehensive test automation frameworks, champion a "shift-left" testing culture, and integrate quality gates seamlessly into our CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Test Architecture & Frameworks: Design, build, and scale robust, maintainable test automation frameworks from the ground up for our backend microservices (APIs), web platforms, and mobile applications (iOS and Android).
• Comprehensive Automation: Drive functional, integration, and end-to-end automation testing. Write clean, high-quality code (e.g., in Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript/TypeScript) to automate complex financial user journeys.
• Pipeline Integration (CI/CD): Embed continuous testing into our DevOps pipelines. Ensure that every code commit is rigorously and automatically tested for functionality and stability before reaching production.
• Performance & Security Testing: Design and execute automated performance, load, and security tests to proactively identify bottlenecks and vulnerabilities, ensuring our systems can handle massive transaction volumes securely.
• Shift-Left Quality & Collaboration: Partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and QA analysts during the design phase. Define testability requirements and ensure quality is built-in from day one rather than tested-in later.
• Defect Triage & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex issues, debug code, and work alongside developers to trace defects down to the root cause, implementing preventative automation to stop regressions.
• Mentorship & Best Practices: Continuously evaluate modern testing tools and methodologies (e.g., Appium, Playwright, JMeter, Axios/RestAssured, MySql). Mentor junior team members and cultivate a culture where quality is a shared engineering responsibility.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a dedicated SDET or Software Automation role.
• Advanced proficiency in Java and JavaScript, with working knowledge of C# and Groovy.
• Hands-on experience with web and mobile automation tools including:
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Appium
• Strong experience with API and data testing, including making API/HTTP requests using:
  • Rest Assured
  • Axios
  • Jest
  • OkHttp
  • Apache HttpClient
• Experience managing database connections using HikariCP or JDBC.
• Proficiency in automation framework design patterns, particularly:
  • Keyword-Driven Testing
  • Page Object Model (POM)
• Familiarity with build and CI/CD tools including:
  • Maven
  • TestNG
  • Jest
  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Experience with test reporting and test management tools such as:
  • Extent Reports
  • Azure/Assure Reports
  • Jira
  • Test management integrations

Soft Skills & Professional Attributes

• Independent Ownership: Proactively identify improvements and fix issues without constant supervision.
• Knowledge Sharing: A "share the love" mentality—mentoring peers and documenting findings to elevate the team's technical bar.
• Collaborative Leadership: Aligning developers and Product Owners with the automation strategy to ensure collective success.
• Continuous Improvement: A "do things better every day" mindset focused on optimizing execution time and simplifying workflows.
• Strong Communication: Translating complex technical failures into clear, actionable insights for all stakeholders.

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritise your 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
• Pension
• Career Development & growth
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• Medical insurance
• Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
• AwardCo.
• Award winning L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule