watu
Watu is a Nairobi-headquartered asset finance company that provides loans for mobility and connectivity assets, such as motorcycles and smartphones, to unbanked and underserved consumers and micro-entrepreneurs. It earns revenue from loan interest and fees and supports digital repayments and compliance services around the financed assets. Founded in 2015, Watu operates in eight African countries and reports issuing over 2 million loans.
Open Positions at watu
8 open positions
Senior Fullstack Engineer responsible for building and operating scalable Java/Spring Boot services and Angular features for a mobility and connectivity finance platform. The role combines backend architecture, event-driven systems, production ownership, and technical mentorship.
Senior Backend Engineer building and evolving Java/Spring Boot services for a large-scale fintech platform across Africa and Latin America. The role combines hands-on backend development with architectural ownership, distributed-systems design, and technical leadership within a squad.
Senior QA Engineer embedded in a product squad, owning test strategy, automation, performance testing, and quality gates for complex and high-risk domains. The role combines hands-on technical testing with mentoring and chapter-wide QA initiatives.
Lead the technical direction of Watu’s onboarding engineering squad, owning architecture, releases, partner governance, and KYC and anti-fraud integrations. This hands-on leadership role combines deep software engineering with light people management across backend, frontend/mobile, and QA engineers.
Lead QA strategy across a fintech engineering function while remaining embedded as a hands-on QA engineer in one squad. You will build reliable automated testing practices, define quality standards, and guide QA consistency across multiple teams.
QA Chapter Lead combining hands-on embedded QA engineering with cross-squad ownership of testing standards, automation frameworks, and quality strategy. The role leads QA practice across four squads without direct people-management responsibility.
QA Automation Engineer responsible for building and maintaining automated tests that ensure the quality, reliability, and usability of software systems. The role focuses on functional, regression, API, UI, and exploratory testing while collaborating with development teams.
The Senior QA Automation Engineer will own automated testing strategy and execution, building scalable Playwright frameworks and validating application quality across UI, APIs, backend processes, and data. The role also mentors junior QA engineers and drives improvements to testing efficiency and software reliability.