Recruitment at Sparkle Nigeria

Sparkle Nigeria is a bank and then more, licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). We are what most people would refer to as a digital bank. We offer financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Nigeria

About the Role

• As a Product Manager, you must be passionate about building products that customers love. You should be excited about working within 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.
• You’d need to be highly analytical, have a good understanding of product management frameworks and must be hungry for new challenges.
• Right away, you’d be working on different tasks and problems including identifying new product opportunities, creating product metrics, conducting user research and building design flows with our technology team.

Responsibilities
A day in the life of a PM looks like this:

• Coordination: You will be involved in all phases of the product life cycle, from planning to release. You will work with the Senior Technical PM with keeping track of deadlines and making sure everything is running smoothly between the other teams (design, technology, QA, Developers), and with the rest of the stakeholders (management, business development, customer experience, marketing, etc.).
• Research & Market Intelligence: You will take part in gathering data on the competitor landscape, our users and staying up to date on banking and finance trends in the technology space.
• Data Analytics: You will perform recurrent analysis on the usage of the product and extract key insights for the improvement of the product. You’ll also be responsible for analysing important customer data points as well as information about our competitors.
• Reporting: You’ll be required to present key findings on various product success KPIs including findings on defects, improvements, status updates and risk management.
• Documentation: You will document user stories and use cases for new features or enhancements in the product. You will also support the documentation of product release notes for both internal and external communication.
• Information Hub: To perform well in this role, you’d need be a sponge; soaking up bits of information about our core business, products and features. You’d need to act as a source of all things related to our products and our business to be able to provide information when and where needed across multifunctional teams to help them make key decisions that may impact overall product and business goals.

About You

• You have four to five years’ experience in product management or in a similar role around software development and information technology. We’d ideally want someone who had taken a previous course understanding Product/Project/QA/ Risk Assessment/Agile and/or Software Development methodologies.
• You are a driven, ambitious individual who’s excited about working in Product Management and looking to build their career at an exciting very-fast-growing banking startup.
• You’re highly research oriented and able to collect and analyse user feedback and useful product data.
• You have strong attention to detail and can deliver effectively against tight deadlines.
• You’re friendly and able to work well with others: This role is highly collaborative, and we’d prefer someone who is able to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• You’re great at using Product & Project Management Tools including any of the following: Jira, Trello, Clubhouse (now shortcut), Asana, ClickUp, Aha!, Microsoft Planner, Whiteboard and/or Kanban Boards.
• You’re familiar with any of these design tools including Figma, Invision, Sketch & Adobe XD to conduct reviews and give constructive feedback to the design team.
• You’ve been told you’re a highly creative person and have the ability to solve complex problems.

Perks of Working With Us

• Career advancement opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Sparkling Rewards and Recognitions
• Great team and start-up spirit in an innovative culture
• Great work environment, relaxed, comfortable work areas and recharge areas.
• On the job training and personal development opportunities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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

Job Title: Senior Laravel Developer

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time

Requirement

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time
Job Level: Senior (Level 3 >)

About the Role

• We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be a champion for this within the organization.
• The DevOps Engineer believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• The ideal candidate can think long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation.

Responsibilities
What you will be doing:

• Management of internal infrastructure
• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the Technology team
• Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
• Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of the Technology team and ensure an efficient release pipeline
• Support and collaborate with other Developers building on top of the platform
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Sparkle’s internal systems
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches

Requirements
Do Apply If you have:

• At least 5 years of software development experience
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Azure Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Solid written and verbal communication
• Experience with system automation
• Experience with distributed systems

This role isn’t for you if:

• You’re not open to the pressures of building at a startup – For this role, we need someone who’s a self-starter and extremely passionate about innovating and building new products in a fast paced – high pressured environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

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