Vacancies at Tala (formerly InVenture)

The Android Engineer will act as a subject matter expert in Android, Kotlin, Rx, Retrofit/OkHttp, Dagger, architectural patterns MVVM and MVP, CLEAN design including repos and use cases, modularization, unit testing and integration testing. The successful candidate will often onboard new contractors, provide pairing, training and leadership to ensure the new hires come up to speed efficiently and correctly. The Android Engineer will also contribute to the product features for the area in which they are the expert.

What You'll Do

• Act as an “anchor” position on the Android full time staff.
• Act as the subject matter expert on not only Android in general, but also a specific slice of the Tala infrastructure (which will rotate over time).
• “Anchor” the subject matter knowledge and allow other staff and/or contractors to seamlessly transition into and out of the group.
• Have product feature responsibilities (must deliver features) plus intra-group responsibilities (lead, train, PR review, participate in the Android Guild, etc).

What You'll Require

• 5+ years of experience, 4+ years of Android, 3+ years of Kotlin.
• 2+ apps in the Google Play store.
• Android, Kotlin, Rx, Retrofit/OkHttp, Dagger, architectural patterns MVVM and MVP, CLEAN design including repos and use cases, modularization, unit testing and integration testing.
• Jetpack Compose, MVVM, Jetpack navigation and Coroutine Flows.

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The Senior DevOps Engineer (DE) is responsible for the health of our infrastructure. As an expert, DE delivers solutions that provide automated configuration and scaling of our architecture. As a CI/CD advocate DE proposes and implements tools that automate and streamline our development and deployment processes, enforce industry standards and best practices, increase effectiveness of Tala’s team members, and reduce risks of human errors.

This is an individual contributor role within Tala’s Engineering track. You will report to the Engineering Manager and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tala teams across the globe.

What You'll Do

• Build and deploy monitoring and alerting systems across Tala’s entire infrastructure
• Complete migration to CI/CD deployment model
• Support and collaborate with cross functional teams (Product, Data, Credit, and Business Development) to ship scalable software solutions
• Support integration projects with 3rd party services (Payment Rails, SMS/Email, KYC, Analytics, etc.)
• Build, maintain, and own InfoSec compliance efforts by implementing and enforcing appropriate processes and standards across the organisation
• Maintain, review, propose and implement improvements to existing infrastructure, tools and processes

What You'll Need

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps processes and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, PagerDuty, NewRelic, Splunk, Chef, Puppet)
• Demonstrated ability for building, automating and scaling production level environments with high availability, reliability, security and throughput
• Expert knowledge in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, ElasticCache, VPC, VPN, EMR, CloudDeploy, Kinesis, Redshift)
• Preferred BS Degree in Computer Science and/or Math or equivalent skills

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We are looking for a Senior Analyst Global Reconciliation to join the Global Accounting Team of Tala. This person will support the Global Reconciliation Program across all regions, ensuring the reliability of Tala’s data through reconciliation with third party records. The candidate will drive efforts in determining discrepancies, and coordinate with the respective market partners to investigate and resolve, with the collaboration of all relevant stakeholders. The Global Reconciliation Program is an essential part of our day to day business operations as it ensures that all of our transactional data recorded in our systems are accurate and complete and matches properly the third party statements together with Tala’s internal accounting system. The candidate should feel comfortable working with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and be comfortable working with high volumes of data and reports, participating actively in the definition of corrective actions in the spirit of resolving the identified discrepancies.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Accounting, Data, Product, and Engineering to build automated reconciliation process that will produce exception reports that can be relied upon to run auto adjustments
• Prepare, produce, and validate daily, weekly, and monthly transaction-level reconciliations and reports to ensure real-time detection of data anomalies and other risk event issues reports.
• Maintain external data files (Rails transaction statements) and input values into various reports in an efficient manner
• Support the Finance team in monthly revenue recognition preparation and diving into inquiries on retro data changes in Accounting reports

Who You Are

• Loves data – will dig deep to understand the intricacies of a data set
• Can manage discovery and reporting projects from end to end
• Have a strong curiosity around what makes a business tick
• Know how to translate questions into a set of metrics, requirements, and/or reporting

What You’ll Need

• 3- 4 years of relevant experience Financial analytics, Reconciliations
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics or related fields
• Strong proficiency in Excel required, Knowledge of and experience with reporting and data visualization packages (Lookr, Tableau, Amplitude), databases (SQL etc), programming (SQL, XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
• Statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R, etc.) a plus but not required
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence in a dynamic, cross-functional environment; customer-focused, with strong history of driving results, managing complexity and dealing with ambiguity
• Basic understanding of core accounting concept