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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><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">sectors such as </span><span style=\"color: rgb(26, 26, 46)\">Airlines, Telecoms, E-commerce, Ride-Hailing, Retail, and Remittances. </span><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><br></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><br></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><br></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><br></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 seeking a <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Senior</span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Software Engineer: Full-stack</span> with a strong command of modern front-end and back-end technologies, excellent code review practices, and a passion for collaboration and mentorship. In this role, you will contribute to the delivery of high-quality user interfaces with a scalable backend, provide technical leadership, and help elevate the performance of the engineering team through deep technical contributions and peer support.</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=\"color: rgb(0, 158, 218); font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Code Quality &amp; Technical Excellence</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Design and implement scalable, user-friendly full-stack applications.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develop efficient, lock-free SQL queries for optimal data storage, retrieval, and updates.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Optimize application performance to achieve fast loading times.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Inter, sans-serif; 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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. 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