talentsafari · Nairobi
Skills: SQL
ABOUT THE COMPANY Jackfruit Finance lends to the people who educate a continent. We provide working capital, project, and asset finance to low-fee private schools, the schools that teach the children with the fewest alternatives and that formal credit markets will not touch. Since inception, we have financed 1,022 schools and 72 SMEs across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, reaching 305,265 children and 13,004 teachers, and 70.3% of the school directors we back are women. We financed our 1,000th school this year. We are scaling on three fronts at once: - Geographically: we now operate across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. - Into new products: a gender-lens SME book and health-facility lending, because a school is the most reliable node in its community’s economy and the natural conduit into it. - And in how we work: we are live on Musoni as our core banking platform, we run a growing set of AI agents and automations across origination, credit, and operations, and people across the company are increasingly building their own tools with AI. With $12m of lending, a 98% collections rate, and a field force operating in places most lenders will not go, we have the data to make that real. Come help us continue to grow! ABOUT THE ROLE Jackfruit’s competitive advantage is that we can underwrite a school no one else will lend to. That advantage lives in our data and in the systems that collect it: what our school support leads see in the field, what schools tell us about enrollment and fee collection, and how those signals translate into a credit decision and a repayment schedule that a school can actually meet. Data is not a back-office function at Jackfruit; it is the machinery of the lending business itself. We are building on this towards a truly Regenerative Lending approach (see here). The foundations are now in place. Our core banking migration is done, and Musoni is the system of record. Much of the lending workflow already has automation in it: an AI credit agent, credit sc…
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