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About The Role

• We are in search of a talented and motivated individual to join our team and start working on all sorts of interesting financial services products.
• ‍As a Product Manager at Yassir you will be responsible for driving product initiatives from inception through execution. In this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, analysts, and other cross-functional team members within the organization to ensure that our products amaze and delight our users.
• You would be a leader who works in a highly collaborative environment, focused on building products in a lean way, as well as building strong relationships with your stakeholders and other product teams. If you like working in a product culture where teams value rapid testing and learning, then this is a great opportunity for you.

About Your Role As Product Manager

• Co-create, coordinate, and facilitate your team's product discovery process
• Work with cross-functional collaborators, such as engineers, product designers, and marketers, to validate product ideas through a variety of product discovery frameworks and methods
• Work closely with users and stakeholders to understand their needs and objectives, and to gain a deep understanding of the problem space through workshops and research
• Conduct secondary and primary research, prototyping, and experiments (e.g. defining and understanding of proto-personas, customer journeys, customer interviews)
• Translate customer insights into prioritized product ideas or experiments to be tested on the market and with customers
• Synthesize data to make strategic evidence-based recommendations founded on the business, market, and customer needs
• Facilitate and actively collaborate in the development of business models, go2market plans, and early-traction tactics for products to be launched in collaboration with our clients, the product team, and other experts (e.g. marketing)
• Facilitate agile ceremonies in order to deliver a product or product initiatives in a timely manner and agreed on the quality‍

About your experience

• Minimum of 4 years of proven experience in product management with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider
• A track record of launching consumer-facing digital products and services (B2B or B2C)
• Experience working with scale-ups
• Ability to create and execute a customer discovery process to gather pains and opportunities
• Ability to design and run various ideation workshops
• Presentation skills and storytelling
• Understanding of how to integrate analytics into a product for generating useful information
• Understanding of the importance of branding and when it's important and when it's not
• A strong understanding of value proposition design and what makes for a successful venture
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Knowledge of modern development practices like agile and scrum
• General understanding of the technical aspects in digital product development with the ability to work closely with technical engineers and get the best out of them
• Strong design sense with the ability to collaborate with designers to produce great work
• Ability to manage stakeholders across the business and clients
• Passion for digital products and human-centered design
• Dependable, enthusiastic, curious with great energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Fluent English

Nice to have

• Knowledge of lean startup techniques and what a good MVP should be across B2B and B2C
• Technical, consulting, or design background
• Understanding of metrics and how to define them for different companies and products
• Understanding of behavioral psychology and how to make products with high engagement and stickiness
• Understanding of the growth process across Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue

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About your role

• Build and maintain scalable, cost-effective, and reliable systems with technologies such as Kubernetes in GCP cloud environment
• Improve our CI/CD process and increase the level of automation at Yassir in order to increase our efficiency
• Play a key role in handling incidents, and support engineering teams with their infrastructure needs
• Develop infrastructure as code as required
• Introduce processes, documentation, best practices, and tools that would help our engineering teams be more productive
• Automate deployment and scaling processes to minimize downtime.
• Continuously improve infrastructure and processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

About your experience

Technical Skills :

• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role building and maintaining large-scale, distributed infrastructure environments  in the cloud 
• Strong experience with Linux administration and scripting languages (Bash, Python, TypeScript, etc)
• Proven Experience working with Containers and Container Orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform, CDK for Terraform, Pulumi
• Proven Experience working with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, Azure) with at least 1 year of experience building and maintaining services in GCP
• Previous experience with CI/CD processes
• Previous experience with Node.JS or Python
• Strong understanding of network protocols and security best practices.
• Familiar with relational and non-relational database models (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis)
• Experience with ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Kibana is a plus
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana is a plus.

Other key skills and traits :

• Outstanding written & verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure, and meet tight deadlines
• Highly organized, creative, and critical thinker
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
• Organized and obsessive about details
• Hard-working, passionate, and looking to embrace the challenge
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.

BENEFITS

• Great compensation and bonuses including stock options.
• Ground floor opportunity with the team; shape the strategic direction of the company
• Sharp, motivated co-workers in a fun office environment or in remote 
• Paid company holidays
• Full social coverage

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About your role as "Senior Platform Engineer":

• Design, build and maintain the digital platform infrastructure and services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like CDK for Terraform or Pulumi.
• Implement containerization and orchestration strategies to ensure high availability and scalability of the platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements and provide solutions that meet their needs.
• Ensure security and compliance of the platform infrastructure and services.
• Continuously monitor and optimize platform performance and availability.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers on the team.
• Developing, testing, and maintaining software applications to support our developers and business operations.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop secure and scalable software solutions.
• Participating in code reviews and implementing best practices in software development.
• Identifying opportunities to improve system performance, reliability, and security through software engineering techniques.

About your experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering or a related field.
• Strong experience with TypeScript and Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CDK for Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of security and compliance best practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience in leading and mentoring teams is a plus.

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Responsibilities, scope

• Leadership & Collaboration: Work alongside QA Leads, providing direction and support, ensuring that the team is effective, engaged, and well-aligned with the QA strategy.
• Strategy & Processes: Collaborate with key stakeholders and peers to define, develop, and implement the best QA methodologies, processes, and tools to ensure efficient and thorough testing efforts.
• Test Planning & Execution: Oversee the creation and implementation of test plans, both manual and automated, ensuring comprehensive coverage and efficient defect detection.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze defect metrics and testing results to identify trends and recommend enhancements.
• Inter-departmental collaboration: Work in sync with heads of engineering, product management, development, and other teams to guarantee product quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Tool & Infrastructure Management: Evaluate and manage tools and technologies to bolster testing capabilities.
• Training & Knowledge Sharing: Ensure the QA team remains updated with the latest industry best practices and methodologies.
• Stakeholder Communication: Relay vital information regarding testing status, results, and metrics to stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify potential product risks and devise mitigation strategies.
• Monitoring and reporting

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance
• 5+ years of management or leadership experience within QA
• 3+ years of experience leading other managers
• Proven experience in transitioning teams from manual QA to automated testing.
• Prior experience as an Automation QA with hands-on experience in setting up and managing automation frameworks.
• In-depth knowledge of QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Proficiency with automated testing tools [e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG]
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development processes
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking capabilities
• Robust communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

Hierarchical manager

• Directly reporting to the head of platform and infrastructure

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ABOUT THE ROLE

• In this role, you will be part of our engineering team, working with a high-quality code base and the latest tools, where you will promote your skills to be an expert in complex backend development, including microservices architecture, using Node.js, Python or Go.
• You will own and build large scale backend systems and micro-services. You will design, develop, and deliver powerful server-side applications in a highly dynamic environment, where root cause analysis and rapid problem-solving are required.

TASKS

• Build robust and scalable software in Node.js, Python or Go
• Design and create (micro)services and system architecture for projects, and contribute and provide feedback to other team members
• Help improve existing code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms and products
• Work with the engineering and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

REQUIREMENTS

Other key skills and traits :

Technical Skills :

• A BS degree in computer or any equivalent experience
• MS degree and above preferred 
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
• Must have technical skills with at least 1 year experience 
• Language: Node.js, Python or Go 
• Data base: Mongodb or other.
• Framework: Express.js or other. 
• Web architecture: Rest and restful APIs, micro-services
• Master source version control: GIT
• Nice to have technical skills (Strongly advised for senior profiles)
• Containers: Docker, kubernetes 
• Caching, Redis server 
• Web load balancing
• Scaling 
• OS administration
• Encryption : https//, digital signing
• Outstanding written & verbal communication skills
• Outstanding project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Highly organized, creative and critical thinker
• Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
• Procurement or legal background is a big plus
• Excellent judgment, communication and interpersonal skills
• Organized and obsessive about details
• Hard working, passionate and looking to embrace the challenge
• Thrive in high impact/high profile situations
• Enthusiastic about Yassir!

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ABOUT THE ROLE

• In this role, you will be leading the Growth Marketing Efforts of the venture for customer acquisition.
• This includes setting up the marketing strategy for the company including both traditional and data driven techniques in the real and digital worlds.
• You will create, coordinate and maintain processes to bridge the gap between the technical and marketing teams. 
• Documentation and creating efficient, scalable systems are your thing. People love working with you because you make everyone’s life easier and you always know the status of projects. You are a very good problem solver with hustle and customer facing skills and can effortlessly switch back and forth between planning & execution.
• You must be highly analytical, ROI-focused with a strong track record of driving meaningful growth and engagement, ideally for a direct-to-consumer or B2B service.The position demands both a keen marketing sense, strong planning and multi-tasking skills to achieve business objectives. The ideal candidate is a team player who can work in a matrixed country organization, is relentlessly passionate about growing and engaging customers.

What You’ll Do

• Develop global marketing strategy for the company including both traditional and data driven techniques in the real and digital worlds.
• Customer obsession: you always put the customer first, listen to their needs, and figure out creative solutions to address these concerns and provide them, along with the technical team, with customized, yet scalable options to fit their needs.
• A positioning and creative expert: You’re super creative and can rapidly execute on your ideas. You can devise and package highly effective onboarding experiences that can be sold as a value add service.
• A go getter who goes on the street with hustle and customer facing skills for both direct-to-consumer and B2B services.
• An email and social networks master: You possess an uncanny ability to run and iterate on highly effective automated email and social media marketing campaigns.
• Finger-tippinesses with data: You just go get the data you need with no muss/fuss and can whip it into an insightful story with no help. You know how to leverage data to make decisions and drive growth.
• Top-notch at market research: You’re a truth-seeking missile. You know your market, customers and competition better than anyone, and you’re strong at integrating this information into your growth strategies.
• A “driver” personality: You’re biased toward action, a great collaborator and master disambiguator/simplifier. You never stop pushing towards clarity and delivery.
• Grittiness: You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away.
• True passion for the company’s hybrid technology/operations nature.
• Help with other alignment projects (documentation, guidelines, communication frameworks, testings).

What You'll Need

• A degree in commerce, marketing or management or any equivalent experience
• Outstanding written & verbal communication skills
• Outstanding project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Highly organized, creative and critical thinker
• Understanding of the local digital and offline media landscape
• Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
• Procurement or legal background is a big plus
• Excellent business judgment, communication and interpersonal skills
• Organized and obsessive about details
• Hard working, passionate and looking to embrace the challenge
• Thrive in high impact/high profile situations
• Enthusiastic about Yassir!

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ABOUT THE ROLE

• In this role, you will be leading the operations for Yassir. Documentation and creating efficient, scalable systems are your thing. 
• People love working with you because you make everyone’s life easier and you always know the status of projects.
• You are a very good problem solver with hustle and customer facing skills and can effortlessly switch back and forth between planning & execution. 
• You must be highly analytical, ROI-focused with a strong track record of driving meaningful growth and engagement, ideally for a direct-to-consumer or B2B service. 
• The position demands both a keen business sense, strong planning and multi-tasking skills to achieve business objectives.
• The ideal candidate is a team player who can work in a matrixed country organization, is relentlessly passionate about growing and engaging with partners and customers.

What You Will Do

• A mission critical leader in the city, working closely with the GM to guarantee supply and leverage deep analytical insights to deliver high impact results.
• Analytics and data drive everything we do: transportation, strategy, decisions and people. We have two networks we are trying to build: partners and customers.
• Responsible for the supply of partners in Lagos. The focus is on building the largest partner fleet, getting the most out of it and ensuring the quality of the user experience.
• Design innovative processes to onboard partners, manage utilization and ensure partner satisfaction.

What You'll Need

• Passion for Analytics: great analytical thinker with deep data analysis to help design solutions and optimize fleet utilization.
• Hunger to get things done: Super strong project management skills, with a focus on proactively finding practical solutions to problems
• Leader: need to be that person who can take the first step, inspire a room full of people to surpass themselves, and build a loyal community
• Strong Work Ethic: 
• People Skills: need to be able to build and maintain relationships with a diverse group of people. Selling ideas and beliefs is what will make you successful.
• Entrepreneurship: always thinking about the business and owning it!
• Target driven and ability to drive meeting of very aggressive targets
• Strong commercial sense, sharp problem solver and ability to get things done
• Experience working/living in the region
• Must have outstanding written & verbal communication skills in (local) and English
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Highly organized, creative and critical thinker
• Organized and obsessive about details
• Hard working, passionate and looking to embrace the challenge
• Thrive in high impact/high profile situations
• Experience abroad or in a multinational is a plus but nor required.
• Enthusiastic about Yassir!