How We Work
Small, senior teams. Each platform is delivered end to end — architecture, build, regulatory review and long-term operation — by people who have run infrastructure at Cisco, Oracle, VMware, Apple, Dell EMC, MTN and central banks, rather than handed off between specialists at each stage.
Institutional pace, startup ownership. A platform like Nigeria’s National Trade & Investment Portal moved from a standing start to production in 31 days; a regulator-reviewed national payment system like TARADA is built in step with the Bank of South Sudan over many months. Both are run by the same small team, which means everyone carries real responsibility for what they ship, on a timeline the work actually demands.
Compliance and engineering sit together, not in sequence. Regulatory frameworks, security protocols and audit requirements are built into a platform from its architecture, not bolted on before a review — so the same engineers who write the code also answer for how it holds up to a central bank’s supervisors.
Remote-first, continent-wide. The team works across time zones and languages, in English and French, coordinating daily across West, East, Central and Southern Africa and further afield.
Where We Are
Interstellar’s people are based in Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon and Mauritius, with group entities in Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Seychelles and Toronto.
That footprint is deliberate: a platform built for Lagos or Nairobi is built by people who work there, not by a team observing the market from outside it. Mauritius, as the Group’s holding jurisdiction, anchors the corporate structure; Toronto gives the Group a base in North America.