Staff Fullstack Engineer

About The Company

Capi helps businesses in emerging markets pay their international suppliers quickly and efficiently. We’ve raised over $18m across Seed and Series A (Q4 2024) and are on a fast growth trajectory globally.

Capi was founded by Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle, and Tom Watson. Mitch and Scott were COO/CFO/GC and CRO/CMO at Taptap Send, a remittance unicorn, and have spent two decades between them working in emerging markets, and Tom is a career entrepreneur and founder who lead our Tech development.

Working with in emerging markets is opening the door for us to have an economical impact on African markets by allowing businesses to pay suppliers and partners through our platform - we are currently live across Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kenya, and Mali, with many more coming soon.

Our team is made up of approx 60 people across 12 countries; we are a group of a highly-ambitious, get-it-done people, who like to work hard on something that has a tangible impact in the world. And we’re looking for more people to join our team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the product process from end-to-end, from ideation to building the UI, backend logic, deployment, feedback and measurement
• Collaborate and lead projects across cross functional teams
• Build intuitive and performant web interfaces for business owners in Africa
• Implement IT security and data protection best practices in a regulated environment
• Observe opportunities for improvements internally to help automate our non-tech processes and add to our tech best practices to improve our output and efficiency
• Communicate internally and externally about new features, be it collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them on launch

Some Projects We’Ve Worked On In The Past:

• Automated payouts and AI invoice approval
• Onboarding + payment automation with Swift network and banking partners across the world
• WhatsApp bot that creates quotes for customers based on their responses
• Self-serve onboarding flow that collects company information and KYC documents from customers
• Asynchronous workers that OCR invoices
• Internal tooling to manage and process millions of dollars of transactions

Our stack is: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL

Requirements

• Experience in a VC-backed or high-growth engineering team and building products used by customers
• A strong understanding of web development, frontend and backend best practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for expressing ideas, designs, and potential solutions with both technical and non-technical team members and customers
• You care about our mission and solving the problems faced by African businesses
• Comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment with high pace, rapid growth, involvement in the entire product development process and a high degree of ambiguity
• Based in London or Paris

Bonus If:

• French Speaking

• Experience in Fintech, payments and/or emerging markets
• Expertise in security and data protection best practices

Additional Information

• This is a full-time position with competitive salary, share options, and benefits
• Ideal Start date: December 2025 (we are aware that a notice period may need to be fulfilled and can adjust accordingly)

Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds

Capi is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes candidates from diverse backgrounds.