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.
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