About this role
CapitalSage Technology Limited
Located in the most populous country in the most diverse continent, we have come to realise that conventional financial institutions are handicapped in creating sustainable value for the present generation and the next.
Senior/Lead Engineer — Digital Asset Infrastructure
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 7 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Engineering / Technical
- We're looking for a founding-level senior engineer to lead this build end-to-end; owning the architecture decisions everything else depends on, working directly with our founder and legal counsel as the product takes shape.
What you'll own
- Architect core digital-asset infrastructure, regulated settlement flows, KYC/KYB, custody, and compliance/reporting systems
- Make foundational calls on custody and system design that shape our licensing posture and long-term defensibility
- Design an API layer built for bank and enterprise integration from day one
- Partner directly with legal/compliance counsel so system design matches real regulatory requirements, not guesswork
- Build for a regulatory environment that's still moving, and grow the engineering team as we scale past founding stage
What we're looking for
- 7+ years in software engineering, 3+ in a senior/lead or founding-engineer role owning architecture end-to-end
- Experience building financial infrastructure: payments, settlement, ledgers, or banking-adjacent platforms
- Strong backend/cloud architecture skills (AWS or equivalent), and comfort designing for audit, compliance and access control as first-class requirements
- Working knowledge of blockchain/distributed-ledger concepts: wallets, custody, stablecoins, tokenization
- Bonus: African fintech/payments experience, or exposure to a live regulatory sandbox process (SEC, CBN, or equivalent)