NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer
What is NALA?
At NALA, we’re on a mission to build a bank Africa loves to use. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Customers currently use our app to make payments (in Tanzania and Uganda) 7x faster all without using the internet and across multiple accounts. We’re a small team based in Tanzania, Uganda and Egypt and growing our business and engineering functions. We graduated from Y Combinator a year ago and raised a new round of funding. Find us on TechCrunch, Fast Company and our blog.
Backed by: Y Combinator, Accel Partners (their first African Investment!), DST Global, DFS Lab, NYCA Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors.
Who are we looking for?
We are open to remote preferably in GMT to +3GMT timezones. We are looking for an experienced Android engineer who has an exceptional background in programming and software architecture--someone who is ready to dive into our Android codebase and build the best financial app for Africa.
The ideal candidate is a lover of fintech, a quick learner, strong problem solver, and is not afraid to step out of his or her comfort zone to learn and try new technologies and strategies. The candidate will be expected to dive into the technical details of the product, contribute to NALA’s technical vision, and help recruit NALA’s growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have had experience working in a fast-moving startup environment, and should be excited about the tough technical challenges we face.
NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer
What is NALA?
At NALA, we’re on a mission to build a bank Africa loves to use. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal.
Customers currently use our app to make payments (in Tanzania and Uganda) 7x faster all without using the internet and across multiple accounts. We’re a small team based in Tanzania, Uganda and Egypt and growing our business and engineering functions. We graduated from Y Combinator a year ago and raised a new round of funding. Find us on TechCrunch, Fast Company and our blog.
Backed by: Y Combinator, Accel Partners (their first African Investment!), DST Global, DFS Lab, NYCA Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors.
Who are we looking for?
We are open to remote preferably in GMT to +3GMT timezones. We are looking for an experienced Android engineer who has an exceptional background in programming and software architecture--someone who is ready to dive into our Android codebase and build the best financial app for Africa.
The ideal candidate is a lover of fintech, a quick learner, strong problem solver, and is not afraid to step out of his or her comfort zone to learn and try new technologies and strategies. The candidate will be expected to dive into the technical details of the product, contribute to NALA’s technical vision, and help recruit NALA’s growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have had experience working in a fast-moving startup environment, and should be excited about the tough technical challenges we face.
Yes, definitely Kenya is where M-pesa started but if you look at recent GSMA reports, over $300B was transacted in Mobile Money within Sub Saharan Africa just last year.
Kenya is definitely the country where mobile money is used the most, but we are seeing other countries catching-up quickly. There are two fantastic studies that we’ve been using quite a bit:
1) The World Bank Findex study has 2014 and 2017 stats on the percentage of the population that has executed a mobile money transaction. You’ll see that 7 countries have a ~40% or greater value (Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Gabon, Namibia, Ghana, and Tanzania) and that adoption has increased quite a bit between 2014 and 2017. https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/global-financial-i...
great question, they were actually out of curiosity to learn to build something in fintech.
Interviews themselves are really hard, I struggled to not ask 'leading questions' when I wanted the interviewee to say what I wanted to hear vs what was going to be an even more valuable insight to us.
That’s right! The idea for NALA was totally shaped by these conversations. I wrote a short post about how NALA was born that provides a bit of insight into some of these interviews (https://medium.com/nala-money/how-we-built-nala-e40a0e3e9ac3).
The most obvious take-away was that sending money via USSD really isn’t user friendly at all (takes a long time, have to memorize unique and sometimes complex payment codes, etc.).
Another take-away was that users have multiple sim cards (each 'bank' account may be tied with a different sim card). So having one interface to actually make and manage payments could prove extremely valuable.
What is NALA? At NALA, we’re on a mission to build a bank Africa loves to use. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal. Customers currently use our app to make payments (in Tanzania and Uganda) 7x faster all without using the internet and across multiple accounts. We’re a small team based in Tanzania, Uganda and Egypt and growing our business and engineering functions. We graduated from Y Combinator a year ago and raised a new round of funding. Find us on TechCrunch, Fast Company and our blog.
Backed by: Y Combinator, Accel Partners (their first African Investment!), DST Global, DFS Lab, NYCA Partners, and several incredible fintech angel investors.
Who are we looking for? We are open to remote preferably in GMT to +3GMT timezones. We are looking for an experienced Android engineer who has an exceptional background in programming and software architecture--someone who is ready to dive into our Android codebase and build the best financial app for Africa. The ideal candidate is a lover of fintech, a quick learner, strong problem solver, and is not afraid to step out of his or her comfort zone to learn and try new technologies and strategies. The candidate will be expected to dive into the technical details of the product, contribute to NALA’s technical vision, and help recruit NALA’s growing engineering team. The ideal candidate will have had experience working in a fast-moving startup environment, and should be excited about the tough technical challenges we face.
Read the full job description here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17NhC0k-7F45St_vdezLmUrSd...
To apply ️ - Cover letter (why you, why would you like to work at NALA, what ways you think you could contribute to our team) - CV / Resume
Send both to join (at) nala.money