Who we want.
Four traits we look for, every role. No "passionate self-starter" filler. Concrete behaviours we've seen do the work.
You've shipped to Nigerians.
You've put a product in front of users in Lagos, PH, Abuja — anywhere — and watched what they did with it. You can talk for an hour about what went wrong and what you learned.
You think rate manipulation is theft.
Quoting one rate and settling at another isn't a market mechanic. It's a category-wide bug, and you want to be the person fixing it.
You pick up the inbox at 2am.
When a user is stuck, you don't draft a memo about ticket SLAs. You answer the message. You go to where the work is.
You build for the next 10,000 users.
Not the next ten million. We're not playing a venture-scale fantasy. We're building something a real cohort will swear by, then growing from there.
What you get.
Six things, written down, that we won't walk back after you start.
- 01
Real equity
Meaningful ownership from the day you start. No four-year cliff theatre. Clear vesting schedule on offer.
- 02
Use the product
Every Payroid employee gets free trade fees up to a set monthly cap. You'll be among the first cohort using what you ship.
- 03
Async by default
No daily standups. No 9am slack performance. Show up to the work you committed to and the people you work with respect your time.
- 04
Ogba office, remote-friendly
Desk in Ogba when you want company. Home, café, beach when you don't. We meet in person for shipping sprints, not for face time.
- 05
Health cover
Private HMO from day one for you and immediate family. Mental health benefits in the same plan.
- 06
Direct conversations
Founders are reachable. Decisions are explained. Bad ideas get said out loud, including the ones from the top.
Where we're thinking about hiring.
We don't publish specific roles. Job posts get stale, and we'd rather meet the person before we shape the seat. If your work sits in any of these areas, send us a note.
Engineering
Flutter (mobile), TypeScript/Node (backend), infra (cloud + on-call rotation).
Compliance & operations
Anyone who's lived inside CBN, NDPR, NFIU regulations and can translate them to product.
Customer support
24/7 ground-game lead. You're the human users meet at 2am.
Brand & motion design
Build the visual identity from the typography down. Motion design experience is a serious plus.
How to apply.
One email. No portal, no algorithmic filter, no cover letter template.
- 1
Send one link to a project, repo, design file, or write-up you'd defend in a room of skeptics.
- 2
One sentence on why you want to build this specifically, not just "a fintech."
- 3
Anything else you want us to know. Resume optional, not required.
We read every email and reply within 72 hours, even when the answer is "not right now."