Senior Full-Stack Engineer at KoraPay - Remote

Korapay is a payment infrastructure servicing a wide band of businesses making local and international payments. We are a marketplace for digital financial services across Africa. Our vision, which is at the core of what we do every day, is to create a world void of digital financial barriers across Africa. We are committed to delivering reliable, secure, and easy to use digital financial solutions to every single customer with a guarantee that it is improving their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Job type: Full-time
Category: Innovation

About The Role

• We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to join the Innovation Team and lead the technical execution of new products, prototypes, and innovation projects.
• This person will coordinate both frontend and backend engineering, guide technical decisions, support the team’s delivery, and ensure products are built properly from idea to launch.
• The ideal candidate should be a strong full-stack engineer with leadership ability, product thinking, and experience or a strong interest in emerging technologies such as AI, automation, blockchain, fintech, and payments

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the frontend and backend engineering direction for innovation projects.
• Build, review, and improve full-stack applications across web, APIs, databases, and integrations.
• Translate product ideas and business requirements into clear technical plans.
• Coordinate frontend and backend engineers to ensure smooth delivery.
• Define technical architecture, API structures, database design, and development standards.
• Support rapid prototyping, MVP development, pilot launches, and product improvements.
• Review code, unblock engineers, and improve engineering quality.
• Ensure products are scalable, secure, reliable, and easy to maintain.
• Explore and apply emerging technologies, including AI, blockchain, automation, and payment-related systems.
• Support sprint planning, task breakdown, documentation, testing, and release readiness.
• Mentor engineers and promote a strong culture of ownership, speed, innovation, and quality.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a Full-Stack Engineer.
• Good frontend experience with tools such as React, Next.js, Vue, or similar frameworks.
• Good backend experience with Node.js.
• Experience building APIs, integrations, dashboards, internal tools, or customer-facing platforms.
• Good understanding of databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms, deployment, CI/CD, and modern development workflows.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, security, performance, and scalability.
• Ability to coordinate engineers and manage frontend/backend dependencies.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving innovation environment.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in AI, automation, blockchain, fintech, payments, or SaaS products.
• Experience working with LLMs, AI agents, RAG systems, workflow automation, or API orchestration.
• Experience with wallets, stablecoins, smart contracts, digital assets, or Web3 infrastructure.
• Experience leading MVPs, pilots, prototypes, or early-stage product development.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, including product, design, data, AI, and business teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Innovation projects are delivered faster and with a better engineering structure.
• Frontend and backend teams are well coordinated.
• Products are built with clear architecture, documentation, and quality standards.
• Engineers are unblocked quickly and supported properly.
• MVPs and pilots move smoothly from concept to launch.
• The team adopts practical new technologies that create real business value.

Ideal Candidate:

• The ideal candidate is a hands-on builder and technical leader who can turn ideas into working products.
• They should be comfortable writing code, guiding engineers, making technical decisions, and working across product, AI, data, and business teams.
• They should be curious, practical, innovative, and excited about building products at the intersection of AI, fintech, payments, automation, and blockchain.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Sponsored and tailored training
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work style
• Low-interest loans
• Group Life Insurance
• Access to up to four therapy sessions monthly
• Day off on your birthday 
• Employee interest groups that provide supportive communities within Kora
• Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online