Jobs at Korapay

About The Role

• As the Product Manager for Pay-ins, you’ll be responsible for optimizing the current payment methods we support and building new ways for our merchants to accept payments.
• As the Product Manager for Payouts, you’ll be responsible for optimizing and improving the current payout channel we support while building new channels in other countries we are expanding to.
• Product Managers at Kora own the end-to-end problem they are trying to solve with their team. As the Product Manager for either Payouts or Pay-ins, you will develop and execute the product strategy that enables seamless payment experiences for our users.
• This role is a unique opportunity to impact how global and local businesses accept payments from customers all over Africa.

Here’s what you’ll be doing

• Strive to deeply understand user needs by conducting user research and identifying opportunities and pain points. And advocate for user needs through the cycle of building products.
• Define, document, and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products for your customers.
• Work with a team of engineers and designers to discover solutions to customer pain points, and build and launch products for local and global businesses.
• Define and drive roadmaps, project plans, and precise product specifications that consistently deliver quality products.
• Ensure successful product launches by working cross-functionally with marketing, merchant success, sales, operations, legal, and compliance teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

• 4+ years of experience in product management, with demonstrated experience in successfully building and shipping impactful products
• Strong strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities
• You have a good understanding of how software is built and operated and experience in building technical software products
• Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on customer needs
• Excellent ability to bring clarity and focus to complex and ambiguous situations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate and lead teams - Product roles bring responsibility without direct authority.
• We’re looking for leaders who can motivate and earn the trust of stakeholders and teams with a collaborative approach.
• Curiosity and drive
• Great attention to detail and cares about building quality products
• Experience working with both qualitative customer insights and quantitative data to inform decisions.
• You’ve conducted user research, and a/b tests and have worked closely with product analysts.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Stock Options
• Sponsored and Tailored training
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Work Style
• Internet Contribution
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Interest-free Loans
• Employee Assisted Programs
• Day off on your Birthday :)
• Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!

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About The Role

• As an Application Security Engineer at Kora, you will work with the Application Security team to define and execute the security strategy of our products
• You will ensure that security is embedded in how we build our products from design and development to testing to how we run them and partner with Product and Engineering teams to strategically guard against existing or emerging threats.
• This position is responsible for cultivating a culture of security awareness across the Engineering & Product teams.
• The ideal candidate has deep technical security knowledge and expertise and will help define and implement robust security architecture strategies, frameworks, and governance processes.

Here are a couple of things you'll be doing:

• Upholding code reviews across all code platforms.
• Take charge of bug intake and remediation processes for the organization.
• Provide leadership for application vulnerability scanning and penetration testing remediation.
• Manage integration with vulnerability check tools such as Static Code Analysis and Dynamic Code Analysis tools.
• Discover Security exposures and mitigation plans, and report and fix the technical glitches.
• Administering and carrying out configuration optimization on Web Application Firewalls.
• Actively participate in security initiatives with minimum supervision.
• Be the subject matter expert for application security solutions.
• Provide guidance for junior-level security engineers.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (Engineering, DevOps, and Product) while carrying out daily tasks.
• Responds to computer security incidents according, leverages subject matter expertise where established processes do not exist.
• Acts as a subject matter expert regarding CSIRT incident response processes.
• Identify and manage potential and actual operational issues within the incident detection/response domain and take corrective action.
• Contribute to requirement gathering with the product team in the area of application security.
• Work together with cross-business units on executing standardized security solutions and integrations.
• Assist in the development of automated security testing to validate that secure coding best practices are being used.
• Conduct regular security assessments and report on findings.
• Work as a red team member, driving an offensive security approach to improving the security posture of the organization.
• Other duties as assigned by the CISO.

Requirements

Here's what are we looking for:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as an Application Security Engineer.
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Security, or in a related technical field.
• Someone who has a thorough understanding of attacks and threats.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts and principles.
• Strong understanding of System Architecture, both On-prem and Cloud.
• Strong software design and implementation know-how, strong familiarity with web protocols, a thorough knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture, and being well-versed in application security and infrastructure security.
• Experience of performing cyber assessments on systems (including Cloud assessments)
• Experience of Threat Modelling and Impact/Likelihood assessments is a must
• Understanding of emerging technologies and corresponding cybersecurity threats
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Someone who follows security best practices when performing tasks
• Self-motivated individual who is adaptive to change.
• Should possess good communication skills to explain complex security topics in simple language and easy to understand concepts.
• Experience in risk identification, secure software design, secure architectures, secure testing, or vulnerability detection and remediation
• Experience in service-oriented architecture and web services security
• Understanding of OWASP 10.
• SANS, GIAC, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CEH and any other security certification is desirable.
• An engineer who is wholeheartedly about automating checks and tests.
• Finally, you live and breathe security, you have bags of energy, obsess about security & trust and you are passionate and breathe security!

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Stock Options
• Sponsored and Tailored training
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Work Style
• Internet Contribution
• Annual Performance Bonus
• Interest-free Loans
• Employee Assisted Programs
• Day off on your Birthday :)
• Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!