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NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer What is NALA? At NALA, we’re on a mission to …

NALA | Accel Partners and YC backed | Building a Bank for Africa | Remote (preferred GMT to +3 GMT hours) | Android Developer Engineer What is NALA? At NALA, we’re on a mission to …

Yes, definitely Kenya is where M-pesa started but if you look at recent GSMA reports, over $300B was transacted in Mobile Money within Sub Saharan Africa just last year. Kenya is d…

great question, they were actually out of curiosity to learn to build something in fintech. Interviews themselves are really hard, I struggled to not ask 'leading questions' when I…

That’s right! The idea for NALA was totally shaped by these conversations. I wrote a short post about how NALA was born that provides a bit of insight into some of these interviews…

Great idea! Yes, the current process of sending money is so long... literally 39-46 digits (including waiting times) per payment. Thanks for the Angaza reference, we will work on c…

hi! You are right! The cellular protocol we use is called USSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...

Hi HN! I’m Benjamin, one of the co-founders of NALA ( https://www.nala.money ), an application that simplifies the process of making mobile payments for our users in Africa. My co-…