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    Chief Technology Officer - Nairobi, Kenya - Founders Factory

    Founders Factory
    Founders Factory Nairobi, Kenya

    6 days ago

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    ABOUT THE COMPANY

    We're on a mission to power founders to go further, faster.
    We believe that by providing exceptional founders with capital, expert operational
    support and access to world-class corporates, we can create technology
    companies that solve our world's biggest challenges.

    JOB SUMMARY

    You will be working in an autonomous, agile environment with a small team that values collaboration, learning, and sharing. By joining us, you would be joining a tight-knit team at a time when you can make a real impact on the direction of the company. Being a start-up the work is fast-paced and varied – you are flexible to change and motivated to deliver the best product possible.Requirements:Have engineering management experience in a high-growth start-up or medium-sized product-focused tech company with experience leading developer teamsAbility to identify the best cloud architecture options (AWS/GCP) to help the firm accomplish its strategic goalsMinimum 5 years Experience with the Python (Django) web framework for PythonFull stack Angular experienceExperience with REST APIs in payments and B2B integrationsHands-on experience with relational databases (ideally Postgres)Demonstrated track-record of delivering user-centric products with modern technologies for a variety of different problem domainsGenuinely enjoy mentoring and coaching engineers to guide their professional, technical and personal development as well as motivating and challenging them to focus on delivering high-quality solutions that match the business requirements of a start-upEnthusiastic about defining and cultivating a product-oriented engineering culture that instils a spirit of continuous improvement in all aspects of building products, while fostering multi-disciplinary teams that value inclusive and respectful collaborationWell organized, able to manage time effectively, and comfortable working across multiple projects/businesses concurrentlyWorked on a diverse set of full stack technologies including experience with web, mobile, data and infrastructure

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Guide team development efforts across backend, web and mobile applications in line with user requirements towards successful project deliveryProvide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorshipMaintain high software quality standards within the team by establishing good practices and habitsCollaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and desktop-based business applicationsPrepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of softwareDesign, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.Oversee the migration of legacy applications to the current stack.Collaborate with the various functions to understand the business needs and translate to the technical teamAssist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plansParticipate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.Package and support deployment of releases.Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applicationsAnalyse and resolve technical and application problems.Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.Research and evaluate a variety of software productsOversee the development and maintenance of current projects.Perform backend/database programming for key projects.Assist with testing, debugging, documentation and overall quality assurance of projects. Develop and deploy features/projects assigned to the self.Research, design and implement technical specifications for projects based on user requirements as indicated in the scope of work, wireframes and/or sitemap documentsEnsure projects are built to meet performance, security, and functional requirements.Be responsible for managing the servers and application architecture as well as the CI/CD pipelines and deployments.Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and on budget.Spend at least 25% of your time actually writing code.

    REQUIRED SKILLS

    Testing and debugging, Collaboration, Team leadership, Documentation and record keeping

    REQUIRED EDUCATION

    Bachelor's degree

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