Careers
Build the infrastructure layer of African health.
We are hiring engineers, designers and operations leads in Lagos to make Nigerian healthcare money move faster, fairer and with a clean audit trail. Small team, hard problem, real users.
A small team, working close to the operator.
We publish a lot about our culture because the culture is the moat. Salaries at Vetra are market-competitive, not top-of-market - the reason people join is that the team + the problem is the best they can find.
High altitude, low ego
We work on hard problems, we disagree in the open, and we ship the best answer regardless of who proposed it. Titles do not settle debates - evidence does.
Written-first culture
Product decisions live in shared docs, not meetings. If it is not written, it did not happen. We would rather trade an hour of writing for a week of alignment.
Slow food, fast software
Focused four-day sprints with the fifth day for deep work, code review and rest. We refuse the always-on rhythm most infra startups grind through.
Ship every week
Every engineer ships to production every week. No feature freezes, no quarterly train models. If your work is not in front of users soon, we did the plan wrong.
Stay close to the operator
Every teammate shadows a claims desk, a hospital front office or an HR benefits lead at least once a quarter. Empathy is a job requirement, not a soft skill.
Boring tech, sharp taste
Postgres, TypeScript, Next.js, Nest, Expo. Boring in the framework, ambitious in the product. We favour proven infra so we can spend our attention on the hard parts.
The practical stuff, up front.
We publish the ranges internally before the interview - and you should ask about them by round two. Ambiguity around comp is not a fair test.
Salary + equity
Market-competitive Naira salary, meaningful equity, annual review.
Full private health cover
You + primary dependants on a top-tier HMO plan. We are, after all, in this market.
Hybrid Lagos office
Two anchor days a week in the office; three flexible. Remote is possible in WAT ±3h.
Learning stipend
₦250,000 per year for courses, conferences, books. Approval is a form, not a debate.
Sabbatical after four years
One paid month off, no strings. We would rather you rest than burn out.
Machine + tools
MacBook Pro of your choice + a discretionary tools budget. If it makes you 5% better, buy it.
Roles we are hiring right now.
Every listing has a hiring manager named on the intake call. If nothing matches yet, the general-application row goes to the founders directly.
- Apply
Senior Product Engineer
OpenOwn end-to-end features across the claims and authorizations engines. TypeScript + Nest + Postgres. You will pair with adjudicators from pilot HMOs on Fridays.
Claims platform Lagos (hybrid) Full-time - Apply
Senior Backend Engineer
OpenBuild the money-movement layer: settlement runs, payment-proof reconciliation, invoice + receipt PDFs. Comfort with financial idempotency + auditability required.
Settlements + finance Lagos (hybrid) or remote (WAT ±3h) Full-time - Apply
Mobile Engineer (React Native / Expo)
OpenShip the consumer health-wallet app - digital card, coverage tracker, ghost-patient alerts. Expo, TypeScript, offline-first patterns.
Consumer wallet Lagos (hybrid) Full-time - Apply
Product Designer
OpenDesign the workflows adjudicators live in eight hours a day, plus the marketing surfaces buyers land on first. You will own the shared design system across the four portals.
Platform + marketing Lagos (hybrid) Full-time - Apply
Customer Operations Lead
OpenThe first Vetra face our pilot HMOs see every week. Own onboarding, tariff imports, provider link-requests and quarterly ops reviews. Prior HMO or hospital ops experience strongly preferred.
HMO success Lagos Full-time - Apply
General application
RollingNot seeing your role listed? We hire opportunistically for standout engineers, ops leads and designers who care deeply about Nigerian healthcare.
Any team Lagos or remote (WAT ±3h) Full-time
Not seeing a fit? Email careers@vetrainsure.com with a note about what you would like to build.
Five steps. Zero mystery.
We publish the shape of the process because we lose good people to companies that surprise them mid-loop. We would rather be dull than surprising.
- 1
Written intro (30 min)
Share a CV plus a one-paragraph answer to "what problem in Nigerian healthcare do you want to work on?". We reply within 5 business days.
- 2
Deep conversation (60 min)
A working conversation with the hiring manager. We dig into two projects on your CV and a Vetra-shaped problem for you to think through out loud.
- 3
Take-home + review (2 hrs)
A single, short take-home tied to the role - a design critique, a schema, a migration plan. Reviewed by two engineers on the team you would join.
- 4
On-site pairing (half day)
You pair with two teammates on a real ticket. We pay for your time. This is when you evaluate us as much as the reverse.
- 5
References + offer
Two reference calls (one you nominate, one we source). Offers arrive with a written scorecard so you know exactly what we saw.
A note on take-homes: we will never ask you to build a real feature Vetra wants to ship. If a take-home has any commercial value to us beyond the interview, we pay for it - and we tell you the going rate before you start.
“Every Vetra week I have paired with an actual adjudicator or a hospital finance lead. That closeness to the operator is the thing I have not found in any other place I have worked.”
Vetra engineer, 2026
Come build the layer under Nigerian health.
If the problem excites you and the culture reads honest - apply to an open role, or write to careers@vetrainsure.com with an idea.