Solidity Engineer at Afriex Nigeria

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At Afriex, our mission is to remove the friction of sending money across borders and to level the economic playing field on a global scale. To achieve this we are building a global payment network: a scalable and usable infrastructure that integrates existing fiat and crypto payment networks, including but not limited to crypto exchanges, banks, card processors, and public blockchains. We believe that cryptocurrency will set a new standard for secure online payments, giving individuals and merchants a seamless way to transact with anybody in the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Solidity Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)

Solidity Engineer at Afriex Nigeria

Requirements

You might be a great fit for the role of Blockchain engineer if:

• You have experience working on blockchain technologies: In this role, you will research, experiment, and invent new products generally related to blockchain and automation space. Curiosity and fearlessness are key ingredients. In short, you must be able to take on new technical challenges without much supervision.
• You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems: You will design, build and maintain APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems. You will engineer money-movement infrastructure, data pipelines, banking systems, and more. You will leverage the best of Afriex’s stack and build from the ground up when needed.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts: Implementing a production-ready financial platform is difficult interdisciplinary work. We’re seeking someone who’s up to the challenge. You should not be afraid to ask a lot of questions: you should know how to notice when you’re confused and say so when you are. At the same time, you should have the drive and the organizational skills to take charge of your learning. We’ll work together to strike a healthy balance between collaboration and independence.
• You have strong skills for asynchronous communication and remote work: Work at Afriex has always been asynchronous and fully remote, and will continue to be so after the COVID-19 pandemic’s travel restrictions are over. We’re looking for an empathetic person who doesn’t mind collaborating asynchronously, with the excellent verbal and written communication skills necessary to thrive in that environment. After it is safe to travel, we plan to bring the team together in person approximately once per quarter (but we won’t be doing that until it is safe).

Please consider applying even if you don’t have:

• A College Degree in Computer Science or Engineering,

Although you should have:

• Strong coding experience with production-grade software that you can point to.

You Beed:

• Your own laptop – Afriex has a Bring Your Own Device Policy (BYOD) for all roles.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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

How to apply and what to expect

• Send in your CV
• Send in a sample or description of your product work. Your work sample can be one or more public links to code you’ve written, or if your best work has happened behind closed doors, it can be a description of the work you did in enough detail for us to understand it.
• Initial interview: We’ll chat with you about your background, prior experience, motivation for working at Afriex, and other introductory things. This call is about getting to know you on your terms.After the call, we’ll send you a short take-home technical quiz, this assessment is multiple choice and should only take 30 minutes. It is meant to measure general programming ability. It uses a large library of questions covering programming logic, system design, CS fundamentals, and front-end engineering.
• Zero-whiteboard technical interview: In this interview, You’ll meet with an Afriex engineer to solve problems on leetcode.com. We don’t expect you to know the answer to every question we might ask—an impressive technical interview might just as much mean that you asked insightful questions as that you had insightful answers.
• Final team interview: After the technical interview, we’ll let you know whether we’re interested in moving forward to a final interview where you’ll get an opportunity to talk to the entire team at Afriex. We’ll ask you more questions about your leadership and organizational experience and you’ll be able to ask any questions you still have about our culture, our plans, our upcoming technical challenges, and whatever else comes to your mind.
• Offer: After the final interview, we’ll let you know whether we’re interested in extending an offer. If we extend an offer, our team members will continue to be available for you to ask anyone any questions that might have come up for you since the last interview.

Note

• Different professional or academic backgrounds are welcome
• This is a remote role and is open to candidates from all regions.
• All of our interviews will be conducted over video chat.
• We want you to be comfortably able to show yourself off in the best possible light. If there are any accommodations we can make during the interview process to make things easier for you, please let us know. At any point, please feel free to email any questions to: careers@afriex.co.
• We look forward to meeting you!
• Afriex is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.