Company: Paystack
Location: Nigeria (and South Africa for Data Engineer role) Industry: Fintech / Digital Payments / Data Engineering
Job Type: Full-time
🌍 Overview
Paystack is a Stripe-owned African fintech company on a mission to accelerate digital payments across Africa. Serving over 200K businesses across Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya — including MTN, Qatar Airways, Burger King, UPS, and AXA Mansard Insurance — Paystack builds the payment infrastructure powering modern commerce on the continent.
These opportunities are suitable for experienced professionals ready to work in a high-impact, fast-paced, and technically demanding environment. If you have solid experience in Nigeria’s fintech space and enjoy building processes that protect trust while keeping onboarding smooth,Paystack offers the perfect platform to make a real impact across Nigeria and South Africa operations.
📌 Available Positions
- Senior Program Manager — Nigeria
- Data Engineer — Nigeria or South Africa
⚙️ Key Responsibilities
Senior Program Manager
- Own and drive execution of multiple high-priority programs across Infrastructure and Security from initiation through delivery.
- Partner closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to define goals, scope, success metrics, milestones, and delivery plans.
- Act as the coordination layer between Infrastructure and Security teams and Engineering, ensuring projects and dependencies are tracked and followed through.
- Partner with the Security Compliance team to coordinate audit activities, align timelines with external auditors, and track evidence collection and remediation actions to completion.
- Build and maintain program plans including work breakdowns, schedules, dependency maps, and RAID logs.
- Identify, track, and proactively mitigate risks and blockers; escalate early with clear options and trade-offs.
- Run execution rituals kickoffs, weekly program reviews, stakeholder updates, and retrospectives.
- Communicate progress clearly to stakeholders including status, risks, scope changes, timelines, and outcomes.
Data Engineer
- Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines using ETL and ELT methodologies integrating data from various sources into a data lake, central warehouse, operational stores, and analytical marts.
- Implement and manage real-time data streaming solutions using Kafka, Debezium, and Kafka Connect.
- Build, schedule, and maintain custom workflows using Apache Airflow to ensure timely and accurate data processing.
- Work with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases (MongoDB), and analytical systems (Redshift, BigQuery, SingleStore).
- Employ Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm to manage and provision infrastructure efficiently.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline development processes.
- Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure high code quality, data integrity, and system reliability.
- Monitor system performance and address faults in production systems as part of an on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and deliver solutions.
🎓 Requirements
Senior Program Manager
- 6+ years of program/project management experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives, preferably in engineering organisations.
- Proven ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams, dependencies, and shifting priorities while maintaining delivery quality.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure and security domains — including platform reliability, observability, CI/CD pipelines, IAM, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments and define program structure from scratch.
- Excellent stakeholder management able to influence without authority and align diverse teams toward shared goals.
- Strong written and verbal communication including crisp status reporting and executive-ready updates.
- Experience using AI tools to automate repetitive project operations such as status synthesis, meeting notes, and action tracking.
Data Engineer
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of data engineering experience with a focus on building and managing data pipelines.
- Minimum 2 years of software/application development experience.
- Proficiency in Python; JavaScript and Scala experience is advantageous.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka, Debezium, and Kafka Connect.
- Proficiency in Apache Airflow or similar workflow orchestration tools (Dagster, Airbyte, Databricks).
- Strong experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redshift; BigQuery and SingleStore are advantageous.
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm for infrastructure management.
- Solid knowledge of cloud computing, particularly AWS.
- Exposure to BI tools like Tableau, Looker, or DOMO is advantageous.
💼 Work Structure & Compensation
- Salary: Not stated
- Work Mode: Remote-friendly / On-site (Nigeria; Nigeria or South Africa for Data Engineer)
- High-impact environment within a globally backed fintech company
- Culture rooted in transparency, clear communication, kindness, and high standards
🧾 How to Apply
Senior Program Manager — APPLY HERE
Data Engineer — APPLY HERE
Application Deadline: Not stated
Source: Paystack Official Careers Page — Greenhouse
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