Own an outcome, not a ticket
Teams are small. You are trusted with a whole problem, from the buyer or supplier need through to the shipped result.
Careers
Build the infrastructure African trade has been missing
Gloseg exists so a producer in Tamale or Kumasi can sell to a buyer in Rotterdam with the same confidence as a supplier in Shenzhen. That is an infrastructure problem, and we are hiring people who want to solve it.
How we work
Small teams, whole problems, real consequences
Three things shape almost every decision inside the group.
Built in Africa, for global trade
The people closest to the trade problem build the product. Most of the team sits in West Africa and works with buyers worldwide.
Trade is trust work
Verification, escrow and compliance are not features to us. If you cut corners there, real businesses lose real money.
What we value
How we judge good work
These are the standards used in review, not aspirations on a wall.
Money moves through us
Order value, escrow balances and payouts pass through the platform. Work that touches money is reviewed, audited and reversible before it is fast.
Evidence over opinion
A supplier is verified because a document, a check or a transaction says so. We argue from records, not from impressions.
Write it down
Decisions, policies and trade-offs are written so the next person, in another country and timezone, can act on them without a meeting.
Ship to a real corridor
Features are judged against an actual corridor and an actual buyer or supplier, not against a demo.
What working here means
What the job is actually like
An honest description of the working conditions, so you can decide before you write to us.
- You work on live trade, not a sandbox
- The suppliers, orders and shipments you touch are real African businesses selling to real international buyers. Feedback arrives from the market within days.
- Small teams, whole problems
- You are given a corridor, a surface or a workflow end to end, with the context and access needed to change it.
- Distributed across African markets
- The group operates across multiple African markets and works with buyers in other timezones, so written handover and asynchronous decisions are the norm.
- We state expectations plainly
- Scope, ownership and how your work is assessed are agreed at the start. We do not advertise perks or compensation we have not committed to in writing.
Teams and disciplines
The six problems the group is organised around
Every role sits inside one of these, and every one of them touches a live transaction.
Engineering
Product engineering, platform, data and payment integrations.
Owns the systems the trade runs on: catalogue, RFQ, orders, escrow-controlled payment flow.
Trade operations
Supplier onboarding, verification review, dispute handling.
Decides whether a company is safe to trade with, and resolves it when a transaction goes wrong.
Commercial
Buyer growth, supplier acquisition, partnerships across corridors.
Builds both sides of a corridor so demand and verified supply arrive at the same time.
Export training
Curriculum, guides and live training for the Export Academy.
Turns a first-time exporter into a business that can quote, document and ship correctly.
Logistics
Freight coordination, port documentation, shipment tracking.
Gets goods from an inland producer to a port and onto a vessel with the paperwork intact.
Trust & compliance
Sanctions screening, restricted goods, policy and risk.
Keeps the platform inside the law in every market it touches, and keeps bad actors off it.
Where and how we hire
How a role actually opens
We hire when a discipline needs to grow, and we hire from the markets we trade in.
We hire against disciplines, not a roles board
There is no permanently open vacancy list. When a team needs to grow we hire against the disciplines above, which is why a specific speculative application is genuinely read.
Corridor and market context counts
Experience of African trade, export documentation, cross-border payments or operating with international buyers is treated as directly relevant experience.
One mailbox, one thread
Applications arrive at a single mailbox and stay in one thread, so nothing is lost between offices.
Where the group sits
Accra, GhanaHeadquarters
London, UKEuropean Office
Lagos, NigeriaRegional Office
Monrovia, LiberiaRegional Office
Hiring process
Four steps, and a decision either way
The same process for every discipline. You are told where you stand at each step.
- 1
Email us
Send a short note on the problem you want to own and a CV or portfolio link.
- 2
Conversation
A 30 minute call on your experience and what you would change about African trade.
- 3
Practical exercise
A scoped, paid-for-your-time task close to the real work. No trick puzzles.
- 4
Decision
A yes or no with reasons, within a week.
What we look for
What makes an application land
Regardless of discipline, these four things decide most of our conversations.
Evidence of ownership
Something you carried from unclear problem to shipped, measured result, including the parts that were not your job description.
Comfort with ambiguity
Trade is messy: incomplete documents, missing data, partial answers. You make progress without waiting for a clean brief.
Care about trust surfaces
You treat verification, escrow, compliance and buyer or supplier money as work that must be right, not work to be shipped quickly.
Written communication
You can explain a decision in a paragraph that someone in another market can act on tomorrow.
Apply
Tell us the problem you want to own
Name the discipline, the market you know, and what you would change about African trade. That is enough to start.