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Deadline of these Jobs: 14 December 2022
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,200+ employees across East Africa & India. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth. Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel; and (3) KOKO Club, a tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer, instant fulfillment retail platform operated in partnership with neighborhood retailers. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.
Python and Odoo Engineer
Deadline of these Jobs: 14 December 2022
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,200+ employees across East Africa & India. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth. Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel; and (3) KOKO Club, a tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer, instant fulfillment retail platform operated in partnership with neighborhood retailers. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.
Principal Engineer
What you will do
- Shape large components of KOKO’s technical strategy, ensuring that it meets functional and non functional needs (e.g. performance, maintainability, monitorability, security and reliability).
- Own high level technical architecture decisions across multiple areas and guide others in making the right design and implementation choices in their areas
- Review design work of new projects in other teams, thinking through complex issues in advance, and anticipating potential pitfalls.
- Proactively seek and identify improvements to KOKO technology whilst balancing the needs of existing projects.
- Provide technical delivery assurance for multiple software projects in an agile team-based environment, acting as a subject matter expert across several product/technology areas
- Review quality processes in operation on projects and ensure that team members adhere to agreed systems and standards.
- Mentor and support other engineers in their career progression, and provide candid appraisals and counselling
- Evangelise of newer technologies helping KOKO systems to be more efficient, reliable and performant, driving PoCs where necessary.
- Organise and deliver training across the team, in order that the team’s overall knowledge and awareness of key skills is well maintained.
- Assess effort estimations and provide the complete technical picture that others need to guide their decision making.
KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Redis, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git
What You Will Bring to KOKO
- Significant experience leading design and development of cloud applications at enterprise scale using relevant technologies for our stack
- Deep experience with Cloud/ SaaS architectures and how to build secure, maintainable, scalable, high availability services
- Expert understanding of unit testing, design patterns and use of software analysis tools (profilers, static code analysis etc)
- Significant experience in the following areas: enterprise application and service based architectures, software design patterns, messaging protocols, cyber security, distributed application development, modern front-end design, highly scalable data architectures.
- Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, security and maintainability.
- Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)
- Experience working in an Agile multi-functional team
- Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers
- You are strongly motivated by seeing high quality outcomes delivered, and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems as needed to ensure the desired outcomes.
- Great oral and written communication skills
What We Offer
- Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
- Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
- Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents
- Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely
- 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
- Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
- The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop
What You Will Do
- Build KOKO’s HSE strategy and culture: develop and embed a culture of prioritizing team, category, and environmental health and safety into all KOKO operations, as well as ensure a safety lens is taken in the launch of new geographies and new categories
- Design and refine HSE plans: create, refine, and audit company-wide HSE policies and practices, while promoting high awareness and strong buy-in across the organization
- Ensure regulatory compliance: develop scorecards, tracking systems, and monitoring plans to ensure operations comply with local and international standards and regulations
- Manage local HSE teams: hire, manage, and mentor HSE department heads in country business units and interface with country MDs and other key stakeholders to ensure safety remains a core value in all business units
- Ensure team safety: identify top risks to employee, contractor, and agent health and safety and generate mitigation plans tailored to each operating environment
- Ensure category safety: identify top risks from each business category (currently, liquid fuel and non-perishable FMCGs) and support design and implementation of protocols to minimize risks and likelihood of customer impact
- Lead internal OSH efforts: oversee and support the employee-led Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Committees, aimed at raising accountability for HSE across the enterprise and giving voice to team and category safety risks that may not otherwise receive sufficient attention
What You Will Bring To KOKO
- University degree in relevant field, such as Engineering or Business (Master’s preferred)
- 15+ years of experience in a related field, with a demonstrated track record of success
- 8+ years of management experience building and mentoring teams
- Domain expertise with health, safety, and environmental management, ideally in at least one of our existing business categories (liquid fuels or FMCGs)
- In-depth knowledge of industry codes and standards in emerging markets (ideally Africa and/or India)
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, ideally with prior experience at a growth-stage startup or multinational corporate
- Aptitude for cross-functional management, including ability to identify activities that matter most and keep teams focused on delivering top priorities on-time and to the highest standard
- Excellent critical analytical thinking and communications skills
- Ownership mindset and comfort in a fast-paced, growth-stage startup environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to bridge gaps across cultures and backgrounds
- Deep network of colleagues and partners who would be eager to join you at KOKO or support our growth efforts
- Unquestionable integrity and ability to embed company culture and values within teams
Python and Odoo Engineer
Senior Back End Engineer (SRE)
Senior Data Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer
Software Engineering Manager
Senior Technology Product Manager: KOKO Labs
Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 14 December 2022
Duty Station: Several locations
Posted: 06-12-2022
No of Jobs: 8
Start Publishing: 05-12-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 05-12-2066
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