Engineering Manager NGO Job OAF

About the Role

We believe that technology is critical to building the most efficient rural distribution network on the African continent. Our passionate dev team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operation staff to register millions of farmers and their orders, optimize delivery truck loads and routes, track deliveries, collect mobile payments, and enable decision support solutions such as analyzing loan repayments.

Our tech stack is varied, but the system you’ll be responsible for is the Odoo ERP which is coded in Python and heavily uses the JavaScript POS frontend. Our Odoo system runs on a containerized cloud environment in Kubernetes.

Our tooling landscape includes GitHub (and GitHub Actions) for CI/CD, JIRA, and Azure.

Responsibilities

  • Report to engineering leadership
  • Lead a 5-8 person development team working in Agile to reliably ship solutions
  • Support our technology transformation efforts – modular, event-driven
  • Relentlessly improve and refine our development processes and quality
  • Mentor your team members and support their growth
  • Nurture a great team culture
  • Career Growth and Development
  • We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

  • 5+ years experience in building software solutions, including 2+ years in a leadership role
  • Passion for quality and automation
  • A desire to keep learning
  • Comfortable with cloud-native technologies, architecture, and containerization
  • Experienced Agile (scrum) practitioner – CSM/CSPO appreciated
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Familiarity with Odoo and ERP systems.

How to Apply

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