Duties & Responsibilities:

• Full Stack Engineering Member - Innovate (disruptive & continuous improvements) to the processes, systems, tools & products.
• Designing and building quick function, scalable & simple working prototypes
• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional innovation projects.
• Ability to clearly communicate high-level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including senior leadership.
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions.
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture and help build a fast-growing team
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done

Requirements:

• 10+ years prior experience in software product, innovation & labs development.
• Masters / Degree in Computer Science or Related Field from premier institutes.

Must have:

• Experience in a wide range of technology choices
• Strong experience in architecting and building distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS/Google Cloud/Azure
• Proficient with RDBMS & NoSQL Databases
• Strong knowledge of data stores, database design, data modeling, and SQL queries.
• Strong knowledge of one or more big data processing stacks
• Enforcing excellent code quality
• Experience working on one or more large-scale applications/platforms
• Driving Non-Functional Requirements
• Should be proficient in Server Side (Java/Linux/J2EE) technologies
• Experience in handling complex production issues

Good to have:

• Knowledge of B2B & B2C retail e-Commerce
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
• DevOps mindset.
• Experience in data science is plus
• Experience in Spring boot or any good framework.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop a competitive total rewards strategy to support Wasoko’s mission and business goals
• Direct all design and implementation of our total rewards programs and policies
• Develop communication strategies and success metrics relating to total rewards
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing compensation and benefits, cost effectiveness and alignment with company goals and values
• Ensure compliance with all governmental regulations related to compensation and benefits.
• Utilize a data driven approach to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions to attract and retain the right talent.
• Direct salary benchmarking and annual salary reviews
• Develop a compensation model for all roles and levels train people managers across the entire organization.
• Provide leadership to the total rewards team through effective coaching and performance management
• Advise senior leaders across the organization on trends within our markets

Requirements:

The successful candidate will possess:

• 7+ years of leadership experience in a People / HR role, (recent experience expanding and managing People Operations at a high-growth start-up a plus).
• Minimum 4+ years experience in a leadership role focused on the design and implementation of complex total rewards programs
• Experience supporting a fast growing workforce of 1000+ employees across multiple geographies
• Bachelor's degree required, Master’s degree or related certifications are a plus.
• Great attention to detail
• Strong communicator with the ability to provide both strategic foresight and feedback across all levels of employees
• Ability to professionally handle confidential information
• Strong EQ and ability to influence decisions
• Regional experience within Africa
• Previous experience working in fast-paced, decentralized environments; experience helping organizations scale
• French proficiency a bonus

Requirements:

• 6+ years prior experience in software product development and DevOps or TechOps.
• 3+ years prior experience in DevOps Automation
• Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology from premier institutes.
• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using core DevOps principles.
• Hands-on experience in using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, and Kubernetes with proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable.
• Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques, and integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration.
• Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA and Production environments.
• Contribute to an efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
• Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of environment automation.
• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).
• Experience with middleware and databases like Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, MySQL or similar.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of environments by using automation and self-healing principles.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.
• Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.
• Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in production environments.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions.
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture, and help build a fast-growing team.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done.

Must have:

• 3+ years prior experience in DevOps Automation.
• Experience in handling native cloud infrastructure (RDMS, NoSQL, Networking, Compute Engines, Virtualization, Data Stores, Multi-layered Architectures, Proxies, Load balancing, API Gateways, Caching, CDN & other e-Commerce Stacks)
• Hands-on experience in Monitoring, Alerting, Log Management, Security, Availability, Performance, Web apps, Mobile Apps, Middleware & Microservices.
• Experience working on one or more large-scale applications/platforms
• Experience in handling complex production issues

Good to have.

• Knowledge of B2B & B2C retail eCommerce
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
• Experience in a newer Spring boot or any good framework.