Fintech & Payments · Lagos, Nigeria
Paystack
Modern online and offline payments for African businesses
About Paystack
Paystack helps businesses in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya accept payments from customers anywhere in the world. Its developer-friendly APIs, hosted checkout and invoicing tools are widely used by startups, established retailers and non-profits.
Acquired by Stripe in 2020, Paystack continues to operate as a distinct brand with its own product and engineering organisation, known for design quality, documentation standards and a small, senior team.
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Why work here
Paystack is known for craft: careful writing, well-designed internal tools and unusually high documentation standards. Engineers and designers who care about detail tend to thrive here.
Benefits & perks
- Health insurance
- Learning stipend
- Home office budget
Culture signals
- Craft
- Writing culture
- Design-led
Who you'd work with (1)
- Shola AkinladeCo-founder & CEO
Salaries (3 roles)
23 data points, annual base pay
Senior Software Engineer
senior · Lagos · remote · 6 reports
$84,000
$66,000 to $105,000
Software Engineer
mid · Lagos · remote · 10 reports
$54,000
$40,000 to $68,000
Support Engineer
junior · Lagos · remote · 7 reports
$21,000
$15,000 to $27,000
Reviews (1)
5.0 average from 1 review
- Aug 2026
Best engineering team I have worked with
Senior Software Engineer · Current employee · Lagos, Nigeria
High trust, remote first, and unusually strong code review culture.
- Pros
- Remote first, great mentorship, generous leave
- Cons
- Hiring bar makes teams small, on-call can be busy
Tech stack
- Ruby
- TypeScript
- React
- PostgreSQL
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