Latest Job Vacancies at Flutterwave 

Job Title: Senior Legal Officer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Legal

About the Role

• This role oversees and supports the company with legal matters and propose appropriate and tailored legal solutions / advice for the benefit of the company.
• This role can support the company in the fraud and litigation management, data privacy and intellectual property protection as well as regional services.

Responsibilities
As the (Senior) Legal Officer:

• Initiate and pursue legal proceedings on behalf of the Company with the assistance of external counsel
• Draft and / or review legal letters, contracts and agreements and monitor legal obligations under agreements to ensure compliance, on and as when requested
• Advise on potential litigation matters (civil & criminal) that should be directed to external counsel
• Liaise with and assist external counsel with regards to their obligations to the company and maintaining an updated litigation schedule of the Company
• Advise on statutory compliances
• Research and prepare legal opinions on various civil matters including claims for compensation against the company
• Draft, amend, review and / or recommend modifications of related laws and regulations governing the company
• Assist in the formulation, implementation and / or amendment of company policies
• Provide sound and timely legal advice & opinions to the company and make recommendations to Management as necessary
• Attend client and committee meetings and offer advice as required while taking notes
• Preparing minutes of Meetings attended
• Liaise and maintain correspondence with the Company Secretary in ensuring timely statutory filings
• Ensuring the safety of the Company’s legal documents and the maintenance of the Company’s vault.

Requirements
You’re a great match for this role if you have:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience post call to bar
• In-depth knowledge and technical understanding of the organization’s strategy & business, product and service offerings
• Excellent interpersonal communication at all levels (verbal and written)
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent multi-tasking and time management skills
• Ability to cope with high levels of responsibility and with confidential matters
• Excellent knowledge of industry, country laws and regulations covered by the company’s operations
• Must Possess integrity and professional ethics
• Must be well knowledgeable with legal requirements and control
• Familiar with industry practices and professional standards
• Must be proactive
• Key attention to details
• Team spirit.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Senior Core Switching Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

The Role

• The ideal candidate will build new, improve, and manage existing integrations and applications with external partners.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be

• Design, develop and deliver code that can support new product feature/enhancements in an agile environment
• Develop microservices using RESTful APIs
• Create database schemas that represent and support new products/ enhancements
• Maintain quality and ensure optimum performance of developed applications.
• Collaborate in design and development with the rest of the team.
• Maintain code integrity, organization, versioning, and apply object-oriented design principles
• Carry out unit tests of developed applications as well as setup automated testing of applications to ensure correctness, robustness, and scalability
• Maintain code and application security at all times. Ensure data protection.
• Develop applications in Java with little knowledge in web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery
• Guide and mentor new engineers and interns

Required Competency and Skillset to be a Waiver

• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the organisation’s strategy, product and service offerings
• In-depth understanding of Java as a back-end language for application development
• Excellent knowledge and use of supported frameworks such as Spring and Spring Boot
• Excellent knowledge of database and ORM technologies
• Ability and interest to quickly learn new languages and technologies
• Excellent organisational and people management skills
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and quality assurance skills
• Excellent time management and analytical skills
• Excellent agile delivery knowledge including branching, testing and continuous development. Collaborate with other engineers to deliver sprint goals
• Excellent Devops knowledge including Source Control, Continuous Integration, Configuration Management, Deployment Automation, Containers, Orchestration and Cloud Platforms like AWS, Azure etc.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Risk Strategist

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Risk – Africa
Experience Level: Mid-level

The Role

• Within the Risk team, as a Risk Strategist you will serve as the internal consultant to various cross functional teams including product, engineering, partnerships and growth on all topics related to risk and card network rules.
• The ideal candidate will use their expertise in risk to advise on new product development, prioritization of market expansion, risk management strategies and establishing internal controls.
• Risk Strategist will develop recommendations that ensure Flutterwave can move rapidly while managing risk in every aspect.

In this Role, you will

• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Compliance, User Policy, Risk Partnerships, Legal, etc) to evaluate the development of new products and advise on the risk / fraud-related requirements and controls that need to be established to ensure Flutterwave manages product / transaction risk.
• Establish the risk appetite for both individual products and across Flutterwave’s entire portfolio.
• Lead ad hoc risk-related projects end-to-end to support market expansion, new products or risk management.
• Be the internal expert on card network (Visa / Mastercard / Amex / Discover) rules and our acquiring or issuing bank contractual requirements.
• Conduct research, analyze data and put forth recommendations and proposals that drive decisions on product, risk management and partnerships.
• Take ownership of undefined bodies of work and create a structured process that allows Flutterwave to move fast in identifying and executing on opportunities.
• Own the product risk assessment process for rollouts of new products or enhancements.
• Influence risk / compliance product and engineering roadmaps

Required Competencies and Skills to be a Waver

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company.
• Deep understanding of risk and fraud.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting card network rules.
• Strong project management experience.
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders.
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: User Policy Strategist

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Risk – Africa

The Role

• The User Policy team at Flutterwave is responsible for establishing, developing and enforcing policies, rules and standards  that govern the use of our products and services , as well as, establishing internal decision making structures that enable us to ensure the integrity of our payments ecosystem.
• User Policy Strategists will work with cross functional teams including product, engineering, risk strategy, risk partnerships, fraud, compliance, expansion and growth to define the the guardrails that ensures Flutterwave is setting the foundation for how digital payments are able to be used on our platforms and across the regions in which we operate.

Job Responsibilities
In this role you will:

• Understand the financial partner, card network and regulatory requirements around each of Flutterwave’s products.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers, Engineering, Compliance , Risk Partnerships, Legal, etc) to evaluate the user policy requirements of new products being developed.
• Design policy frameworks including rules, standards and procedures  for new and or  existing products, merchant categories, and users.
• Evaluate existing terms of service to ensure they are aligned with our risk management strategies, controls, and partner requirements.
• Think innovatively about undefined use cases around payments.
• Determine internal policies around onboarding and offboarding of merchants or users.
• Work with the Transaction Monitoring, compliance and fraud teams to ensure our policies translate into controls and operationalize enforcement processes.
• Articulate to senior management the impact of the policies you developed to ensure alignment with leadership.
• Resolve product or financial partner roadblocks through thoughtful policies that drive confidence in Flutterwave’s risk management function.

Requirements
Required competencies and skills to be a waver:

• 7+ years experience in payments at a card network, an acquiring bank or related payments technology company.
• Demonstrable proficiency in risk, fraud, trust & safety.
• Experience developing policies that govern user behavior.
• Strong project management skills.
• Solutions based mindset when working cross functionally across various stakeholders.
• Negotiating with product, engineering, sales and legal to ensure alignment.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer – Offline Business

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Category: Engineering – POS
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Mid-level

About the Quality Assurance Engineer Role

• The team is looking for a customer-focused, passionate, and committed tester, who will strive for quality and excellence in the company’s products as we grow and expand across Africa and beyond.
• As a test engineer, your primary responsibilities will be to design, plan, communicate and execute an automated testing strategy in a fast-paced environment while also maintaining the quality of the product, and assisting other team members where applicable.
• You will be a part of the development of our offline business, hence your experience in test POS applications will be of advantage.

What Your Day-to-Day Activities Will Be

• You should be comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously and working in a fast-paced environment.
• Work closely with business owners and product managers to define requirements and develop detailed test plans and test scenarios.
• Create quality test cases while creating both positive and negative path scenarios.
• Execute testing and assist with automated testing where applicable.
• When a product does not perform within specifications or user experience, identify, recreate, and log defects while recommending solutions and improvements.
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies, by evaluating, learning, and implementing the tools to the benefit of the products.
• Participate in knowledge sharing with other QA team members.
• Perform any other duties that may be required.

Requirements
Required competency and skillset to be a Waver:

• Proven work experience in software testing (Preferable in the Fintech space).
• Good knowledge of quality assurance terminology and methods.
• Good knowledge of any of the following programming languages [Java, (NodeJS) Javascript, C#, React Native (Typescript), Kotlin (Android), and Swift (IOS)]
• Good knowledge of database testing (performance and/or security testing is a plus)
• Good knowledge of any automated testing tools (Postman, Selenium, Cucumber…)
• Good, working, knowledge of SQL and scripting.
• Experience with test management tools (Jira, and/or Testrail)
• Strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate to all project members and stakeholders.
• Pays meticulous attention to detail.
• Good research skills.
• Good time commitment/management skills
• Self-motivated and willing to learn.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Backend Engineer – Node.JS

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Engineering – PEI

Job Summary

• We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users.
• Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers into the application.
• Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
• As a senior, you would also contribute to the team building efforts, owning product feature development and mentoring juniors.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Implementation, testing, delivery and maintenance of product features (new and existing)
• Creating technical reports on feature implementations
• Research on existing/new product features and areas of improvement
• Commitment to creating and maintaining secure coding practices (and standards)
• Providing support for product features (when needed)
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.

Key Performance Indicators

• Adherence to coding standards and best practices (95% one-time delivery)
• Quality of written codes
• 95% adherence to agreed timelines for project and tasks assigned
• % backlog burn rate
• # of escaped/prevented bugs (at least 5 per shipped feature in a sprint)
• # of shipped features (at least 2 per sprint)
• # of enhancements (due to research) on existing features (at least 5 per appraisal period)
• Avg. response time to enquires & complaints through channels (at least 5 minutes after enquiries / complaints are logged).

Requirements

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and work experience.

Competence and Skill Area:

• Good knowledge of Javascript/Java for the backend (NodeJS) [Typescript is a plus]
• Good, working, knowledge of a git
• Good, working, knowledge of the SQL query language (MySQL flavor). [Knowledge and understanding of ORMs is a plus]
• Good, working, knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially). [Knowledge and understanding of ODMs is a plus]
• Good research skills
• Good time commitment/management skills
• Attention to details
• Quick learner.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online