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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About Cellulant:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https://cellulant.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Cellulant</span></a> is Africa’s leading payments company, providing seamless, secure and innovative solutions that empower businesses, banks, and global brands to thrive in a fast-changing global economy. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><br></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">With a presence in over </span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold\">24 countries and 200+ payment methods</span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">, including cards, bank transfers</span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">, and mobile money</span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">, our </span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold\">single API payment platform, Tingg</span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">, simplifies collections, disbursements, and reconciliations. It processes over </span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: bold\">4.5 million transactions daily </span><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">for market leaders </span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">across</span><br><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">sectors such as</span><br><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. </span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\">By simplifying how people pay and get paid, we drive trust, commerce and scale – and connect companies to their ambitions.</span><br><span style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34)\"> </span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Our Story:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Across Africa, payments are more than transactions. They are gateways to prosperity, connecting people, businesses and communities to opportunities and growth.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">From enabling a logistics company in Lusaka to pay suppliers across borders, to enabling a hospitality brand in Lagos to scale effortlessly, to supporting an airline in Nairobi to reconcile payments from multiple platforms, Cellulant is the bridge that makes it all possible. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Through trusted technology and customer-centric innovation, we build connections that inspire progress, strengthen economies and transform payments into a tool for progress.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Since our founding in 2003, we've continuously adapted and grown, leveraging our experiences to simplify payments for businesses. We are driven by an unshakable belief that seamless people-centred payments are the key to unlocking prosperity. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Today, Cellulant powers online and offline payment processing, allowing businesses to collect payments, send payouts, and accelerate business growth.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Our Mission: </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">To deliver seamless, secure and innovative payment solutions for businesses. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Our Vision:</span> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">To create a connected world where businesses move money as easily as they share ideas.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Role Overview: </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">We are hiring a Principal: AI &amp; Product Engineer to lead the development and deployment of AI-driven product experiences across our B2B payments platform, with an initial focus on reconciliation and merchant onboarding workflows. This role is responsible for building production-grade AI features leveraging LLMs, embeddings, agent orchestration frameworks, and secure cloud-native architectures.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The role begins as a hands-on Principal IC focused on delivering AI features, and evolves into the founding engineer and lead for our internal AI Platform, including prompt gateways, vector search infrastructure, agent orchestration, and reusable AI APIs for all product squads.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">This is a high-impact role with aggressive timelines—PoC delivery in 45 days and first production AI feature at day 90. The ideal candidate blends deep enterprise engineering experience, cloud native development expertise with strong AI systems intuition and a solid understanding of fintech/payments workflows.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">What You'll do:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">1. Deliver AI Features for Reconciliation &amp; Onboarding (Phase 1 Priority)</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Build semi-autonomous AI agents to automate reconciliation workflows, including:</span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Payment method and bank reports/ statement ingestion</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Transaction matching</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Discrepancy analysis</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Exception explanation and routing</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Report generation</span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop AI-assisted KYB/KYC extraction tools to accelerate onboarding:</span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Document parsing (IDs, certificates, statements).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Entity extraction &amp; validation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Risk flag identification.</span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Build necessary API interfaces and Integrate AI services into existing/new microservices and event-driven pipelines.<br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">2. AI Engineering, LLM Integration &amp; Agent Orchestration</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Integrate with multiple LLM providers through a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">hybrid model strategy</span> (commercial APIs + open-source models).</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Implement prompt engineering, safety guardrails, and mechanisms to mitigate hallucinations during workflow execution.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Build and integrate semi-autonomous agents using LangGraph or similar frameworks.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Design high-quality APIs, SDKs, and internal tooling to allow product squads to embed AI seamlessly.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Work with vector databases (PGVector, Pinecone, Weaviate—nice to have) for retrieval augmentation, semantic search, and agent memory.<br><br></span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">3. Cloud-Native &amp; Enterprise Engineering Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Deploy cloud-native AI services on AWS using Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and secure infra patterns.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Build scalable backend services using Spring Boot and event-driven flows via Kafka/RabbitMQ.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Implement observability for AI systems (tracing, cost monitoring, latency, and prompt logs).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ensure strict compliance with:</span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">PCI DSS (tokenization boundaries, card-data safety).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">GDPR / data privacy</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Sensitive document handling for KYC/KYB and bank/payment method statements.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Auditability and traceability for all AI outputs</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Model governance &amp; safe operations</span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">4. Cross-Functional Collaboration &amp; Product Influence</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Partner with Product, Data Engineering, Finance Ops, Risk Ops, and Compliance to automate high-impact workflows.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Translate complex business processes into AI-driven workflows with clear, measurable outcomes.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Partner with Engineering and Platform teams to design, evolve and build out our next-gen payment architecture ensuring scalability, and AI integration ready design from the get go.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Contribute (but not own) data ingestion pipelines needed for AI agents (PDF/CSV parsing, structured extraction e.t.c).</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">5. AI Platform Evolution (Phase 2 Priority)</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">After demonstrating initial business value:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Design and lead the build-out of our internal <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">AI Platform,</span> including:</span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">AI gateway for model routing</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Prompt library &amp; prompt evaluation tooling</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Retrieval pipelines &amp; vector stores</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Agent orchestration frameworks</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Enterprise-grade governance and safety controls.</span></li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; 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By automating reconciliation, onboarding, exception handling, intelligent payment routing e.t.c, this role directly accelerates merchant activation, reduces operational load, strengthens compliance, and unlocks faster payment scaling.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">This Principal AI &amp; Product Engineer will be the architect, builder, and future leader<br>of our AI product engineering and automation strategy, laying the foundation for the world-class AI platform that will power the next phase of Cellulant’s growth.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Why Work for Us?</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">At Cellulant, we are more than a payments company: we are bridge-builders. We believe that by simplifying the way people pay and get paid, we are connecting companies to their ambitions, people to opportunities, and Africa to the global economy. Our work goes beyond payments—it’s about what people, businesses, and communities can do when the movement of money becomes more dependable, seamless, and secure. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Some exciting things about us...</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We have an extensive footprint: </span>We have an office presence in 10 countries, and our products serve 24 countries across Africa, with a global workforce of about 300 employees. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We believe innovation is at the heart of Fintech:</span> Thousands of market leaders and top enterprises trust our technology to power their payments. Our customers are in various sectors, including financial services, travel and hospitality, telecom, e-commerce, remittance companies, SaaS, and the gig economy. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We support a diverse and inclusive workforce:</span> We focus on the growth and development of our employees through well-developed, individualised career paths, ensuring you reach your full potential in a supportive and delivery-oriented environment. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We put our employees first:</span> At Cellulant, your contribution is rewarded competitively. We use clear career levels and role titles, and benchmark our base pay against data and a well-established internal process. Your actual salary will reflect your experience, skills, impact and the scope of the role, as well as our business needs and prevailing market conditions. We also offer generous personal time off, and medical and life insurance benefits (markets permitting).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We seek collaborative builders: </span>At Cellulant, we believe that great ideas happen when we come together. Therefore, we nurture a collaborative work environment that challenges, engages, and empowers each person to contribute to the growth and success of the business. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">We solve Africa's digital economy:</span> We’re solving payment challenges on the continent to create opportunities and accelerate economic growth for all of Africa.</span></li>\n</ul>",
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