Yape operates Peru's dominant payments platform with over 20 million users and 2.5 million affiliated merchants. The hiring velocity is accelerating with product and data roles leading the mix—signaling a shift from payments-only toward broader super-app capabilities. Stack includes Salesforce, Zendesk, Kustomer, and BI tooling (Power BI, Qualtrics), alongside Python and Spark, reflecting both customer-engagement scaling and data-architecture challenges tied to rapid growth and legacy-system integration.
Yape is Peru's largest mobile payments application, serving over 20 million users and 2.5 million merchants across the country. The platform has expanded internationally to Bolivia. The company operates as a partnership, employing 501–1,000 people based in Lima. Current product roadmap includes ecommerce integration, checkout optimization, and super-app feature development to address daily consumer and merchant needs. Pain points center on handling rapid growth, legacy-system integration, inefficient CRM processes, and scaling data architecture to support transaction volume and user engagement.
Yape serves over 20 million users and 2.5 million affiliated merchants across Peru, making it the country's largest payments app. The platform has also expanded to Bolivia.
Yape's stack includes Salesforce, Zendesk, Kustomer for CRM/support; Power BI and Qualtrics for analytics; Python, Java, Node.js, and Apache Spark for backend; and GitHub Copilot for development tooling.
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