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Relay

Work that moves money. And moves people.

Who we are, how we work, and why it matters.

Financial infrastructure is a civil rights issue.

That's not a marketing line. It's why we exist.

The Origin

2019

Founders Amara Diallo and Jin Park leave Stripe after witnessing payment failures in West Africa

2020

First API live in Nigeria

2022

Series B closes at $44M

2024

140M transactions processed annually

"Every failed transaction is a real person who didn't get paid today."

— Amara Diallo, Co-founder & CEO

How We Work

Move fast, repair fast

We ship weekly and fix same-day

Own the outcome

No one says "that's not my job"

Disagree loudly, commit fully

Debate is expected, alignment is required

Build for the user you haven't met yet

Every feature is someone's financial lifeline

"

On day 3, I noticed our Nigeria reconciliation was off by $0.03. My manager said: fix it or find who can. I fixed it.

Priya S.

Software Engineer, joined 2023

Move Fast, Repair Fast

Thursday 11pm

Payment gateway timeout in Kenya affects 3,200 merchants

Friday 8am

Fix deployed, post-mortem published, affected merchants emailed

9 hours

Growth at Relay

Onboarding

90-day integration plan, paired with a senior

Early

Own a surface within 6 months

Growth

Lead a cross-functional project

Leadership

Choose IC or management track at 18 months

Learning Philosophy

How we learn

  • Weekly engineering demo days
  • $3K annual learning budget
  • Rotation program across payment corridors
  • Failure retrospectives published internally

What we don't do

  • × Mandatory annual compliance theater
  • × 360 reviews that go nowhere
  • × Learning for learning's sake

We'll be honest.

The work is genuinely hard and the stakes are real — a bug is someone's payroll

We're 190 people, which means you will need to build the process, not follow it

We operate across 11 time zones and async communication is a skill you will need to develop

The Offer

Category What You Get
Compensation 75th-percentile base + equity refresh at 2 years + annual bonus up to 15%
Benefits Full medical/dental/vision globally, $500/mo remote stipend, 5 weeks PTO + local holidays
Development $3K learning budget, conference attendance funded, internal mobility encouraged
Belonging 7 employee resource groups, biannual company retreat, "no-meeting Fridays"

Where We Work

Lagos

42 people

HQ for West Africa ops

Nairobi

28 people

East Africa engineering hub

Jakarta

34 people

Southeast Asia expansion

London

22 people

Compliance & partnerships

São Paulo

18 people

Latin America growth

San Francisco

46 people

Global HQ & product

If this sounds like your kind of work, we want to hear from you.

relay.finance/careers

18 open roles

across engineering, product, and partnerships