Careers

Build the rails African trade has been waiting for.

Trade between African countries is throttled by a finance gap measured in the hundreds of billions. We are closing it — with real engineering, real credit discipline, and real regulatory rigour. Come build it with us.

Accra HQ · Hybrid & remote roles

How we work

What you'd be signing up for

A small team holding a bank-grade bar. These are the principles we actually hire and build against.

Financial correctness over convenience

Every cedi is double-entry, idempotent and reconciled. We hold the money paths to a stricter bar than anything else, because a rounding error here is someone’s livelihood.

Built from Accra, for the continent

We are deliberately close to the AfCFTA Secretariat and Bank of Ghana. Local context is not a footnote — it is the product.

Inclusion is an engineering constraint

USSD for feature phones, 3G-first performance, French for UEMOA. If a trader is excluded, the design has failed — not the trader.

Open roles

5 positions open

Grouped by team. Don't see your exact role but think you'd move the mission? Write to us anyway.

Underwriting

  • Senior Credit & Risk Analyst

    Accra, Ghana · Hybrid · Full-time · Senior · Competitive + equity

    Own the credit models that decide which SME traders get financed. Turn mobile-money and trade data into explainable risk scores across our Ghana, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire corridors.

    Apply

Engineering

  • Staff Backend Engineer, Settlement

    Accra, Ghana · Hybrid · Full-time · Staff · Competitive + equity

    Build the ledger and settlement engine that moves money across borders over PAPSS and mobile money — correct to the minor unit, reconciled daily, auditable forever.

    Apply

Growth

  • Corridor Growth Lead — Nigeria

    Lagos, Nigeria · On-site · Full-time · Lead · Competitive + equity

    Launch the Ghana↔Nigeria corridor. Own trader acquisition, partnerships and on-the-ground trust-building in one of Africa’s largest trade markets.

    Apply

Compliance

  • Compliance Officer (AML/CFT)

    Accra, Ghana · On-site · Full-time · Mid–Senior

    Run the AML/KYC programme that keeps every trader and counterparty verified and every transaction monitored — the trust layer beneath a regulated financial product.

    Apply

Design

  • Product Designer

    Remote (West Africa) · Remote · Full-time · Mid–Senior

    Design financial products that a market trader on a phone and a treasury analyst on a desktop both trust instantly — across low-bandwidth, multilingual, high-stakes contexts.

    Apply
Why it matters

The scale of the problem

$81B
Africa's annual trade-finance gap (Afreximbank)
54
AfCFTA member states, one emerging market
~40%
of SME trade-finance requests rejected
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Read how the product actually works, or reach the team directly.

About Sankofa Trade