Fresh Jobs at Quidax

About the Role

• We’re on the lookout for an Engineering Manager who’s hungry to lead the tech team behind our Fiat and Crypto products — the literal core of Quidax. This role is perfect for someone who knows how to ship great products fast, lead a team of brilliant engineers, and design systems that scale like magic. You’ll be owning a high-impact area that affects millions of dollars in value exchange and is key to our Q4 growth goals.

What You’ll Be Owning

• Drive Team Performance & Delivery
• Platform & Infrastructure Evolution
• Build & Grow a Rockstar Team
• Own Quality, Reliability & Experimentation
• Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle
• Here’s what will keep you up at night, it’s very exciting but you will want to get it solved like yesterday

What We’re Looking For

• You’re a builder, a coach, and a systems thinker. You’ve seen scale and have battle scars to prove it. You know how to ship, lead, and grow.

Nice-to-haves:

• In your first 90 days: assess the current team, structure, and delivery processes; align product and engineering to ship reliably and fast
• By Q1 2026: Contribute to and take ownership of processes that drive engineering quality and meet our engineering SLAs.
• First 30 days: Work with technical leads to conduct a full-stack audit of our Fiat and Crypto platforms — think architecture, observability, and scalability
• By month 6: Collaborate with technical leads to implement a 12-month roadmap for evolving our core systems, reducing tech debt, and supporting 10x growth
• Be a thoughtful technical voice and support your team in making diligent architectural decisions.
• By Q1 2026: ship 3+ experiments tied to improving exchange experience — track usage, improve UX, and iterate
• Keeping up with the speed of product and market shifts while ensuring system stability
• Building a truly multi-currency infrastructure that works across borders and bank partners
• Juggling regulation, risk, and security while staying customer-first
• Up-levelling an already smart team without micromanaging
• You have at least 7 years of experience in software engineering.
• You have at least 2 years of engineering management experience.
• You possess a strong understanding of what constitutes high-quality code and effective software engineering processes, creating an environment that fosters these principles.
• You have an execution-focused mindset, capable of navigating through ambiguity and delivering results.
• You have an ability to balance long-term strategic thinking with short-term planning.
• You can be hands-on when needed – whether that’s writing/reviewing code or technical documents, participating in on-call rotations and leading incidents, or triaging/troubleshooting bugs.
• You know how to hire, coach, and level up engineers
• You’ve led backend-heavy engineering teams in fintech or crypto
• You’re fluent in Java or Kotlin (bonus if you’ve touched Go)
• You’ve built payment/crypto systems and know what great infra looks like

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About the Role

• We’re looking for a Senior / Staff Android Engineer who’s obsessed with building sleek, reliable Android apps that make crypto simple and seamless. You’ll be the tech glue holding complex mobile projects together, leading architecture and mentorship, and pushing our mobile platform into its next evolution. If you live for clean code, smooth user experiences, and high-impact work, keep reading.

What You’ll Be Owning

Drive Mobile Engineering Excellence

• In your first 90 days: Own and optimize our Android app’s architecture—make it scalable, fast, and future-proof.
• By 6 months: Lead cross-functional delivery with product and design, shipping major features that delight users.
• On-going: Define and enforce Android best practices, from code quality to performance optimization.

Technical Leadership

• Be a thought leader on the team and across the organization
• Lead technical decisions around native Android (Kotlin/Java), WebView, JS Bridge, and cross-platform Flutter integrations.
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers to elevate the team’s output and culture.
• Architect and develop mobile strategy in alignment with Quidax’s growth and crypto roadmap.

Team & Culture Building

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to ship great products
• Provide technical structure to teams and collaborate with management and stakeholders to define and implement strategic roadmaps

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle

• Here’s what will keep you up at night, but you will want to get it solved like yesterday
• Balancing rapid feature delivery with bulletproof app performance and stability—no pressure.
• Navigating complex integrations between native and web content without losing your mind.
• Scaling a performant mobile app in a fast-moving product environment
• Raising the technical bar while mentoring others and keeping delivery fast
• Balancing product velocity with long-term architectural decisions
• Helping define what great looks like for crypto experiences on Mobile

What We’re Looking For

• You write clean code. You sweat the small stuff when it matters. You obsess over system design. And you care about impact.
• 7+ years building Android apps that users love (Kotlin and Java are your best friends).
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Deep experience integrating REST APIs, third-party SDKs, and working with WebView + JS Bridge magic.
• Leadership chops—mentored engineers, driven tech decisions, led architectural discussions.
• A problem solver who plays well with Product and Design, keeping customer experience front and center.
• Bonus points if you’ve worked on blockchain/crypto apps or know your way around Jetpack components.

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About the Role

• We’re looking for an iOS Engineer with serious chops — someone who builds smooth, reliable, and high-performing apps. You’ll work on complex mobile experiences that power crypto access for thousands of users across Africa (and beyond). Whether you’re a senior engineer ready to deepen your impact or a staff engineer ready to lead architectural decisions and mentor the next generation, this role was made for you.

What You’ll Be Owning

Drive Mobile Engineering Excellence

• In your first 90 days: Own and optimize our iOS app’s architecture—make it scalable, fast, and future-proof.
• By 6 months: Lead cross-functional delivery with product and design, shipping major features that delight users.
• On-going: Define and enforce iOS best practices, from code quality to performance optimization.

Technical Leadership

• Be a thought leader on the team and across the organization
• Lead technical decisions around native iOS contributions
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers to elevate the team’s output and culture.
• Architect and develop mobile strategy in alignment with Quidax’s growth and crypto roadmap.

Team & Culture Building

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other stakeholders to ship great products
• Provide technical structure to teams and collaborate with management and stakeholders to define and implement strategic roadmaps

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle

• Here’s what will keep you up at night, but you will want to get it solved like yesterday
• Balancing rapid feature delivery with bulletproof app performance and stability, no pressure.
• Navigating complex integrations between native and web content without losing your mind.
• Driving technical strategy and implementation for iOS, including architecture, performance, and security
• Raising the technical bar while mentoring others and keeping delivery fast
• Balancing product velocity with long-term architectural decisions
• Helping define what great looks like for crypto experiences on Mobile

What We’re Looking For

• You write clean code. You sweat the small stuff when it matters. You obsess over system design. And you care about impact.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in iOS development with proven experience leading projects or teams
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Strong command of Swift, SwiftUI, and mobile architecture principles
• Proficiency in Kotlin Multiplatform and Dart for cross-platform projects
• Familiarity with Combine, MVVM, and performance optimization techniques

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with blockchain integrations or custody wallets
• Experience working in a remote startup environment
• You’ve built secure, highly reliable financial systems (bonus point if in crypto space)

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About the Role

• We’re hiring Senior / Staff-level Java Engineers who love building performant backend systems that run 24/7 and power millions in crypto and fiat transactions. You'll be joining the core backend team that underpins every Quidax product — from deposits and swaps to merchant payments and our API rails. It’s a high-trust, high-impact role for engineers who want to do the best work of their careers.

What You’ll Be Owning

Build & Scale Core Services

• First 30 days: Understand our architecture and take ownership of one core service (deposits, swaps, or settlements)
• By month 3: Lead improvements that reduce latency or improve reliability across one critical flow
• By month 6: Design and implement a new microservice (or refactor an existing one) that handles high-volume traffic across fiat and crypto rails
• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.

Solve for Performance, Reliability & Observability

• By month 2: Contribute to platform observability initiatives
• By Q1 2026: Drive cross-team initiative to scale platform performance across all critical user flows

Collaborate with Product & Engineering Teams

• Actively lead and participate in architecture reviews, sprint planning, and retros
• Pair with frontend, mobile, and devops engineers to solve cross-functional challenges
• Support junior engineers via reviews, mentoring, and documentation

Biggest Challenges You’ll Tackle

• Here’s what will keep you up at night, but you will want to get it solved like yesterday
• Architect and develop distributed systems
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps
• Manage individual projects priorities, deadlines and deliverables with your technical expertise
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers
• Shipping often while keeping a high bar for quality and security

What We’re Looking For

• You write clean code. You sweat the small stuff when it matters. You obsess over system design. And you care about impact.
• 8+ years in software engineering, primarily working with Java 8+ & SpringBoot in production
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
• Experience writing and maintaining highly scalable and performant code
• Strong grasp of system design, microservices architecture, and distributed systems
• Proficiency in relational databases (MySQL)
• Bonus if you’ve worked in fintech, crypto exchanges, or high-availability systems

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with blockchain integrations or custody wallets
• Experience working in a remote startup environment
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical writing