Job Opportunities at Mono

Mono helps businesses in Africa access financial accounts for financial data and payments. Businesses of all sizes in Africa use our platform to retrieve account details, transactions and move money, reliably and securely, including Carbon, Renmoney, Inflow Finance, Tangerine Insurance, and many others.

In almost a year, we’ve introduced a steady cadence of innovations, such as statement pages, a no-code tool to retrieve bank statements, and much more. We’ve connected to 10% of all active bank accounts in Nigeria, and our investors include YCombinator, Entree Capital, and others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

 

 

Job Title: Head of People

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Department: Business

Description

• We are looking for a Head of HR Operations to oversee all personnel-related matters and ensure we use our resources beneficially. Head of HR Operations responsibilities include designing budgets, applying company policies and managing internal HR systems.
• To be successful in this role, you should have extensive HR experience in senior roles and good knowledge of Human Resources Management software. Ultimately, you will ensure our HR department operates efficiently and aligns with our business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Track key HR metrics like cost per hire and retention rates
• Manage internal communication projects (like job satisfaction surveys)
• Measure the effectiveness of our benefits programs and recommend improvements
• Coordinate employee training and development initiatives
• Ensure our recordkeeping and data processing procedures comply with GDPR requirements
• Lead HR projects like compensation plans revisions
• Implement functional HRMS and internal databases across all departments and locations
• Oversee our payroll and performance evaluation systems
• Design company policies and procedures
• Review and update our employment contracts and agreements
• Prepare budgets by department

Requirements

• Work experience as a Head of HR Operations or similar role
• Experience with Human Resources Information Systems including payroll tools
• Experience in designing compensation and benefits programs
• Good knowledge of labor legislation
• Leadership abilities
• BSc in Human Resources Management; MSc is a plus

Benefits

• Stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Access to mental health service
• Health Insurance
• Training Budget
• Team building events
• Bank holidays swap inside the same month
• Fitness/ wellness stipends
• Yearly offsite
• Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
• Free lunch
• Friday happy hours

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

 

 

Job Title: Financial Controller

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Description

• We are looking for an experienced Financial Controller, to undertake all aspects of financial management, including corporate accounting, regulatory and financial reporting, budget and forecasts preparation, as well as the development of internal control policies and procedures.
• Finance controller responsibilities will also include financial risk management.

Responsibilities

• Manage all accounting operations including Billing, A/R, A/P, GL and Counsel, Cost Accounting, and Revenue Recognition
• Coordinate and direct the preparation of the budget and financial forecasts and report variances
• Prepare and publish timely monthly financial statements
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory reporting
• Research technical accounting issues for compliance
• Support month-end and year-end close process
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and financial reporting
• Manage and comply with local, state, and federal government reporting requirements and tax filings
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
• Additional controller duties as necessary

Requirements

• Advanced Degree in Accounting
• Proven working experience as a Financial Controller
• 5+ years of overall combined accounting and finance experience
• CPA or CMA preferred
• Thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Complete understanding of accounting and tax reporting standards and experience in researching as it relates to accounting and tax issues.
• Experience with creating financial statements
• Experience with general ledger functions and the month-end/year end close process
• Excellent accounting software user and administration skills

Benefits

• Bank holidays swap inside the same month
• Fitness/ wellness stipends
• Yearly offsite
• Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
• Free lunch
• Friday happy hours
• Stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Access to mental health service
• Health Insurance
• Training Budget
• Team building events

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

 

 

 

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Nigeria
Employment type: Full Time

Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about building products that customers love.
• You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build, and roll out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches including working with the public relations team, executives, and other product management team members
• Evaluate promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Represent the company by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services.
• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
• Staying on top of the constantly evolving competitive landscape
• Providing guidance on our high-level product roadmap
• Breaking the product roadmap down into digestible user stories
• Analyzing the usage of our products solutions and iterating based on customer feedback
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact

Requirements

• MS / BS Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves to get the job
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• MacBook pro
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Stock options
• Pension Plan (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Free Launch (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development
• Performance Bonus.

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

 

 

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Description

• We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us build functional systems that improve customer experience.
• DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations.
• You will be spearheading our infrastructure and security team which is responsible for running our platform in a secure, highly available, and scalable manner.
• Our customers rely on us to run their financial operations, and we hold ourselves to a higher standard when it comes to building and running infrastructure.

Requirements

• Run our infrastructure on top of tools technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Smoothly operate AWS managed service. We prefer to leverage existing industry standards and tools, to focus on our business problems
• Run monitoring and alerting systems proactively. Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages
• Be on an on-call rotation for our production infrastructure.
• Improve our deployment processes to be faster and more flexible. Empower product development teams to run autonomously.
• Collaborate on the implementation of compliance and regulatory projects
• Collaborate with Product Managers to prioritize roadmap items to balance infrastructure and business needs

Benefits

• Stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Health Insurance
• Work from any office twice per year
• Training Budget
• Team building events
• Fitness/ wellness stipends
• Yearly offsite
• Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
• Free lunch
• Friday happy hours

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

 

 

 

Job Title: Legal and Regulatory Counsel

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full time

Description

• We are looking for a highly qualified Legal Counsel to oversee the legal aspects of our business. You will safeguard our reputation by guaranteeing that the company strictly follows law guidelines and give legal advice to management about all relevant issues.
• The successful candidate will effectively ensure legal conformity and minimize probability of exposure.

Responsibilities

• Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, public authority etc.), creating relations of trust
• Draft and solidify agreements, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the company’s full legal rights
• Deal with complex matters with multiple stakeholders and forces
• Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to everyone in the organization
• Maintain current knowledge of alterations in legislation
• Give accurate and timely counsel to executives in a variety of legal topics (labor law, partnerships, international ventures, corporate finance etc.)
• Collaborate with management to devise efficient defense strategies
• Specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance
• Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations
• Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advise on possible legal issues

Requirements

• BSc degree in Law or J.D. degree
• MA or BSc in Business Administration will be considered an advantage;
• Proven experience as a Legal Counsel in a business environment
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate law and procedures
• Full comprehension of the influences of the external environment of a corporation
• Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies
• A high degree of professional ethics and integrity
• Sound judgement and ability to analyze situations and information
• Outstanding communication skills.

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• MacBook pro
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Stock options
• Pension Plan (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Free Launch (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development
• Performance Bonus

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

 

 

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Department: Engineering

Description

• As the head of engineering, you will lead our engineering department and help us build great products. You’ll also manage our infrastructure and ensure all internal systems operate securely and effectively. To be successful in this role, you should be confident managing your teams while, at the same time, setting goals, budgets, and timelines for various projects.
• We also expect you to be in charge of our integrations with external partners and oversee all software development plans from ideation to execution. Ultimately, you’ll make sure we use innovative technologies that maximize our productivity and help our company grow.

Responsibilities

• You will work together with the reverse engineering team, which is a specialized team developing and maintaining our financial ecosystem integrations, front-end engineers, and backend engineers.
• We don’t establish a fixed hands-on/off split, but we encourage you to keep coding to keep your technical acumen sharp and to have a solid understanding of the technical challenges that your team faces.
• Establish processes and address growing pains during high-growth phases.
• Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to suggest improvements
• Set objectives, follow performance, and provide feedback.
• Team happiness, wellbeing, and productivity.
• Partner with Product Managers on objectives, priorities, trade-offs, and risk.
• Participating in architecture discussions and planning.
• Ability to act as Tech Lead and being more hands-on when required.
• Maintain and foster our culture by interviewing and hiring only the most qualified individuals with an eye towards diversity.
• Ensure compliance with security regulations
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines
• Prepare and manage the engineering department’s budget
• Setting up KPIs and managing appraisals
• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources
• Hire engineers and coordinate their training
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment
• Develop high-quality software design and architecture
• Coach first, player second. You are a force multiplier for your team and have a passion for the team and team members’ success.

Requirements

• Work experience as an engineering manager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies and modern human-computer interfaces
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development using javascript.
• Good understanding of agile methodologies
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills
• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field

Benefits

• Private Health Insurance
• MacBook pro
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Stock options
• Pension Plan (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Free Launch (If you’re based in Nigeria)
• Paid Time Off
• Training & Development
• Performance Bonus

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

 

 

Job Title: Backend / Reverse Engineer, Data

Location: Nigeria
Employment type: Full Time

Job Description

• We’re looking for a senior backend engineer with experience in reverse engineering or custom web scraping to join the financial data team.
• This team is responsible for Mono’s financial data APIs and our mission is to reimagine how consumers share their financial data in a convenient and secure way.
• As a reverse engineer, you will be using advanced techniques to access previously inaccessible financial accounts. We use a set of approaches, among which the analysis of consumer Android applications to infer implicit network APIs and endpoints.
• The right candidate will need to be very familiar with how Android Apps work behind the scenes, the Android runtime, and techniques such as decompilation, deobfuscation, and network traffic analysis. Cryptographic knowledge (PKI, Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption, certificates handling) will also be highly valuable.

Requirements

• Perform network traffic analysis and infer implicit APIs from institutions’ web and mobile apps.
• Develop and evaluate bank-level encryption schemes (AES, RSA) and android APK reverse engineering.
• Develop web scraping pipelines via Javascript.
• Apply your knowledge set to fetch data from multiple sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it.
• Are innovative, push technical boundaries, and are excited to solve problems that have never been solved before
• Communicate in a clear and direct manner
• Can self manage, set an implementation schedule, and manage communication with team members and stakeholders
• Can mentor other engineers and lead by example
• Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions.
• Understand and be able to reverse engineer authentication processes both in web and mobile apps.
• Build solutions to stay on top of reliability and data quality
• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience with data retrieval and reverse engineering technology.
• Sound Knowledge in bypassing Bot Detection Techniques Experience using HTTP Proxy techniques to protects web scrapers against site ban, IP leak, browser crash, CAPTCHA, and proxy failure.
• Ability to be nimble, proactive, and comfortable working with minimal specifications.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
• Can develop data extracting and processing using raw and programmatic techniques without scrapy or Puppeteer.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and poorly defined complex problems

Benefits

• Stock options
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Access to mental health service
• Health Insurance
• Training Budget
• Team building events
• Bank holidays swap inside the same month
• Fitness/ wellness stipends
• Yearly offsite
• Fresh fruit every week, all-you-can-drink tea and coffee
• Free lunch
• Friday happy hours.

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

 

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