Senior Manager – Software Development at Virtual HR

Our client, Kasha Technologies Ltd , a fast-growing startup e-commerce company in East Africa focused on women’s health and personal care is looking for a dynamic, innovative and result-orientated individual to fill in the following position in Nairobi:

Senior Manager – Software Development

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Senior Manager – Software Development will be responsible for building large, extensible, scalable, and secure cloud services and setting up of solid DevOps with automated testing strategies.

Principal Accountabilities

• Building innovative & successful digital omnichannel commerce solutions for the Company
• Increasing conversion of ecommerce, social and USSD stores by iteratively testing and launching products and improvements
• Leading software engineering team to deliver the company software needs in order to grow the business
• Simplifying complex business requirements to rapidly deliver practical & frugal solutions iteratively
• Leading company’s system architecture and guiding the team in building scalable, extensible, and secure systems and services
• Leading the team to ensure adherence to good software development practices and ensuring all services are available and automatically alert on downtime
• Mentoring software engineers and building high performing teams through vendors
• Leading teams in building a scalable reliable cloud services, ecommerce solutions, USSD, mobile apps and integrating them with social platforms

Key Qualifications and Experience

• A Degree in Computer Science or any relevant field.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in Software Development
• Experience working with multiple geographically distributed teams proven team leadership skills
• Experience in automated testing, and end user data collection and analytics.
• Strong computer skills in WordPress, WooCommerce, MySQL, PHP, Python and a strongly typed language such as Java
• Ability to build and maintain good relationships with business stakeholders.