Latest Vacancies at AZA Finance

Category: Legal & Compliance

Job Summary

• We are looking for an experienced Legal Counsel who will assist the Senior Legal Counsel in ensuring that effective legal support is provided to commercial teams, to propose and implement improvements to current legal processes and to assist the Senior Legal Counsel where needed.
• We are looking for someone who is detail oriented, innovative, pragmatic, energetic and passionate. Someone who can operate with a high sense of urgency and accuracy with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Supporting operational teams with legal advice on contracts and service agreements), framework agreements and related agreements having a particular focus Finance & Payments.
• Administration of due diligence activities and review of associated documentation (both regulatory and legal in nature) in line with internal processes and requirements.
• Provision of legal support in a range of other legal matters including company secretarial, data protection and financial regulation.
• Participating in corporate project work and providing as hoc company/commercial legal advice.
• Identifying, monitoring and managing legal risks affecting the group’s businesses and advising on the impact of those risks and measures to mitigate them.
• Supporting the management of legal priorities and objectives within the business.
• Building relationships with commercial colleagues and embedding awareness of legal risk management and corporate policy issues.
• Developing legal precedents in line with legal, regulatory and corporate environment.
• Undertake all activities in accordance with applicable group policies and procedures so as to ensure that the interests of the Group and individual corporate entities are protected at all times.
• Ensue that legal and commercial risks are identified and minimised through effective communication with applicable stakeholders as well as provide relevant support to functional departments and, when necessary Executive Committee.
• Carry out any other duties within the competence of the role holder, as requested (including additional working hours as and when required).
• Travel when required in line with business needs.
• Keep up to date with industry changes, procedures and requirements relating to job role.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a top tier firm or mid-level firm. (in-house experience with a fin-tech will be an added advantage)
• Corporate Commercial law experience.
• Transaction advisory experience working in a top tier firm or mid-level firm
• Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Organised, strong attention to detail, and process-oriented
• Energetic and flexible
• Reliable, independent, and able to juggle multiple tasks effectively
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Proficient with Microsoft office tools
• Proficient with Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work-life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.· …… and more!!

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Category: Engineering

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our development team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers.
• We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices. The post holder will report to the Software Engineering Manager.
• This role is open to candidates in London,Dakar,Lagos and Nairobi

How your skills and passion will come to life at AZA

• Mentor, train and support engineers in order to develop our in-house engineering skills.
• Innovate, develop, maintain and contribute to the existing AZA codebase and its associated applications.
• Improve our overall system development process via process improvements.
• Optimise application performance and test coverage.
• Deliver presentations demonstrating application feature delivery.
• Work with our product team to refine product requirements.
• Feasibility and effort estimations.
• Provide support to our customers including triaging any issues.

Requirements - What we are looking for

• Significant experience in a similar role Good knowledge of working with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Preferably someone who has worked with Ruby and Ruby on Rails for a minimum of 5 years.
• Working knowledge of Javascript specifically React.
• Good knowledge of using automated testing frameworks such as RSpec and Cypress.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• A strong and flexible work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired:

• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Global / regional network / exposure in FinTech / Blockchain industry.
• One of the hottest, fastest scaling startups in Africa.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work -life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard.
• …… and more!!

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Category: Engineering

Job Summary

• We are looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer who can help our ever-growing team in moving us to the latest generation of frontend application development whilst also making sure our direct to customer products remain performant and available to our customers.
• The post holder will report to the Software Engineering Manager.
• This role is open to candidates in either London, Dakar, Lagos or Nairobi.

How your skills and passion will come to life at AZA:

• Innovate, Develop, Maintain and Contribute to the existing AZA’s codebase and it’s associated applications.
• Work closely with the engineering leads to aid with architecture decisions for the application and supporting infrastructure.
• Mentor, train and support other engineers in order to develop our in house frontend development skills.

Requirements

• Preferably someone who has worked as a Senior Frontend Engineer for a minimum of 5 years.
• Proven proficiency Javascript, Typescript specifically React.
• Good knowledge of working with APIs and specifically using them as data sources for frontend applications.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing frontend applications on the cloud in an automated way.
• Good knowledge of current Javascript standards (ES6+).
• Proven proficiency using automated Javascript testing frameworks.
• Proficient with CSS3 and related tools/methodologies such as Less and/or Sass, CSS modules, CSS-in-JS etc.
• A strong and flexible work ethic.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desired:

• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring and alerting tools.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology specifically Scrum.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles, especially the 12 Factor App and Infrastructure as Code.
• Familiarity with container architecture, especially Docker.
• Preference to participate in pair-programming and using GitHub pull requests to review code of others.
• Confidence in refactoring and working with both new and existing codebases.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Casual work environment.
• Great work -life balance.
• We value autonomy.
• Opportunity for growth for all employees.
• Opportunity to work hard and play hard and more!!