Jobs at Paystack

About the Role

• We are seeking an exceptional Senior Frontend Engineer with a strong focus on public-facing web experiences, motion, interactivity, and high-quality frontend craft.
• This role is for someone who can take a brief and turn it into a polished, production-ready web experience end-to-end. You should be comfortable working from early concept through implementation, shaping interaction patterns, translating visual direction into expressive web surfaces, and shipping experiences that are beautiful, accessible, fast, and reliable.
• You will work on some of Paystack’s most visible web properties, including our main website, product pages, launch surfaces, educational pages, microsites, and other public-facing experiences. The ideal person combines strong frontend engineering fundamentals with a sharp eye for design, interaction, motion, and detail.
• You’ll collaborate closely with design, product, marketing, content, and engineering teams to create clear, engaging, and memorable web experiences for merchants, developers, partners, and businesses across Africa.
• This role is hybrid and requires working from the Paystack office closest to you for at least two days a week.

We’ll trust you to

• Own public-facing web experiences from concept through launch, including websites, microsites, landing pages, product pages, launch pages, and other high-visibility web surfaces.
• Translate briefs, product narratives, visual direction, and design explorations into polished, interactive web experiences.
• Design and build responsive, accessible, motion-rich, and high-performing interfaces using modern frontend technologies.
• Shape interaction patterns and web experience ideas, especially where the solution is not fully specified upfront.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, marketing, content, and engineering teams to create web experiences that communicate clearly and feel distinctively Paystack.
• Build reusable patterns, components, and interaction systems that improve the quality and speed of future web work.
• Bring strong judgment to frontend implementation decisions, including animation approach, rendering strategy, performance tradeoffs, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Partner with other frontend engineers to improve our web architecture, development workflows, deployment processes, and frontend standards.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, implementation feedback, and technical guidance.
• Help raise the overall quality bar for craft, interaction, accessibility, and polish across Paystack’s web surfaces.

You’ll thrive in this role if you

• 6+ years of frontend engineering experience, with strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend tooling.
• Demonstrated experience building polished public-facing websites, microsites, landing pages, product pages, or other highly visual web surfaces.
• Strong sense of visual design, interaction design, typography, layout, motion, and user experience.
• Ability to translate briefs, design direction, and product messaging into thoughtful, production-ready web experiences.
• Experience with motion and interactivity on the web, using tools such as GSAP, Framer Motion, CSS animations, scroll-driven animation, or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility, semantic HTML, and inclusive user experience principles.
• Good understanding of frontend performance, including image optimization, loading strategies, Core Web Vitals, animation performance, and rendering tradeoffs.
• Experience working with design tools such as Figma and collaborating closely with designers or creative partners.
• Familiarity with modern frontend frameworks and rendering strategies, especially React.
• Strong product and storytelling instincts, with the ability to make good decisions when requirements are ambiguous.
• Comfortable owning work end-to-end, communicating tradeoffs, and driving projects forward with minimal direction.
• Proven experience leveraging LLMs and AI development tools to improve productivity, explore ideas, and accelerate delivery.

Bonus points if you:

• Experience with Three.js, WebGL, React Three Fiber, or other immersive web technologies.
• Experience with Webflow or similar low-code/no-code web design tools.
• Experience building design systems, component libraries, or reusable interaction patterns.
• Experience working on product launches, developer-facing websites, educational content, or high-visibility public web experiences.
• Strong portfolio of interactive web work, motion-heavy interfaces, microsites, or public-facing web experiences.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• 13th month bonus
• TSG Equity compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Wellbeing stipend
• Generous leave and sabbatical policies
• Hybrid working environment
• Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.

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About the Role

• The Quality Engineering team is the standard-bearer and expert on how end-to-end tests are run across the Paystack platform.
• We design and maintain the infrastructure and tooling for repeatable, reliable testing; ensure essential use cases across all channels API, Dashboard, mobile, POS) are covered; and act as consultants and enablers who help every engineering team test effectively.
• As QA Lead, you will be the driving force behind our overall quality and automation strategy. You will lead a small, high-calibre team of QA and automation engineers, set the direction for how we test across the platform, and make sure the right tests, tooling, and environments are in place and running reliably.
• You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, and work closely with engineering leaders to align quality goals with the broader engineering roadmap. This is a full-time position.

We’ll trust you to

• Own and drive the overall quality and test automation strategy across the platform
• Ensure the appropriate tests, tooling, infrastructure, and environments are in place and running reliably
• Set standards for test architecture, frameworks, and test data management, and review them across products
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of QA and automation engineers, including regular 11s, hiring, and onboarding
• Align the team's goals with overall engineering goals and prioritise work accordingly
• Increase the visibility of quality by reporting on coverage, pipeline health, blockers, and impact to stakeholders
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to embed testing earlier in the development lifecycle
• Act as a consultant and enabler, giving teams the guidance they need to implement effective end-to-end testing
• Represent Quality Engineering in cross-functional planning and technical design reviews

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• Extensive experience using modern test automation tools across web, mobile, and APIs
• A track record of driving a QA and automation strategy at scale
• Experience leading, mentoring, and growing QA and automation engineering teams
• Strong interpersonal, project management, and organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to articulate and drive sustainable processes
• Sound judgement on where to invest testing effort for the greatest reliability and business impact
• Experience in payments, fintech, or other high-reliability, high-scale domains
• Familiarity with CI/CD gating, performance testing, and observability
• Experience using AI to automate workflows and complete tasks more efficiently, and a habit of encouraging the team to apply AI wherever it can add value to how we work.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package and benefits
• 13th month bonus
• TSG Equity compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Wellbeing stipend
• Generous leave and sabbatical policies
• Hybrid working environment
• Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.