Purpose/Mission

We are looking for a passionate lead engineer and inspiring manager to shape the evolution of our IOT and telecom integration system as well as line manage a team of 5-7 software engineers. As key member of the digital team, this role will help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.

Tech stack

Here is a summary of some of the tools:

• Web frameworks: Rails, Flask, Django, FastAPI, VueJs, Angular
• Storage: PGSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
• Distributed task: Celery, Sidekiq, RabbitMQ, Kafka
• Integration protocols and frameworks: REST, SOAP, SIP, WebRTC
• Source control: selfhosted for gitlab and CI/CD
• Deployment: Linux, LXC, Docker, Kubernetes
• Domain: Financial, Custom Call centre (VOIP), IOT, SMS, USSD, Mobile Money
• Observability: Prometheus, Graylog, Kibana, Splunk, zabbix

Responsibilities

• Define software engineering strategy and architecture with other leaders, fully responsible for the technical evolution of at least one software product.
• Maintain knowledge on the latest technology trends and tools to ensure EEA software competitiveness.
• Actively participate and understand the ROI of engineering efforts, understand the value creation and the priorities to the business.
• Develop and own complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
  • Establishing clarity on business objectives for proper modelling of business processes.
  • Represent the technical team or assign someone in stakeholder conversations.
  • Ensure correct implementation and understanding of business logic in the team.
• Put efficient development process in place with tools and metrics to stay on top of performance of the team.
  • Work closely with Product manager for resource planning and proper estimation
  • Ensure agile processes and other best practices are properly implemented.
• Architectural evolution and tech debt management:
  • Code quality, compliance, and documentation
  • System performance at scale, reliability, observability, and high availability
  • System security compliance
• Line management of 5-7 software engineers
  • Grow and develop individual software engineers, set goals and evaluate performance.
  • Recruit and hire software engineers including interns and freelancers.
  • Drive team culture.
  • Contract management with external developers in collaboration with Head of Software Engineering.

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Experience And Skills

Required Skills:

• Entrepreneurial and forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business.
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• At least 6 years of relevant experience, with 2 years of leading a software team of size 4-7.
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering.
• Good experience on high availability, observability, and structured logging
• Web and application server (for python and ruby web apps) management experience (Linux, MySQL, Systemd, Apache, Nginx, etc)
• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring
• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms, operating systems, and solid computer science fundamentals.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Desired Skills:

• Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
• Knowledge of key components and dependencies used in current system: ActiveAdmin, Grape, Sidekiq, Rspec, Searchd.
• Knowledge of containerization and container orchestration is a strong advantage.
• Good knowledge of web application security
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions.
• Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
• Experience with git and GitLab based source code management.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)

Language(s):

• English
• French is a plus