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Yellow Card App

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51 - 200 employees

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

💰 $40M Series B on 2022-09

Fintech • Payments • Finance

Yellow Card App is a pan-African fintech company operating in 20 countries. It is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin on-ramp/off-ramp on the African continent, offering secure and cost-effective solutions for businesses to buy and sell Stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and PYUSD using local currency. The platform facilitates borderless transactions and business payments through their Payments API and Widget, targeting businesses of all sizes. Yellow Card ensures secure and seamless financial operations across Africa with an emphasis on digital assets and mobile money integration.

📋 Description

• Act as the final technical reviewer for complex setups, including global traffic routing and EKS scaling. • Architect robust solutions to ensure strict adherence to our 99.99% System Uptime Executive OKR. • Identify underlying root causes for critical production incidents and provide permanent fixes. • Lead service capacity planning, demand forecasting, and system tuning for scalability. • Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical systems to ensure SLAs are met. • Establish trust with senior leaders by aligning technical priorities with business goals. • Partner with SecOps to ensure our global infrastructure meets rigorous security standards.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on technical experience with large-scale production environments and infrastructure. • 2+ years of experience leading site reliability engineers or software developers building customer-facing applications. • In-depth knowledge of AWS architecture (Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EKS, and S3). • Strong grasp of Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD principles (GitHub Actions). • Proven ability to learn and master new technologies on the fly. • Solid understanding of performance monitoring tools and Linux operating systems. • Proven, deep experience managing and securing Kubernetes (EKS) at scale is a significant advantage. • Strong grasp of complex networking concepts required for global multi-region deployments and secure B2B integrations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote Work: Flexible, fully remote work setting. • Global Impact: Be part of a team shaping the future of global FinTech and stablecoin accessibility. • Autonomy: Direct ownership over complex projects, from the initial architectural design to global production delivery. • Growth: Continuous opportunities to upskill and explore cutting-edge tech like AI integrations. • Balance: On-call rotations designed with a focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.