Senior Back End Engineer at Koko Networks

Your role will require you to lead on development projects relating to these areas and be responsible for their successful execution.  You will keep a watchful eye on our systems’ capacity and performance, optimise our software’s use of resources and strengthen security. 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 to enabling KOKO’s expansion within and outside of Kenya

What you will do

• Lead projects to deliver performance improvements in areas you identify with the SRE and the wider engineering team
• Review and improve on our software designs to deliver improvements to the reliability and scalability of our systems and services
• Strengthen our security posture by reviewing and implementing improvements conformant with secure coding standards
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews
• Support DevOps engineers in the SRE team with software development tasks as needed
• Be on-call to manage high priority issues when needed, in collaboration with other engineering team members via our incident response processes.
• Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO