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Engineering at Paystack

Every day, millions of businesses across Africa connect with customers through Paystack. Our engineering team builds simple, powerful tools to make this possible and ensure our systems perform reliably. We’d love for you to be a part of this engine!

Building solutions at scale

Millions of people across Africa rely on Paystack’s systems to send and receive payments, processing millions of dollars for thousands of businesses across the continent. Our engineers are continually building new, reliable systems to make this process even more efficient.

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Join a team of kind and talented domain experts

Engineers at Paystack are deep domain experts simplifying payments in Africa. Here are a few of them!

“There’s no box that you’re in at Paystack. You can own any project or idea.”

Jocelyn Van Heerde
Engineering, Paystack
Jocelyn is a Security Engineer at Paystack, specializing in vulnerability management and application security. She works with the team responsible for maintaining the security of Paystack's payment infrastructure.

“At Paystack, everyone, no matter their level, contributes to solving problems.”

Medard Ilunga
Engineering, Paystack
Medard is a Principal Engineer with Paystack’s expansion pillar, responsible for expanding Paystack’s payment infrastructure across Africa. His role involves adapting the payment systems to fit the local markets of various countries while ensuring the infrastructure is resilient enough to last and scale over time.

“It's a positive environment where kindness shines through everyone”

Shabih Fatima
Engineering, Paystack
Shabih is a DevOps Engineer on Paystack’s Infrastructure and Security team. She collaborates with her team to manage Paystack’s AWS cloud infrastructure and develops automation tools to streamline processes for engineers. As a site reliability engineer, she ensures system reliability, maximizes uptime, and strengthens network security.

“Paystack gives you the confidence to solve real-life problems at scale.”

Patrick Onokwai
Engineering, Paystack
Patrick is a Technical Lead at Paystack, working with the platform operations team to deliver scalable solutions across Paystack’s markets. His role involves promoting technical excellence and ensuring the seamless performance of the infrastructure that powers Paystack’s payment ecosystem.

“Working at Paystack has shown me that I can tackle big challenges.”

Nana Hawau Adeku
Engineering, Paystack
Nana is a Senior Backend Engineer at Paystack, specializing in building and managing the payment channels that power Paystack’s ecosystem, including cards, bank transfers, and other integrations. Her role involves writing and reviewing technical specifications, building products, and ensuring seamless functionality across payment systems.

“There’s care and thoughtfulness in how things are built.”

Ifeoluwa Sobogun
Engineering, Paystack
Ife is a Technical Lead on Paystack’s Processing Team, responsible for ensuring the reliability and optimization of the systems that power payment processing across Paystack’s ecosystem. Ife’s role ensures that payment channels and processors operate seamlessly while ensuring collaboration to build high-quality solutions.

Our ethos

These are the core ideas that drive us as an engineering team and define everything we do.

Ethos Icons Empathy

Empathy

Take your time to understand the experiences of your colleagues. Respect everyone, and watch them all do same for you!

Ethos Icons Ownership

Ownership

Take responsibility for the projects you’re working on. Carry everyone along, and try your best to drive your team to success.

Ethos Icons Communication

Communication

Give updates, ask questions, and give feedback often - clearly, and simply.

Ethos Icons Humility

Humility

Be modest - learn and seek feedback from others, ask questions often, and share your learnings with everyone!

Ethos Icons Simplicity

Simplicity

Refine your ideas, and break them down to the simplest they can possibly be.

Ethos Icons Ship Fast Learn Faster

Ship fast. Learn faster

Think it, build it, push it, and then learn fast from the feedback to improve yourself and the product.

Peek inside Paystack engineering

As we build and scale, we’re always learning. Along the way, we love sharing stories, lessons, and insights from our engineering team.

Discover some of them below.

Planning a roadmap for developer experience at Paystack

What we’ve learned about developer preferences and communities in Africa, and how it’s shaping our approach to improving developer experience

Tolulope Kalejaiye
Tolulope Kalejaiye
Growth, Paystack

How Paystack protects your business from cyber fraud

A guide to Paystack’s security features and best practices for fraud prevention.

David Samson
David Samson
Growth, Paystack
Omoruyi Ihiere
Omoruyi Ihiere
Engineering, Paystack

Building the Angular Paystack Library

How Ekene Ashinze built a key open source library for Angular developers

Tolulope Kalejaiye
Tolulope Kalejaiye
Growth, Paystack