Technical Leader for Financial Services

5 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa yassir Full time

Yassir is a leading super App in the Maghreb region, transforming the way daily services are delivered. We operate in 45 cities across Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, with recent expansions into France, Canada, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

We offer on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery. Building on this infrastructure, we're introducing financial services to help our users pay, save, and borrow digitally. Our goal is to help usher the continent into a digital economy era.

About the role

We're seeking an engineering manager to lead our team of financial services developers based out of Berlin or Paris. As part of our expansion effort, you'll be responsible for leading a tech team supporting Yassir's product development and delivery. You will own and build large-scale systems and micro-services.

Key responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with product and design teams to understand end-user requirements and develop technical solutions.
  • Contribute to hiring the engineering team for the product you're responsible for.
  • Establish a culture of technical excellence and ensure the success and personal growth of your team.
  • Oversee engineering teams and their projects, ensuring they can deliver their best work by spotting and alleviating blockers and coaching teammates.

About your experience

You should have outstanding technical skills and be confident in leading and serving tech teams. Good understanding of agile methodologies and extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces are required. Solid software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable, and meets desired architectural objectives.

You will be part of one of the first Algerian startups to go through the Y Combinator program and one of the fastest-growing tech companies in North Africa. We are currently in +30 cities (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, France, and Germany).

Benefits include attractive salary and stake in the company, subsidized public transit pass, and the opportunity to make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans.



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