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Mobile Wallet Engineer

The Role

As the Director of Engineering, you will lead product decisions, development, and delivery across

Leaf, with an eye to overall business goals. You will drive the technical vision for Leaf and lead the

development team to make it happen. You will use data and analytics insights to create a technical

roadmap and articulate your business decisions. You will collaborate closely with the growth team,

and work directly with the technical team and customer support team to deliver value to customers.

Responsibilities:

Translate business vision into technical requirements and then tasks, allocate to the development team, oversee, and participate in product development and testing to make sure enhancements align with the overall vision.
Manage a small, in-house developer team with front-end and back-end experience
Support new partner integrations and plan new integrations, interfacing with external business partners
Troubleshoot new integrations and communicate with external product teams
Oversee app updates, including app store listing
Develop a deep understanding of the customer
Write specifications outlining problems & amp; objectives, key elements of the feature, decision rationales, and metrics
Partner with design, engineering, and other stakeholders to prioritize, build and deploy new features
Support the build-out of new consumer products

Must Haves:

5+ years of product management experience or equivalent, software engineering or product design experience
Full-stack experience with a preference for MongoDB, Node.js, Flutter, AWS, microservices, and MVC architectural patterns
Experience building consumer-facing financial services products with an emphasis on mobile experiences across Africa
Blockchain and Web 3 experience, experience with Stellar preferred
Experience building, launching, and managing products at scale
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent analytical skills and experience building analytics tools from raw data
Deep care for the customer, proactive, outcome-oriented, passionate about financial inclusion
Openness to global travel as needed

Benefits:

Competitive salary based on experience
High potential for growth
Flexible WFH policy
Great team and the chance to work with people all over the world

About Leaf

Leaf Global Fintech is an award-winning startup recently acquired by IDT Corporation, a global

provider of fintech, money transfer, and communication services headquartered in Newark, NJ. Leaf

provides cross-border, digital financial services on a mobile device—no smartphone required. With

Leaf, customers can store money, send, receive, exchange, and pay domestically and across

borders. The Leaf Wallet is available for smartphones and non-smartphones through USSD, Google

Play, and the App Store. Leaf is live in East Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya) and is quickly expanding

globally. Leaf is a Techstars company that has won awards from the United Nations, The Vatican,

the US National Science Foundation, Fast Company, and was recently named to the Inclusive Fintech

50.

About The Team

The Leaf team is passionate about financial inclusion and using best-in-class technology in

innovative ways. The team is dispersed across East Africa (Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia) and

the United States. We operate as a startup with the benefit of a large corporation behind us. We are

looking for similarly minded, motivated, talented individuals to join our team and tackle major

challenges around the world.

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Private

INDUSTRY

Telecommunications Services

TEAM SIZE

1001-5000

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Newark, NJ

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