Vacancy title:
Principal Engineer re-advertised
Jobs at:
Koko NetworksDeadline of this Job:
13 February 2023
Summary
Date Posted: Monday, January 30, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Your Role
As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for highly experienced software engineers to guide the development of our cloud based products, and be responsible for development and implementation of the technical roadmaps associated with them.
In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute and add value across key areas of KOKO's product suite, through individual contribution, and equally importantly through bringing strong leadership and direction.
KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key.
What you will do
• 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
• 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.
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
Job Experience: No Requirements
Work Hours: 8
Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Job application procedure
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