Offline Agent / Marketing Representative Job at Pastel Africa

Pastel Africa is a venture backed, Silicon Valley and Lagos-based startup digitizing small businesses across Africa. Our three co-founders graduated from Stanford University and are building digital tools to address pain points of small businesses across Africa, starting from Nigeria.

There are over 450 million small businesses across Africa, with 40 million in Nigeria alone. Even though small businesses make up the bulk of the continent’s economy, they are extremely underserved, with pain points ranging from manual and inefficient processes to lack of access to capital. Since launching in September 2021, we have built multiple mobile-based apps to help over 120k small businesses manage their bookkeeping, generate invoices and provide receipts. The next step along our journey is to provide financial services to these businesses. Our team believes in product led growth and are dedicated to providing the best platform for small businesses across Africa to manage their day-to-day activities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Offline Agent / Marketing Representative

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Team: Engineering
Start Date: ASAP

Your impact

• You will be working with other passionate and bright engineers, designers and product managers as part of the most exciting fintech team on the African continent to tackle big issues facing businesses.
• You will build really cool and impactful products that will speak to the heart of businesses in Africa.
• Pastel is looking for a mid-level Android Engineer with background and skills in software engineering who is passionate about or want to learn about building fintech products that will serve and transform the lives of millions of small businesses in developing countries.

Role Deliverables

• Design and build advanced applications for the Android platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

What we are looking for

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years Experience in developing native Android applications
• Should have Strong experience in developing Android application with MVVM architecture
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Proficient in Android Jetpack libraries such as Lifecycle, Room, Navigation, Data Binding and Paging
• Strong experience in integration of REST APIs and familiarity with the latest mobile app UI UX standards
• Solid understanding of the full-android mobile development life cycle.
• Knowledge of working with version control system: Git
• Ability to execute independently and autonomously, seeking out areas that need attention, rather than being asked to look at specific problem areas.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Willingness to get their hands dirty.
• Strong communication and organization skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working at FinTechs serving small businesses.