Head of Engineering at Peach Cars KE

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

Experiences and skills

• Be highly proactive and have ability to find solutions  
• Knowledgeable in the following technologies: Python / REST API’s / VueJS.