Purpose of the Job:

As a Design Generalist at VALR, you will be at the forefront of shaping the brand experience and driving engagement through both marketing and product design. Your role is pivotal in designing intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and functional designs that enhance the user journey and align with VALR’s business goals. You will leverage your expertise to address a variety of design challenges, including creating compelling marketing assets and supporting product design initiatives.

What will you be doing:

• Develop and implement design strategies for new features and product enhancements, focusing on user-centered solutions that align with VALR’s objectives and enhance user satisfaction.
• Support marketing efforts by creating engaging digital assets, including GIFs, animations, and videos.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and marketing teams to ensure design feasibility and alignment with technical constraints.
• Provide design support across various teams, facilitating seamless integration of design elements into product development and marketing initiatives.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
• Implement and refine design standards and best practices to uphold high-quality and cohesive visual outputs.

What we look for in you:

• A minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Designer, preferably within the financial services industry.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating your design process and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools.
• A solid understanding of UX/UI principles and best practices.
• Experience with design platforms such as Squarespace and Sendgrid is advantageous.
• Capability to support both marketing and product teams with animation, digital design, and product design.
• Ability to interpret data and research insights to make well-informed design decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale.
• A strong team player with experience working within cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• A keen eye for detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, engineer-ready designs.
• Ability to adhere to strict deadlines and manage multiple priorities efficiently.
• Comfortability with the urgent and fast-paced nature of marketing design, and maintaining high-quality work under pressure.

What can you expect from VALR:

• Competitive salary: Get paid well to work in an exciting industry.
• Leave: Compliance with statutory leave required by individual countries, in addition to flexible leave.
• Remote work: You can work from wherever you like. However, to work effectively remotely, employees must ensure that there is secure, stable internet connectivity.
• Home office setup: A Mac laptop and a discretionary allowance to buy all the extras needed to work happily from home—all of it yours to keep after three years. Terms and Conditions will apply.
• Learning fund: An annual upskilling budget of R20,000 per employee, which will be converted to the respective currency of the employee's payment, in addition to scheduled VALR training.
• Performance bonus: When you contribute to VALR’s success, you’ll be rewarded with discretionary bonuses.
• Regular get-togethers outside of work.
• Annual company retreats.

Purpose of the Job:

As a Design Generalist at VALR, you will be at the forefront of shaping the brand experience and driving engagement through both marketing and product design. Your role is pivotal in designing intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and functional designs that enhance the user journey and align with VALR’s business goals. You will leverage your expertise to address a variety of design challenges, including creating compelling marketing assets and supporting product design initiatives.

What will you be doing:

• Develop and implement design strategies for new features and product enhancements, focusing on user-centered solutions that align with VALR’s objectives and enhance user satisfaction.
• Support marketing efforts by creating engaging digital assets, including GIFs, animations, and videos.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and marketing teams to ensure design feasibility and alignment with technical constraints.
• Provide design support across various teams, facilitating seamless integration of design elements into product development and marketing initiatives.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution and maintenance of our design system, ensuring consistency and scalability across all products.
• Implement and refine design standards and best practices to uphold high-quality and cohesive visual outputs.

What we look for in you:

• A minimum of 5 years of proven experience as a Designer, preferably within the financial services industry.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating your design process and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and prototyping tools.
• A solid understanding of UX/UI principles and best practices.
• Experience with design platforms such as Squarespace and Sendgrid is advantageous.
• Capability to support both marketing and product teams with animation, digital design, and product design.
• Ability to interpret data and research insights to make well-informed design decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale.
• A strong team player with experience working within cross-functional teams and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• A keen eye for detail and a commitment to producing high-quality, engineer-ready designs.
• Ability to adhere to strict deadlines and manage multiple priorities efficiently.
• Comfortability with the urgent and fast-paced nature of marketing design, and maintaining high-quality work under pressure.

What can you expect from VALR:

• Competitive salary: Get paid well to work in an exciting industry.
• Leave: Compliance with statutory leave required by individual countries, in addition to flexible leave.
• Remote work: You can work from wherever you like. However, to work effectively remotely, employees must ensure that there is secure, stable internet connectivity.
• Home office setup: A Mac laptop and a discretionary allowance to buy all the extras needed to work happily from home—all of it yours to keep after three years. Terms and Conditions will apply.
• Learning fund: An annual upskilling budget of R20,000 per employee, which will be converted to the respective currency of the employee's payment, in addition to scheduled VALR training.
• Performance bonus: When you contribute to VALR’s success, you’ll be rewarded with discretionary bonuses.
• Regular get-togethers outside of work.
• Annual company retreats.

Purpose of the job:

VALR is looking for seasoned backend software engineers with experience in building applications that are fast, accurate, scalable and secure to help us deliver the best experience possible to our customers.

We are seeking people with extensive knowledge of Kotlin or Java, or other JVM based languages. We’d also like to meet people with experience in other similar languages and technologies, even if we’re not actively using them, as long as they are willing to make the switch.

What will you be doing:

• Build best-in-class product features
• Create troubleshooting tools
• Implement internal processes and tooling
• Extend and improve our API
• Write easy to read, maintainable code
• Collaborate closely within a cross-functional team to build valuable product features, with a focus on scalable backend solutions
• Develop RESTful APIs and microservices
• Optimise and scale backend systems to handle high traffic volumes and ensure low-latency responses
• Participate in code reviews, automated testing, and continuous integration to maintain code quality

What we look for in you:

Skills relevant to the job include the education and/or experience, specialised training, and competencies required:

• Formal software engineering qualification not required but in-depth software engineering experience essential
• Practical experience is more relevant than a formal qualification
• 6+ years experience working in production environments
• Experience in building and integrating with REST API’s and/or Websockets
• Solid understanding of version control, containerisation and CI/CD concepts
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and/or AWS
• Experience creating troubleshooting tools
• Designing and developing integrations into databases
• Passion for cryptocurrencies and alternative financial systems
• The ability to work collaboratively in a team
• A natural inclination to help people and the ability to explain technical details simply

What can you expect from VALR:

• Competitive salary: Get paid well to work in an exciting industry.
• Leave: Compliance with statutory leave required by individual countries, in addition to flexible leave.
• Remote work: Work from wherever you like - Employees to ensure that there is secure, stable internet connectivity in order to effectively work remotely.
• Home office setup: Mac laptop and a discretionary allowance to buy all the extras needed to work happily from home - all of it yours to keep after 3 years. Terms and Conditions will apply.
• Learning fund: An annual upskilling budget of R16,000 per employee, which will be converted to the respective currency of the employee's payment, in addition to scheduled VALR training.
• Performance bonus: When you contribute to VALR’s success, you’ll be rewarded with discretionary bonuses.
• Regular get-togethers outside of work.
• Annual company retreats.