Careers
Build the systems that move businesses forward.
We are looking for engineers, designers and problem solvers who care about craft and want their work to make a visible difference — for organizations across Africa and beyond.
Our engineering culture
We build software that organizations depend on every day: payments, operations, logistics, commerce. That responsibility shapes how we work. We value clear thinking over heroics, well-understood systems over clever ones, and decisions that are explained rather than imposed.
Engineers here own problems end to end — from understanding the business need to running the code in production. You will review and be reviewed, write things down, and help shape the practices of a growing engineering organization.
What we value
Ownership
We take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks, and follow our work all the way into production.
Craft
We care about the quality of what we ship: readable code, thoughtful design and systems that are easy to operate.
Candor
We give and receive direct, respectful feedback, and we raise risks early rather than late.
Curiosity
We ask why, learn continuously and share what we discover with the people around us.
Collective success
We win as a team. Helping a colleague unblock a problem counts as much as closing our own tickets.
How we collaborate
Our teams are small and cross-functional, bringing engineering, design and product together around a shared goal. We work in the open, keep context written down and make room for focused, uninterrupted work.
- Design documents and ADRs for significant decisions
- Code review on every change, with constructive feedback
- Close, direct collaboration with clients and end users
- Asynchronous-friendly communication and clear priorities
Learning and growth
The problems we work on span industries and technologies, which makes every project a learning opportunity. We invest in helping people grow their skills, broaden their scope and deepen their judgment.
- Mentoring and pairing with experienced engineers
- Internal knowledge sharing and technical talks
- Exposure to diverse domains: finance, logistics, commerce, public sector
- Room to contribute to our own Gwavo product ecosystem
Areas of expertise
We welcome people with depth in one area and curiosity for the others.
Backend engineering
- API and service design
- Distributed systems
- Relational and NoSQL databases
- Event-driven architecture
- Payments and transactional integrity
Frontend & mobile
- Modern web applications
- Native and cross-platform mobile
- Offline-first experiences
- Accessibility and performance
- Design system implementation
Cloud & DevOps
- Infrastructure as code
- Containers and orchestration
- CI/CD pipelines
- Observability and SRE practices
- Cost and capacity optimization
Data & AI
- Data engineering and pipelines
- Analytics and reporting
- Machine learning in production
- Applied generative AI
- Data governance and quality
Product design
- User research
- Interaction and interface design
- Prototyping and usability testing
- Design systems
- Service design
Quality & security
- Test automation
- Application security
- Threat modeling
- Performance testing
- Identity and access management
Open positions
No open positions at the moment
We are not actively recruiting for specific roles right now. New positions will be published here as soon as they open — in the meantime, we are always glad to hear from talented people.
Don’t see the right role?
If our work resonates with you, tell us about yourself, your expertise and the kind of problems you want to solve. We review every introduction and will reach out when there is a fit.