What's on your learning Stack + Fintech Domination of Nigerian Tech
How do you move up the ladder from your current pay-grade?
A lot of times developers find it hard to know what to learn next, to be able to call themselves an intermediate, advance, or senior developer. Like we have shared in the past, there are roadmaps you can follow to advance gradually and be able to apply for jobs at your dream companies.
How to move from Junior to Intermediate, and here.
How to move from Intermediate to Advanced
How to move from an advanced developer to A senior developer, and here
For a breakdown of each stack roadmap, see Frontend, Backend, and DevOps here.
Latest Dev jobs you should apply for
Advanced Backend Developer [Node, TypeScript; Remote/Mixed] 500k
Advanced Backend Engineer [Javascript, PHP/Laravel, Django] 350k - 450k
What skills should be learning to get the best jobs and at great companies home and abroad?
It’s important because really, the job you are in today, might have been what’s hot for the past years, but when you look into the future, does it look like it will remain so?
Top Jobs
Blockchain Engineering
DevOps and Site Reliability
Golang Developers
Dollars and Nigerian Fintech
First Quarter of this year so a massive $250M funding, ever wondered why everyone has been doing Fintech in Nigeria for the last 5yrs? Well, this quarter it reached a crescendo! Flutterwave raised $170m, Kudabank raised an additional $25m, Cowrywise raised 3m pre-series A, Bankly Raised $2m seed, AppZone Raised $10m. So, you ask yourself, what industry will be next to be this hot in the coming months or years. Well, my money is on Cryptocurrency!
Regulators and Innovations don’t mix, in Nigeria…they are sworn, enemies.
Regulators the world over are generally late to catch up with innovation but when they do, in saner clime, they first examine the economic impact of the innovation, then draw up policies to drive jobs, taxes and keep the economy afloat.
However, in Nigeria, Regulator’s first reaction is usually to ban! One will wonder if they ever take time to think about the economic impact of their decision and how to reduce unemployment. The CBN for a start has been looking for ways to get Nigerians off cryptocurrencies, earlier in the year, it initiated a policy to block bank accounts used in any way for cryptocurrency, then threaten service providers for virtual accounts. Last week, SEC came out with a statement against startups helping Nigerian’s invest in foreign assets, terming them as illegal. Well, what’s next….a ban?
On the other hand, CBN/NIBSS turned of BVN verification API by non-bank companies. Effectively stopping fintech from onboarding new customers with their BVN as KYC.
This weekend, we will be discussing moving on to other companies and the general attitude of tech companies in Nigeria.
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Have a code filled week….without bugs!