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Kora (formerly Korapay) is a leading pan-African payment infrastructure company that provides a robust payment engine and API for businesses to accept pay-ins, process payouts, and settle transactions across Africa. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, with additional offices in Toronto and Birmingham, Kora enables both local and global merchants to scale rapidly by offering multi-channel payment options, including cards, bank transfers, mobile money, and virtual accounts.

Employees at Kora benefit from a highly flexible and supportive work environment that emphasizes professional growth and inclusivity. The company offers a comprehensive perks package that includes fully remote or hybrid work styles, health insurance with dependent coverage, and a yearly sponsored training allowance to boost professional development.

Individuals interested in the Jobs at Korapay should review the details, requirements, and application process provided below.

Backend Engineer:

• Job Type: Full Time | Remote
• Required Qualification: BSC/HND/BA
• Category: Tech
• Location: Nigeria
• Benefits: Salary+ Training + Employment

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Job Details:

• This is a high-impact, collaborative role responsible for driving outcomes across the product and engineering team.
• You would be working with relevant stakeholders across the different teams within the organization to help define and implement tools and solutions to meet the business objectives.
• The role covers all stages, from requirements gathering, systems design, implementation, testing and operational support.
• As a Backend Engineer at Kora, you will focus on building new scalable features, optimizing and maintaining existing features, participating heavily in code and technical reviews, working closely with other engineers in the team to guide with implementation and technical direction, research and suggest new ways to improve our application and processes.
• You will be heavily involved in designing, optimising, and implementing the next phase for our applications and backend infrastructure as we continue to scale and meet the ever-growing demands of our merchants and the business.

Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Working collaboratively with our CTO (Chief Technology Officer), Product Management, Product Design, Business, Compliance, and IT Team to ensure each merchant is onboarded in a professional, timely manner.
• Strong working relationship with Managing Team / Directors / Team Leads around the business.

Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining secure large-scale payment solutions to support our merchants and the business
• Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve and optimize the reliability and performance of current applications, and implementations.
• Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Participating actively in code and technical reviews.
• Document development phases and monitor, and debug systems.

Job Requirements:

What you’ll need:

• 3+ years of experience building large-scale and data-intensive applications. This includes but is not limited to expertise in building large-scale and performant applications, working with large data, microservices, distributed systems, data and database optimization, etc.
• Familiarity with our commonly used technology choices including Node.js, Typescript, and MySQL.
• Experience working on low latency, high throughput distributed systems & with micro-service architectures.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and prioritization skills.
• Deliberate drive to constantly improve and get better.
• Experience engaging in collaborative multi-functional teams.
• Experience with test frameworks and writing quality tests.
• A strong desire to give our merchants a great experience using our payment infrastructure.

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Sponsored and tailored training
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work style
• Annual performance bonus
• 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!

Technical Support Engineer

• Job Type: Full Time | Remote
• Required Qualification: BSC/HND/BA
• Category: Tech
• Location: Nigeria
• Benefits: Salary+ Training + Employment

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Job Details:

• As a Technical Support Engineer at Kora, you will be responsible for supporting the timely resolution of our merchants’ technical queries.
• In this role, you will work closely with the Engineering and Merchant Success teams by assisting merchants with issue resolution and escalating more complex cases to the Engineering team.

Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Report to the CTO (Oluwasegun Adeleye) working as part of the ever-innovative Engineering team
• Working collaboratively with our CTO (Chief Technology Officer), Product Management, Product Design, Merchant Success, Business, Compliance, and Information Security teams.

Responsibilities
Here are a couple of things you’ll be doing:

• Provide technical support to merchants via phone, email, chat, and other communication channels during onboarding and ongoing use of Kora’s products, helping to ensure a smooth experience.
• Collaborate with the Merchant Success team and other internal teams to identify and report product bugs, escalating critical issues to the Product Development team as needed.
• Investigate and troubleshoot technical issues reported by merchants, seeking guidance from senior engineers when necessary.
• Assist in identifying and troubleshooting technical issues related to our products and services.
• Act as a first point of contact for technical problems relating to merchant and product rails, escalating complex issues appropriately.
• Escalate technical issues to the appropriate teams and follow up under guidance until resolution.
• Monitor integration channels and report technical issues to integration partners, keeping senior team members informed.
• Support the development of proactive ways to automate routine tasks within the team functions.
• Take ownership of assigned issues, handling and solving them depending on complexity, while consulting seniors for guidance when needed.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with merchants, acting as a supportive technical contact.
• Follow set procedures for proper escalation of issues to the appropriate team.
• Document and track merchant issues and resolutions in the knowledge base, preparing reports for review by senior engineers.
• Assist in expanding relationships with customers by supporting new product and operational initiatives.
• Help analyze prospects’ business and technical requirements, assisting senior team members in developing solutions that meet those needs.
• Support monitoring of product integration and ramp-up to ensure successful implementation.
• Assist in analyzing customer needs and suggesting possible upgrades or additional features under guidance.
• Work closely with the Product and Merchant Success teams to help customize specific products for customers.
• Provide developers with customer feedback to help identify potential new features or products.

Job Requirement:

Here’s what are we looking for:

• Must have 1–2 years experience in a technical support, IT support, or customer-facing technical role in a B2B, fintech, banking, or SaaS environment.
• Experience dealing with customers from a technical support perspective.
• Basic experience working with and understanding APIs and API testing platforms and the ability to explain them to third parties.
• Foundational knowledge of financial technologies, including payment processing and digital financial products.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for interacting with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Passion for customer success and interest in understanding client needs.
• Ability to follow structured troubleshooting, documentation, and escalation processes.
• Good organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tickets at once.
• Experience using CRM and ticketing systems such as Zendesk, Freshdesk, or Salesforce.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Basic knowledge of SQL, especially MySQL, is an added advantage

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Sponsored and tailored training
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work style
• Annual performance bonus
• 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!