Yoco was founded in 2015, and has since processed over R100 billion in digital payments for over 400, 000 businesses in South Africa. Were breaking down barriers and unlocking economic opportunities that enable people to thrive.
We have over 330 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all with a bias for boldness, and a passion for simple, progressive solutions. We believe in uniting different people to solve hard problems together.
Our mission of making society more equal takes a variety of people, with different backgrounds and points of view, so we can keep building solutions that work for and include everyone.
Yoco is growing, and as we grow we have compelling challenges ahead of us.
Growing means were enabling more self-employed people and businesses to thrive every day. It also means that ambitious problem-solvers with big ideas are challenged, stimulated and will thrive at Yoco.
We dont stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and each other. Were constantly evolving and were doing it fast.
Grow With Us.
About The Data Team
At Yoco, we invest in Data teams and tools, intentionally embedding them in everything we do. Were data-driven, and we address questions that matter. For us, data is so much more than historical reporting, it determines what well do next.
Were growing fast, and so is the volume of data we collect an ever-expanding scope for knowledge and creativity. Explore with us.
About The Role
Youll be a Analytics Engineer in the Analytics Engineering team, part of the broader Data team at Yoco.
As an Analytics Engineer, youll work cross-functionally with the teams across the organization to deeply understand requirements, design data models, and build up our well-documented semantic layer. Your focus will be on architecting robust data models, improving data transformation for comprehensive analysis, and building the foundation that enables advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making across the company.
What You Will Be Doing
- Be a company-wide data representative and contribute to analytics best practices and processes.
- Full stack analytics engineering development, building models to consume, transform, and expose data to stakeholders and production systems
- Drive a culture of experimental design, testing agenda, and best practices
- Contribute to the culture of Yocos data team by influencing processes, tools, and systems that will allow us to make better decisions in a scalable way
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to develop product roadmaps and measure success
- Work closely with data engineering teams to capture, move, store, and transform raw data into highly actionable insights, and partner with business teams to turn those insights into action
- Promote data literacy in the company.
- Strong knowledge of SQL (preferably Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery) and how to write efficient SQL queries
- Familiarity with BI tools (preferably Looker, Mode, Tableau or equivalent) and experience distributing data insights via reports and dashboards
- Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, constantly improving, start-up environment that focuses on solving problems with iterative technical solutions
- Experience with the modern data stack (Fivetran / Segment / BigQuery / dbt / Looker / Metabase or equivalents)
- Strong perspective on analytics engineering development cycle (data modelling, version control, documentation + testing, best practices for codebase development)
- Experience within the payments and financial technology space
Were looking for people who want to grow. And as Yoco grows we hope they stay with us, long term.
Building things that make society more equal is a daunting task. And its not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and teammates. We start over, we constantly evolve and we do it fast. We know that its just the right kind of meaningful madness for our kind of visionary human.
So, who are you? Youre someone who resonates with our mission, but also our values, when it comes to how we work.
Youre a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. Youre bright and grounded, experimental and bold. You play open cards and get stuck in. Youre not afraid of change. You close the loop.
At Yoco, we love to laugh, cherish each others quirks, and be authentic.
Find Out More About Who We Are Here.
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