Chipper Cash is a venture-capital-backed Financial technology company that builds software to enable free and instant Peer-to-peer Cross-border payments in Africa and Europe; as well as solutions for businesses and merchants to process online and in-store payments.

Chipper Cash

Chipper Cash is Africa’s modern mobile payments platform. We’re helping friends, families and loved ones stay connected and securely send money across Africa with incredible ease and peace of mind. Our cross border payments infrastructure also helps merchants and businesses in Africa accept payments on the internet with no friction. Over 3 million users have joined so far and we’re growing very fast. We have raised a total of $52.2M from Jeff Bezos, Joe Montana and some of the most reputable fintech Venture Capital firms in the world to accelerate the growth of financial services within Africa.

Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.

We don’t care very much about checking boxes, such as “X years of experience” or “Familiarity with X framework” to show that you’re qualified for this role. We’re looking for talented, passionate engineers, who enjoy writing clean, well structured, and well-tested code. An ideal team member will be self-driven, will enjoy owning their own projects, and will be able to constructively communicate with the rest of the team in order to brainstorm, disambiguate project specifications, and to give (and receive) feedback on everything from coding style to high-level architecture and design. Most importantly, we’re looking for engineers who love learning.

We don’t tend to define rigid roles for engineers within our team - the projects that you work on will largely be driven by your own areas of interest. Here are some examples of roles that you might fill on the team:

The more familiarity you have with our tech stack, the better! That being said, familiarity with our stack is not a requirement - if you’re an excellent engineer, we don’t think you’ll have any trouble ramping up on any of these technologies that you’re less familiar with. The technologies that we use include, but are not limited to:

If you feel you are a good fit, please apply because we would love to hear from you.&nbsp; If you have any professional links to your work like a Github or linkedIn profile, please include them. It means a lot to us that you have taken the time to read through our job description so thank you so much for your time.&nbsp; We wish you all the best in your job search.

Senior Software Engineer

The Country Manager, South Africa, will serve as the primary lead role for Chipper Cash in South Africa. He/she will drive the country strategy working alongside global cross functional teams including Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and Marketing. He/she will be a critical team leader to support sustainable and profitable growth for the Chipper Cash application.

Responsibility includes but is not limited to

Country Manager

The Country Manager, Rwanda, will serve as the primary lead role for Chipper Cash in Rwanda. He/she will drive the country strategy working alongside global cross functional teams including Product, Engineering, Operations, Compliance, and Marketing. He/she will be a critical team leader to support sustainable and profitable growth for the Chipper Cash application.

This position supports the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), to gather, assess and interpret data in order to provide relevant written and visual talking points, trends, patterns and other metrics to various cross- functional teams.

Are you someone who wants to keep digging through various data sources to find answers to important business and risk questions? Do you enjoy researching and investigating unusual trends and patterns to identify the root cause and solve problems? Does the process of using data to support complex investigative teams to combat criminal activity sound appealing?

We are looking for someone like you who can support data analytics for a fast-growing compliance team providing support to metric reporting to senior leadership and enhancing investigative techniques and protocols.

Your role will support multiple initiatives to help the compliance team better understand data, data elements, analyze data to turn it into information which can offer ways to improve processes, mitigate risk and affect important business decisions. You will work with the CCO, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Head of Legal, Risk Management &amp; Compliance, multiple Global Program Managers (as well as all of the support teams within these leader’s support structures) to promote a transparent data driven team through collaboration and cross-functional partnerships. Your position will be analytical with an emphasis on creativity as you help streamline investigatory processes, analyze trends and patterns, and help develop new queries and dashboards.

Data Analyst

We’re looking for a creative &amp; resourceful product manager to partner with our engineering, design, legal and operations teams to formulate solutions to the complex challenges of our rapidly growing marketplace. The Product Management team is small and is built on mutual respect, high trust, and high autonomy. You'll work with a strong, entrepreneurial, and product-focused group of engineers and designers in a highly collaborative environment.

This role requires a leader who thrives in ambiguity, identifies opportunities and moves fast to capture them, and has an unrelenting tenacity. The successful candidate will have strong organizational and influencing skills and uses data to guide his/her decision-making.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a massive impact on the company, on the product, and, most importantly, on the lives and livelihoods of our users. Enjoy working from home? Coffee-shops? Co-working spaces? Pick any of the above! Our team is fully remote. The Chipper team is truly global - on a daily basis, you might be interacting with team members in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Accra, Lagos, and Nairobi.