Capi is building the financial infrastructure for emerging markets trade.
Backed by $18M+ from top-tier investors like Creandum, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and angels from Revolut, Checkout, Stripe, and Remitly, we’re building the financial infrastructure that emerging markets deserve.
Our mission is to grow GDP in emerging markets by making the global financial system fairer and more accessible. We’re tackling global trade, making it easier for importers to pay their international suppliers. Our platform enables businesses to expand rapidly, create jobs, and be engines of prosperity for their countries.
Our team is made up of approx 100 people across 10 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!
Take a look through Capi’s mission & values.
You'll join a small, high-performing team of engineers and product leaders shaping how we scale our platform and our impact.
From your first day, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the founding team based across London & Paris to shape the product vision and all parts of our technical architecture. As we scale our products and deepen our presence across emerging markets, this is a role that builds technology to solve customer problems.
To do that, you must have empathy and curiosity to get to the root cause of the issue and the creativity to build a solution that balances impact, effort, and delight.
Leadership Excellence
Lead by technical example — your influence comes from the quality of your work, your judgment and your ability to bring others along with you, not from authority.
Own technical direction within your team and workstream, collaborating closely with principal engineers and the Head of Engineering to align with broader architectural strategy.
Mentor senior engineers through pairing, code reviews and design discussions — raising the technical floor of the people around you.
Champion engineering best practices across the team, introducing standards and patterns that improve consistency, reliability and developer experience.
Act as a subject matter expert in your core technical domain, and be the person others turn to when the problem is hard.
Delivery Excellence
Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder projects — from scoping and design through to deployment, feedback and iteration.
Translate ambiguous problem spaces into clear technical plans, breaking down large initiatives into well-defined milestones that the team can execute against.
Manage delivery dependencies across teams and communicate progress clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Drive a culture of outcome-oriented delivery within your workstream — focused on impact shipped, not activity completed.
Proactively identify and remove blockers before they slow the team down.
Operational Excellence
Take ownership of the reliability and observability of systems within your domain — ensuring they are monitored, well-understood and resilient to failure.
Handle production incidents with confidence, leading postmortems that result in genuine process improvements rather than just documentation.
Set the standard for what good operational practice looks like within your team — monitoring, alerting, runbooks and on-call hygiene.
Contribute to company-wide reliability initiatives led by principal engineers and the Head of Engineering.
Technical Excellence
Make and defend strong architectural decisions within your workstream, balancing pragmatism with long-term technical health.
Write production-quality code consistently — this is a fully IC role and hands-on technical contribution is expected at all times.
Drive scalability, modularity and performance improvements in the areas of the codebase you own.
Champion code quality through rigorous testing, thoughtful documentation and constructive code reviews that develop the engineers around you.
Proactively identify technical debt and lead initiatives to address it before it compounds.
Culture
Communicate internally and externally about new features, be it collecting feedback pre-implementation or explaining them on launch.
Our tech stack: Typescript, React, NextJS, NodeJS, Express, PostgreSQL
A product mindset is core to how we build - everyone at Capi is encouraged to think about the customer, the business, and the long-term impact of what we ship.
A strong understanding of web development, frontend and backend best practices. While mainly working with JavaScript technologies.
Experience in a VC-backed or high-growth engineering team and building products used by customers.
You are 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.
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.
Based in London or Paris.
Bonus points if you:
Speak and write in French & English
Experience in Fintech, payments, wallets or building ledgers
Expertise in security and data protection best practices needed in a FCA regulated business
Some projects the team has been working on:
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 interview process includes:
Screen interview with our Tech Recruiter Gracie (30 mins) - Learn about the Capi story and mission. Whilst ensuring we are aligned as an exciting opportunity for what you're looking for
Technical challenge with one of our Principal Engineers (1 hr) - Demonstrate your abilities in a whiteboard-style interview with one of our senior team members. We like to keep this as natural as possible, as if you were joining us tomorrow. This interview is to assess your skills, interests, and potential to see the impact you could make. While also ensuring Capi can support your growth
Deep dive (1 hr) - Meet the hiring manager and explore your relevant experience and our upcoming projects
Founder chat (30 mins) - Meet the founders to learn about Capi's growth plans, mission, and revenue targets. This is also your opportunity to ask any final questions to make sure our journey is right for you.
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Offer!
This is a full-time position with a competitive salary, share options, and benefits.
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