Hiring: Product Engineer (Frontend) at Tuma
Location: Nairobi, Kenya · On-site
Type: Full-time
Compensation: KES 120,000 – 150,000 (monthly gross)
About Tuma Tuma is building the next generation of African payment
infrastructure. Our products include: Cross-border remittance Merchant
acquiring Payment Gateway Wallets APIs QR Payments SoftPOS Merchant Portal
Business Banking integrati…
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Role overview
About Tuma
Tuma is building the next generation of African payment
infrastructure.
Our products include:
- Cross-border
remittance
- Merchant
acquiring
- Payment
Gateway
- Wallets
- APIs
- QR
Payments
- SoftPOS
- Merchant
Portal
- Business
Banking integrations
We believe engineers should help shape products—not just
build tickets.
Role Overview
We're looking for a Product Engineer who combines strong
React engineering skills with excellent product thinking.
You will work directly with Product, Design and Backend
Engineering to design and build customer experiences across web and mobile
payment products.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving customer
problems as much as writing code.
Responsibilities
Product Development
Build customer-facing products including:
- Merchant
Portal
- Consumer
Wallet
- Payment
Gateway
- Admin
Portal
- Dashboard
- Settlement
Portal
- QR
Payments
- SoftPOS
Required Skills
3+ years building production web applications.
Strong experience with:
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- TailwindCSS
Experience consuming APIs.
Comfort working with Java backend teams.
Experience using:
- Git
- Figma
- Jira
- Postman
Product Skills
Ability to:
- Understand
user problems
- Translate
business requirements
- Improve
user experience
- Prototype
ideas
- Think
commercially
- Prioritise
features
Nice to Have
Experience in:
- Payments
- Banking
- Fintech
- Wallets
- Merchant
products
- QR
Payments
- POS
- Cross-border
payments
Knowledge of:
- Product
Management
- Analytics
- SQL
- Firebase
- PostHog
- AI-assisted
development
Success Measures
Within your first six months you will:
- Ship
production-ready payment experiences.
- Improve
customer onboarding.
- Increase
conversion across key journeys.
- Improve
merchant usability.
- Build
reusable UI components.
- Collaborate
effectively with Java backend engineers.
- Contribute
meaningfully to product decisions.
- Help
shape the future of Tuma's payment platform.
At Tuma, Product Engineers don't simply implement
features—they help decide what should be built, why it matters, and how it
creates value for customers.