Jobs at Paystack

About the Senior Platform Security Engineer role

• Every engineering team at Paystack builds on a shared cloud platform.
• If that platform is not secure, nothing built on top of it is secure.
• This role owns that foundation - not as an oversight function or as a policy team but as the engineering layer that makes the platform trustworthy by design.
• The decisions made here are not team-level decisions.
• You will own Paystack's AWS organisation end-to-end: its architecture, its account structure, and the organisation-wide controls that govern how every team operates within it.
• The guardrails you set, the permission model you design, and the security primitives you build are what all engineering teams depend on to do their own work effectively.
• You are upstream of all of them, and what you build has direct consequences for Paystack's customers, merchants, and regulatory standing across multiple markets.
• You will inherit a functioning platform and take full ownership of it - improving what exists, completing what was started, and defining what comes next.
• This is not a role where someone hands you a roadmap.
• You will identify what needs to be solved before it is articulated, set the technical direction for how platform security works at Paystack, and make architectural decisions with company-wide reach.
• You will also build the Platform Security function - shaping what it looks like, how it operates, and who it eventually comprises.

We’ll trust you to

• Own and evolve the security architecture and organisation-wide controls across Paystack’s multi-account AWS environment.
• Design scalable identity and access-management systems, including secure, self-service ways for engineering teams to request and manage access.
• Establish secure-by-default cloud standards and build automated controls that help engineering teams meet them.
• Partner closely with DevOps and engineering teams, bringing security into infrastructure decisions from the outset.
• Strengthen security across secrets management, network controls, containers and the infrastructure supply chain.
• Ensure security logs and signals are reliably generated, structured and delivered to the Security Operations team.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into practical infrastructure controls and automated audit evidence.
• Build production-quality tooling and automation that solve recurring cloud security problems.
• Anticipate emerging platform risks and evolve Paystack’s controls as its products, markets and infrastructure grow.
• Set the technical direction and standards for Platform Security, making secure practices straightforward for engineering teams to adopt.nditions, not just the ones you can see today

You’ll thrive in this role if you

• Have deep, hands-on experience securing AWS environments at scale, including multi-account architecture, organisation-wide policies and access governance.
• Can design access-control systems that remain secure and manageable as a company grows.
• Write high-quality, defensive code and build security infrastructure, automation and tooling yourself.
• Bring breadth across Platform Security, including IAM, secrets, networks, containers, infrastructure and software supply chains.
• Understand web security end to end and can connect application-level risks with cloud infrastructure failure modes.
• Have improved complex, live systems without unnecessarily disrupting what already works.
• Have operated in regulated environments and automated security controls and audit evidence across multiple compliance frameworks.
• Are a credible, practical partner to engineers: you identify risks early, communicate clearly, challenge decisions constructively and drive issues through to resolution.
• Work with high agency, remain calm under pressure and build scalable systems that outlast your direct involvement.

Bonus points if you:

• Have helped establish or shape a Platform Security function.
• Understand the regulatory and data-protection landscape across Paystack’s markets.
• Have worked within a parent-company security programme while independently owning a regional or subsidiary environment.
• Have owned the infrastructure during security incidents.
• Have built security standards and reference architectures that engineering teams genuinely adopted.

Benefits

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

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About the Senior IT Engineer role

• Our IT Operations team is a small, high-impact platform engineering unit.
• We manage the identity, endpoint, network, and access infrastructure for over 300 employees and 100+ outsourced agents across six offices (Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Cape Town, and Dubai).
• We manage a fully automated macOS fleet, every physical office network, and roughly thirty core applications secured behind SSO.
• We do all of this inside a highly regulated fintech environment that holds PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certifications and operates under the CBN.
• Our environment is heavily integrated and highly automated.
• We’ve built an identity lifecycle that flows automatically from our HR systems into our identity provider.
• Macs deploy zero-touch, and access requests provision themselves.
• As our scale and complexity increase, we are bringing on a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to expand our engineering capacity and provide critical redundancy across our Tier-1 systems.
• Reporting directly to the Head of IT, you will help drive, manage, and maintain this integrated ecosystem while executing on our long-term infrastructure roadmap.

We’ll trust you to

• Drive Identity Management: Manage our identity lifecycle. You will configure SAML and OIDC across our application estate, maintain SCIM provisioning, manage attribute-driven RBAC, and enforce phishing-resistant authentication.
• Maintain Lifecycle Automation: Support and improve the joiner/mover/leaver pipeline. Build automated processes for accessmenent from approval to access provisioning
• Manage the Fleet & Device Trust: Oversee our macOS environment. This includes automated enrollment, configuration profiles, EDR, and enforcing DLP on outsourced devices. You will help maintain device trust as a real, certificate-backed control that rejects unmanaged or unpatched devices.
• Maintain Global Networks: Manage the physical network across six locations. You’ll handle multi-WAN failover, VLAN segmentation, centrally managed wireless/switching, server rooms, and the carrier connectivity linking our on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.
• Drive the Zero Trust Migration: Help us execute the transition away from legacy VPNs. You will drive our move to Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), enforcing per-application authorization based on real-time device posture.
• Build as Code: Treat the IT environment as code. You’ll use Terraform, Git-based staging-to-production pipelines, and Python/Bash where no provider exists. Your first instinct should always be to reach for an API before logging into an admin console.
• Enforce Automated Compliance: Turn regulatory requirements into automated controls that generate their own evidence. We balance ISO 27001, ISO 20000, PCI-DSS, NDPR, and the CBN IT Blueprint simultaneously.
• Resolve Complex Tickets: We all work tickets leadership included. You will handle complex escalations and diagnose faults that span a firewall, a carrier, and a cloud provider all at once.
• Document for the Future: Write documentation to a standard that survives your absence.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• 5+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering, ideally including time on a small, high-leverage team.
• Real depth in at least two of the four areas below, and enough baseline competence in the rest to handle an escalation (we are not looking for a unicorn who is a master of all four):
• Identity & Access Management: SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM 2.0, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2. You have actually built lifecycle automation, not just clicked through SSO setup wizards.
• Endpoint Management at Scale: Apple MDM protocols, zero-touch enrollment, declarative configurations, and compliance enforcement across hundreds of devices.
• Network Engineering: Multi-site and multi-carrier setups, VLANs, complex routing, firewall policies, multi-WAN failover, 802.1X, and RADIUS.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Git workflows (with peer review), and enough Python, Go, or Bash to confidently build against a REST API.

You should also have:

• Experience operating under external assessors with multiple active compliance frameworks.
• A track record of inheriting live, critical systems and improving them without breaking what already works.
• The engineering judgment to know when not to automate. (Not everything needs to be code).
• Strong technical writing skills. You write specs, procedures, and audit responses that other teams can actually understand and act on.

Bonus points if you:

• Experience with public cloud networking, certificate management, and identity federation.
• Knowledge of X.509, mTLS, ACME, or SCEP for certificate-backed device identity.
• Experience using osquery (or equivalent) and turning CIS benchmarks into enforced configurations.
• Experience enforcing security baselines on BPOs and devices you do not physically own.
• Tenant-level administration of enterprise collaboration suites, including deep DLP classification.
• ITSM design experience under ISO 20000 or ITIL.

Benefits

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

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About the Senior QA Engineer role

• The Quality Engineering team is the standard-bearer for how the Paystack platform is tested end to end.
• We build the infrastructure, tooling, and automated coverage that let engineering teams ship quickly without compromising reliability, across API, Dashboard, mobile, and POS channels.
• As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be a hands-on senior individual contributor building and maintaining automated test suites for critical, customer-impacting flows.
• You will work across services such as payments processing, transfers, refunds, and merchant banking, designing robust contract, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests that run in our deployment pipelines and gate releases.
• Your voice will be heard and your work will have direct, measurable impact on the reliability of payments across Africa.
• This is a full-time position

We’ll trust you to

• Design, build, and maintain automated test suites (contract, integration, end-to-end, and performance) for critical payment flows, integrated into CI/CD and gating deployments
• Improve the testability of new and existing services through test modes, test data, stubs for third-party dependencies, and better observability
• Own quality for one or more product areas, partnering closely with the engineering teams that build them
• Contribute to the shared frameworks, tooling, and test data infrastructure used across the team
• Review test code and technical designs, and help raise the quality bar across engineering
• Collaborate with teams inside and outside engineering to understand merchant and customer pain points and translate them into test coverage

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• Strong experience in at least one major programming language (TypeScript/JavaScript preferred)
• Proven experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks API, and ideally web and mobile
• Solid experience performing functional and non-functional automated tests against complex web applications and APIs
• Strong SQL and data validation skills
• A good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how automated tests gate deployments
• Sound judgement about what to test, at what level, and where coverage adds the most value
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Experience testing payments, fintech, or other high-reliability, high-scale systems
• Experience with performance and load testing and with observability tooling
• Exposure to mobile UI test automation
• Experience using AI to automate workflows, complete tasks more efficiently, and spot opportunities where AI 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.

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About the QA Lead 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

• 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.

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About the Senior Backend Engineer role

• As an engineer at Paystack, you will be at the forefront of our engineering team, driving the development and delivery of high-impact projects.
• You will collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to build scalable, secure, and reliable payment solutions.
• Your contribution will be crucial in shaping the technical direction of the company and mentoring other engineers to achieve their full potential.

We’ll trust you to

• Develop, deploy & maintain complex software systems and services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features and enhancements.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other technical issues.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation within the team.
• Participate in the hiring process to attract and retain top engineering talent.

You’ll thrive in this role if you

• 4+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of contributing to successful projects.
• Expertise in one or more programming languages such as JavaScript,
• Typescript, Python, or Go. We have a preference for Typescript. However, proficiency in any C-style language is a valid consideration.
• Strong understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript) and frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Experience with AWS and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and data structures.
• Proven experience with RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Benefits

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

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About the Senior Database Administrator role

• As a Senior Database Administrator at Paystack, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, performance, and reliability of our database systems.
• You will work closely with product engineering, DevOps, and Data teams to ensure our databases are highly available, performant, and secure.
• The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in relational and non-relational database technologies, and an understanding of modern infrastructure practices including Infrastructure as Code, observability, and automation.
• The selected engineer will report directly to the Head of Infrastructure.
• You will work closely with other members of the department including members of the Devops, Observability, Security teams and quite heavily with other product engineering teams.

We’ll trust you to

• Owns database architecture and strategy end to end, often collaborating across engineering teams.
• Designs and implements database solutions that are scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant to support mission-critical payment workloads.
• Plans and executes database migrations, upgrades, and schema changes with minimal downtime.
• Builds and maintains automated database provisioning, backup, and recovery pipelines using Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Proactively identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks through query optimisation, indexing strategies, and capacity planning.
• Leverages AI-driven tools and techniques for anomaly detection, predictive performance tuning, and automated root cause analysis of database issues.
• Implements and manages database monitoring and alerting using tools like Prometheus and Grafana to ensure early detection of issues.
• Designs and enforces database security policies, including encryption at rest and in transit, access controls, and audit logging.
• Leads incident response for database-related outages, conducts root cause analysis, and drives postmortems to prevent recurrence.
• Develops and maintains disaster recovery and business continuity plans for all database systems.
• Tackles ambiguous, high-risk data challenges proactively and introduces new ideas to simplify complex data architectures.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• 5+ years of experience as a Database Administrator or Database Reliability Engineer.
• Deep expertise with relational databases such as MySQL, including replication, partitioning, and high availability configurations.
• Solid experience with NoSQL databases such as Redis, MongoDB,.
• Experience operating databases on AWS (RDS, Aurora) or similar cloud-managed database services .
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform for provisioning and managing database infrastructure.
• Proficiency in writing scripts and automation using SQL, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience with database observability using monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling (e.g., AI-powered query advisors, LLM-based copilots, or automated performance analysers) to improve database operations and troubleshooting workflows.
• Strong understanding of database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex performance issues in high-throughput, low-latency transactional systems.
• Ability to clearly articulate, implement, and document design decisions around data modelling and database architecture.

Beneficial

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required.
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems, particularly with PCI DSS compliance as it relates to data storage and handling.
• Experience with database change management and CI/CD for schema migrations (e.g., Flyway, Liquibase, gh-ost).
• Familiarity with data warehousing, analytical databases, or streaming platforms such as Kafka.

Benefits

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

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About the Senior DevOps Engineer role

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Paystack, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimise our development and deployment processes, improve system reliability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud technologies, automation tools, database management, networking, and a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
• The selected engineer will join a team of DevOps engineers and report directly to the Lead DevOps Engineer.
• You will work closely with other members of the department including members of the larger infrastructure and security teams and quite heavily with other product engineering teams.

We’ll trust you to

• Own projects end to end, often across teams.
• Design technical solutions that are scalable and maintainable
• Design systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Build end to end automation pipelines.
• Tackle ambiguous, high risk problems proactively.
• Introduce new ideas and simplifies complex systems.
• Design secure systems, manages secrets and implements zero trust models.
• Participate in architectural evolution and software development activities.
• Help debug and diagnose issues that may arise in an intertwined distributed system environment.
• Own CI/CD architecture, minimises downtime and ensures security
• Lead major incident response and postmortems.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Deep Expertise with a variety of AWS services
• Experience with IAC and tools like Terraform, designing reusable modules and enforces standards
• Real world experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience writing scripts and automation using Python, Node.js, Bash, Golang
• Experience with networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, etc.
• Experience building tooling to reduce occurrences of errors and improve engineering productivity
• Experience with CI/CD tooling like ArgoCD, Github Actions, etc.
• Experience working with and monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to clearly articulate, implement and document design decisions

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Experience with machine learning and data analytics.

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 Senior Data Engineer role

• Data engineering at Paystack focuses on building and extending platforms for managing data at scale.
• This involves data ingestion, processing, storage and egress. Data engineers are also responsible for creating and maintaining the infrastructure our data platforms run on.
• Data engineers operate across a diverse tech stack.
• They are expected to be adaptable and drawn to learning new skills and technologies.
• The role requires a proactive individual who can work independently and collaboratively within a remote-first environment, has a strong software engineering background with good experience building and maintaining data pipelines, expertise in Python and experience in streaming technologies.

We’ll trust you to

• Data Pipeline Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines using ETL and ELT methodologies to process and integrate data from various sources into a data lake, a central data warehouse, operational data stores, analytical data marts and various application interfaces.
• Streaming Data Processing: Implement and manage real-time data streaming solutions utilising Kafka, Debezium, Kafka Connect.
• Workflow Orchestration: Build, schedule and maintain custom workflows using Apache Airflow to ensure timely and accurate data processing and delivery.
• Database Management: Work with a variety of database technologies, including relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB) and analytical/big data systems (Redshift, BigQuery, SingleStore).
• Infrastructure as Code: Employ tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm to manage and provision infrastructure efficiently.
• CI/CD Implementation: Develop and maintain continuous integration and deployment pipelines to streamline development processes.
• Testing and Quality Assurance: Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure high code quality, data integrity and system reliability.
• Collaboration: Engage with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders, to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
• Documentation: Maintain clear and comprehensive documentation of data processes, workflows and systems.
• Monitoring and Support: Monitoring system performance and addressing faults and failures in production systems as part of an on-call rotation.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python is essential. JavaScript and Scala development experience is advantageous.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in data engineering roles, with a focus on building and managing data pipelines.
• Minimum of 2 years experience in software and/or application development roles (can be concurrent with data engineering experience)
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Debezium, and Kafka Connect.
• Proficiency in a data pipeline orchestration tool or suitable workflow orchestration tool like Apache Airflow (preferred), Databricks, Dagster or Airbyte.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience working with various database technologies, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redshift (BigQuery and SingleStore advantageous)
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm for infrastructure management.
• Solid knowledge of cloud computing concepts, with experience in AWS services being advantageous.
• Ability to write complex SQL queries across different dialects.
• Familiarity with unit and integration testing methodologies.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to analytical systems and basic data science tooling. Familiarity with basic machine learning and analytical modelling concepts advantageous.
• Exposure to self-service reporting tools like Tableau, Looker and DOMO.

Soft Skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a team and across departments.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities, technologies and tooling. Life-long learners will do well here.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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.