Responsibilities:

• You will work closely with Product and Engineering leaders to contribute to the most valuable areas of technical decision making, advancing key initiatives and reducing risk on critical projects.


• You will drive technology R&D and product innovation through rapid prototyping to evolve KOKO’s technology stack so that teams can deliver the most valuable products to KOKO users


• You will serve as a technical authority and represent the full internal and external capabilities of our platforms within and outside the Product and Engineering teams


• You will provide technical mentorship and guidance to help us build a world class team of engineers


• You will help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews


• You will help build the engineering culture at KOKO, ensuring it is positioned to attract similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges.


• KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git

Qualifications

• Strong track record leading, developing, and delivering significant software projects with 8+ years of experience in software engineering.


• Significant experience in the following areas with deep expertise in a few: enterprise application and service based architectures, software design patterns, messaging protocols, cyber security, distributed application development, modern front-end design, highly scalable data architectures


• Significant experience in making architectural decisions that allow multiple teams to deliver independently 


• Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, security and maintainability.


• Evangelist for Agile practices, able to work with product leaders to support engineering team members in delivering in an agile manner to deliver on key goals.


• Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure.


• Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.


• We are looking for a highly technical leader with significant experience in scaling and maintaining complex, mission critical systems, and making key architectural decisions along the way.  You should be comfortable leading and coaching in a remote environment, building rapport across the team, doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.

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