Head of Engineering at Peach Cars KE

e-commerce solution revolutionizing car ownership in sub-Saharan Africa. We started with an automotive marketplace, leveraging technology and robust offline operations to reduce pain points in the market for locally-used vehicles, delivering quality, convenience, and value to our customers. At Peach, we believe cars are more than their component parts - t...
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Head of Engineering

  • Job TypeFull Time
  • QualificationBA/BSc/HND
  • Experience7 - 10 years
  • LocationNairobi
  • Job FieldICT / Computer 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Tech / product strategy (incl. infrastructure/architecture, systems, security)

  • Act as the systems manager from 50,000 ft view as well as on the ground; innovating for a robust, secure, and scalable tech stack sitting at the heart of Peach
  • Work with Peach leadership, tech / product team, and other relevant stakeholders to build and maintain a product architecture that is scalable, secure, and robust
  • Work with Peach leadership and other, external stakeholders and inspiration to come up with innovative and potentially impactful ideas for internal and external-facing products, whether iterations on existing products or blue sky-style opportunities / ideas - both software only and joint, software/hardware innovations
  • Provide technical support for policy or regulatory-related matters of compliance and risk-reduction
  • Create technology standards and practices within the organization and ensure they are adhered to
  • Have an understanding of and be able to integrate hardware and software systems for harmonious implementation and use

Project / product management

  • Manage the product cycle at Peach Cars, including all product / project design, development, deployment, review and iteration (as needed) - with both internal and external stakeholders

Codebase management / strategic implementation

  • Establish new / maintain existing processes and standards to ensure high-quality software development. Implement best practices for maintaining code quality and test coverage.
  • As needed, by workload or strategic importance, write code 

People management

  • Oversee day to day duties of all team members including tooling, personnel career growth, budgeting and collaboration with other teams, through weekly reviews
  • Setting KPIs to guide business and people management, and scoping the roles and responsibilities for new hires
  • Ensure team members have growth and development within the team 

Business strategy and executive leadership

  • As a member of the executive team at Peach Cars, you will be responsible for engaging in other, technology and non-technology related matters such as regular strategy and planning sessions, OKR design and implementation, communication with specific teams, the whole Peach team, investors, advisors, and other external audiences 
  • Contribute to the future of Peach Cars apart from tech / product development ~ help make and remake strategy and operations across the business units, problem-solving for challenges and acting thoughtfully but nimbly to take advantage of opportunities  

JOB EXPERIENCE

Requirements 

  • Have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
  • Have experience in web and mobile development
  • Comprehend both front-end and back-end development
  • Minimum 7-10 years of experience in product development and team management
  • Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work within a team with a diverse set of

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