About Cellulant:
Cellulant is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing global economy.
With a presence in over 24 countries and 200+ payment methods across cards, bank transfer and mobile money, our single API payment platform, Tingg, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over 1 million transactions daily for market leaders in various sectors, such as Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we drive trust, commerce and scale – and connect companies to their ambitions.
Our Story:
Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth.
From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible.
Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and transform payments into a tool for progress.
Since our founding in 2003, we've continuously adapted and grown, leveraging our experiences to simplify payments for businesses. We are driven by an unshakable belief that seamless people-centred payments are the key to unlocking prosperity.
Today, Cellulant powers online and offline payment processing, allowing businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and accelerate business growth.
Our Mission:
To deliver seamless, secure and innovative payment solutions for businesses.
Our Vision:
To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas.
Role Overview:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business. You are responsible for developing backend applications using best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools in the Cloud Native landscape.
- Build configuration and deployment assets required to deploy and run the distributed applications.
- Work with the frontend and API engineers to define RESTFul API Specifications.
- Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and components.
- Participating in Sprint planning and tracking work items
- Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
- Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performant
- Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple
- Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.
- Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.
- Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.
- Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.
- Participating in architecture and code reviews.
- Ability to communicate with team members and stakeholders - especially in writing.
Educational Requirements, Skills, and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
- 7y+ Experience with Java on large-scale projects.
- Strong knowledge of building cloud-native applications using Java and Springboot.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Highly skilled in unit and automated testing in Springboot.
- Experience building multi-tenant distributed SAAS applications
- Experience with CI/CD.
- Experience with performance analysis and optimization in Java is a strong plus.
- Proven system design experience.
- Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.
- High agency, proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.
- You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft.
Why Work for Us?
At Cellulant, we are more than a payments company: we are bridge-builders. We believe that by simplifying the way people pay and get paid, we are connecting companies to their ambitions, people to opportunities, and Africa to the global economy. Our work goes beyond payments—it’s about what people, businesses, and communities can do when the movement of money becomes more dependable, seamless, and secure.
Some exciting things about us...
- We have an extensive footprint: We have an office presence in 10 countries, and our products serve 24 countries across Africa, with a global workforce of about 300 employees.
- We believe innovation is at the heart of Fintech: Thousands of market leaders and top enterprises trust our technology to power their payments. Our customers are in various sectors, including financial services, travel and hospitality, telecom, e-commerce, remittance companies, SaaS, and the gig economy.
- We support a diverse and inclusive workforce: We focus on the growth and development of our employees through well-developed, individualised career paths, ensuring you reach your full potential in a supportive and delivery-oriented environment.
- We put our employees first: At Cellulant, your contribution is rewarded competitively. We use clear career levels and role titles, and benchmark our base pay against data and a well-established internal process. Your actual salary will reflect your experience, skills, impact and the scope of the role, as well as our business needs and prevailing market conditions. We also offer generous personal time off, and medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).
- We seek collaborative builders: At Cellulant, we believe that great ideas happen when we come together. Therefore, we nurture a collaborative work environment that challenges, engages, and empowers each person to contribute to the growth and success of the business.
- We solve Africa's digital economy: We’re solving payment challenges on the continent to create opportunities and accelerate economic growth for all of Africa.
