Career Job Opportunities at Okra

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 Career Job Opportunities at Okra

Okra – Our mission is to digitize financial services. We are building the tools and services that will enable developers launch, optimize, & scale financial platforms and services. Our thesis is simply the fact that – financial innovation cannot exist without an Open Finance infrastructure. Essentially, the growth of the African Fintech industry is intrinsically tied to the success of an infrastructure like Okra.

Okra powers the tools that millions of people rely on to plan and manage their finances today. We are proudly working with hundreds of companies like Interswitch and D-local, and many of the largest financial institutions to make it easy for people to securely connect their accounts to the apps and services they choose. Okra’s network covers over 100 banks and financial institutions across Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Core Services

Location: Remote

The Role

  • It’s an amazing time to join Okra. Our Engineering team is responsible for building tools and infrastructure to gather, analyze, and visualize financial data.
  • We believe the way millions of people interact with their finances will change over time, and our Engineering team will be at the forefront of creating that experience.
  • You’ll be the person helping us achieve this vision.
  • Your focus will be to grow our Core Services team, and partner with our product managers and engineers to build and maintain our core services.
  • This is a most mission-critical component of our infrastructure.
  • You’ll work closely with the Head of Engineering and our CEO/CTO to build an organisational structure and processes that scale as we continue to grow.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

  • Recruit, grow, and enable an incredible team of driven engineers who have high expectations around craft, ownership and impact.
  • Fostering a collaborative culture that embodies our principles and empowers users.
  • Mentoring and developing your team of engineers; supporting their goal setting and career growth.
  • Delivering world-class results, while continuously challenging yourself and your team to “make it better”.
  • Working with other engineer managers and functional leads to set direction for your team, the engineering team, and Okra as a whole.
  • Crafting a thoughtful, long-term technical strategy that anticipates future needs.

Requirements
What you’ll need:

  • Experience leading teams of 5 – 10 engineers.
  • Significant experience as a software engineer.
  • Willingness to roll your sleeves up and code when needed.
  • Enterprise level MERN stack experience.
  • Passion for cultivating highly functioning teams and organizations.
  • A record of levelling up your reports and providing individuals with meaningful opportunities for growth.
  • Excitement for recruiting and a thoughtful approach to headcount planning.
  • Experience building teams during a hyper-growth phase is a huge plus.
  • Experience leading remote and distributed teams.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

 

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Remote

The Role

  • It’s an amazing time to join Okra. We are looking for a seasoned leader to take our engineering organization to the next level.
  • As the Head of Engineering, you’ll be responsible for driving excellent technical judgment and decision making that correctly anticipate future scalability and reliability challenges across a global engineering team consisting of our core infrastructure, data infrastructure, core services, core product, customer engineering, cloud infrastructure and QA teams.
  • This highly strategic role will continually assess the needs of customers, and identify opportunities to develop world-class product development that enable greater personalisation of financial services.
  • If you are a candidate who has the vision of what could be, who has the ability to cultivate relationships, deep technical and product expertise, and a belief in developing the skills and talents of others, then you may be the ideal person for this position and we would love to get to know you.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

  • Build and develop a high performing and elite team of leaders and engineers who have responsibility for engineering, implementing and maintaining our core infrastructure, data infrastructure, core services and core products.
  • Develop and own an infrastructure product strategy and roadmap that enables our customers to grow through innovation, efficiency, reliability and security in alignment with the company goals.
  • Develop productive, collaborative, trusting cross-functional relationships with various groups including key stakeholders and team leads across Okra.
  • Determine, maintain, and regularly report on success metrics that measure the operational health, performance, effectiveness and efficiency of the products the team is responsible for delivering.
  • Demonstrate hands-on technical depth that enables direct oversight, problem-solving leadership, and oversight of complex infrastructure implementation, system upgrades, software engineering principles and operational troubleshooting.
  • Meaningfully shape future iterations of the Okra product
  • Ruthlessly prioritize workloads against available resources, level of impact, and desired business impact.
  • Ensure launches are of the highest quality, can support mission-critical enterprise and consumer uses, and are delivered on time to meet stringent timelines
  • Collaborate with the executive team to align on technology strategy and clearly communicate to stakeholders on the engineering vision, roadmap, and progress.

Requirements
What will help you succeed:

  • You will have seen what great looks like, you have led technology teams that have built products that are industry leading and you are known for raising the bar
  • You have 10+ years of relevant experience including 5+ years of experience leading a 20+ engineering organization and leadership experience overseeing managers and directors
  • 10+ years of overall technical experience, including deep technical knowledge of infrastructure management of diverse local- and cloud-based topologies with strong emphasis on cloud infrastructure
  • You have a solid track rector of developing software products from inception to mass adoption
  • Demonstrated ability to manage, motivate and hold accountable a high-performing, distributed team and can take advantage of talent across geographies – you are known as a talent magnet
  • Demonstrated ability to set and guide engineering strategy in collaboration with product priorities and objectives
  • Demonstrated ability to bring people together and motivate them to tackle a set of strategies and goals
  • Experience leading within an infrastructure environment as well as consumer-grade applications.
  • 5+ years of experience of managing products, budgets, and justifying resource needs to senior leaders and finance partners.
  • Prior experience and demonstrated success delivering technical solutions in high-growth environments with a proven track record of innovative thinking balanced with a strong customer and quality focus.
  • A bias to action and execution, ability to operate in rigorous sprints, and fast productive cycles
  • Forward-thinking strategist with proven success in translating strategy to tactical plans with high-quality execution and delivery, including the ability to get hands-on when developing systems architectures.

Nice to have:

  • Prior demonstrated experience being a catalyst for positive change and demonstrated ability to influence and be influenced, all within a global, fast-paced growth environment.
  • A healthy skepticism for the status quo and an unwillingness to settle.
  • An empathetic leadership style driven by strong self-awareness.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

 

Job Title: Technical Support Engineer

Location: Remote

The role

  • It’s an amazing time to join Okra. As a Technical Support Engineer focused on helping Okra customers, you will support the architectural foundation for new products and explosive growth.
  • You’ll collaborate with product managers, designers to understand user needs and to create delightful experiences for our customers, while setting the foundation to manage scale without compromising reliability.
  • You will build on our current product and unlock a new way of managing money for the entire Fintech Industry.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

  • Build products with impact: your work will touch tens of millions of end users, the best applications in FinTech, and major financial institutions
  • Understand the financial infrastructure in Africa today and be able to imagine the payments experience
  • Challenge technical problems with non-deterministic solutions, diving into loosely defined problems and figuring out a path forward.
  • Prototype and develop new products.
  • Work cross-functionally and directly create a high business impact for Okra.

Requirements
What you’ll need:

  • 5+ years of experience in technical support, preferably in SaaS or API company.
  • Experience with and passion for API’s.
  • Passion for customer support and helping customers.
  • Deep understanding of networking and web sockets.
  • Experience with MongoDB or other NoSQL systems
  • Experience with Node.js and Typescript.

What we offer

  • Fully remote work
  • Competitive salary
  • Dynamic work environment
  • Be a part of the fintech revolution on the African continent.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

 

Job Title: Senior Product Designer

Location: Remote

The Role

  • It’s an amazing time to join Okra. Our Design team is responsible for delighting our customers and enhancing our end-user experience.
  • We believe the way millions of people interact with their finances will change over time, and our design team will be at the forefront of driving those behaviors.
  • You’ll be the individual helping us to achieve this vision.
  • Your focus will be to execute world class product experiences as well as to help raise the bar of the Okra brand through cutting edge visual design solutions.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:

  • Contribute to the overall product and brand development
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, product and business teams
  • Understand scope, requirements, and drive innovative solutions aligned with business goals and metrics.
  • Effectively apply research and data in design decisions
  • Create flows, wireframes, prototypes and high fidelity visuals
  • Work closely with engineers and other partners to ensure a high-quality implementation
  • Use and evolve internal design systems
  • Regularly talk to customers and users
  • Regularly present work and share feedback with other designers
  • Mentor and encourage growth amongst your design team
  • Stay on top of the game by researching the latest trends in visual, UI, interaction design and provide recommendations for improvements.

Requirements
What you’ll need:

  • 3 – 5 years experience creating and shipping digital products.
  • A passion for design and figuring out best in class solutions to UX, UI, Visual design and interaction challenges
  • Experience with design systems and scaling design across the whole company
  • The ability to advocate for, and be a strong representative of design
  • Proficiency in animation and illustration is a plus.
  • Passionate about both brand and product verticals of design
  • Excellent team player
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to think through complex design problems.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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  •  Our people are all equally gifted in unique ways: we come from diverse traditions, personal experiences and points of view. And we want to include yours, Are you ready to inspire us with your ideas?
  • We encourage all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.
  • Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
  • Due to the urgency of the position, we have the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline
  • Only qualified candidates will be invited for interview
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  • We encourage all applicants to apply and does not practice any discrimination in any recruitment process.
  • Applications submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
  • Due to the urgency of the position, we have the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline
  • Only qualified candidates will be invited for interview
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