Job Title: Legal Officer
Job ID: 146
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Industry: Technology
Job Description
- Review, draft and support negotiation of commercial agreements across Qore’s business lines, including platform agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, data processing agreements, service agreements, standard terms and other commercial documents.
- Conduct legal research and prepare clear research notes, summaries, draft positions and advisory support materials for Senior Legal Lead review.
- Support contract lifecycle management for assigned matters, including intake, review, execution coordination, filing, renewal tracking, expiry tracking and obligation monitoring.
- Review counterparty mark-ups, flag deviations from standard positions and prepare comparison notes for Senior Legal Lead review.
- Prepare first drafts of routine legal documents, correspondence, notices, amendments, consents, contract summaries and internal legal notes.
- Support regulatory-adjacent legal matters, Board-facing legal preparation, governance-adjacent legal work and transaction documentation as directed by the Senior Legal Lead.
- Maintain documentation standards, template currency, precedent library records, clause libraries and legal repository hygiene.
- Coordinate execution logistics for agreements moving to signature, including signature block checks, document collation, filing and tracker updates.
- Work with LRCC Operations & Controls to ensure assigned legal matters are properly logged, tracked and updated in the task management system.
- Review AI-assisted legal outputs before escalating them to the Senior Legal Lead or relying on them for research, drafting or contract review support.
- Provide occasional cross-functional support to other LRCC teams in crisis or high-priority matters where legal execution support or generalist LRCC exposure is required.
Requirements
- Nigerian-qualified lawyer with LLB and BL with 3–5 years’ post-call experience.
- Experience in a reputable commercial law firm and an in-house / industry role, preferably within a regulated business, financial services institution, fintech, payments company, technology company or similarly complex environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Nigerian commercial law, contract fundamentals, corporate law basics and the legal environment for fintech, payments or digital financial services.
- Good contract drafting, review and issue-spotting skills.
- Strong legal research ability and clear legal writing.
- Good generalist legal exposure across contracts, regulatory-adjacent advisory, corporate governance support, compliance-adjacent matters, data protection clauses and legal operations.
- Strong organisation, matter tracking and deadline management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple assigned matters at once and escalate early where senior legal judgment is required.
- Attention to detail, sound judgment and willingness to work within defined templates, playbooks, trackers and approval gates.
- Comfort using AI-assisted tools responsibly as part of legal research, drafting, document review and matter tracking.
Advantageous:
- Experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, SaaS, lending, financial services or technology contracting.
- Experience supporting contract repositories, legal operations, task management systems or document automation.
- Exposure to data protection, AML/KYC, regulatory filings or Board-facing documentation.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- The ideal candidate is a disciplined mid-level lawyer who wants to grow into a strong commercial legal adviser.
- They are careful with drafting, reliable with deadlines, honest about escalation, and comfortable working in a structured legal team where quality, documentation and speed all matter.
- They should be able to support the Senior Legal Lead without needing every instruction broken down, while still knowing when a matter is above their authority and must be escalated.
Benefits
- Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa.
- Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes:
- Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
- Flexible work option (Remote)
- Paid Lunch for onsite work
- Lifelong Learnings
Application Closing Date
31st August, 2026.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online