Job Openings at Kasha Technologies Ltd

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.

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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:

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, the Senior Product Manager – Customer Experience & Health Products will be responsible for working with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll-out products that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.

Principal Accountabilities

• Leading products vision & strategy and launching market leading products
• Building a platform for the company to interact with customers in a direct and personified manner in offline- and online markets, on top of social media platforms, web, mobile apps and call center
• Steering the company to be a trusted and innovative partner and leading in product development with company’s grant & B2B partners globally
• Working with multiple teams in the development of products including close follow-up with all key stakeholders
• Building deep connections with customers through user research, site visits, events and personal conversations to ensure products address gaps in the market
• Creating competitive landscape and market analysis to promote research about existing products services
• Evaluating promotional plans to ensure that they are consistent with product line strategy and that the message is effectively conveyed

Key Qualifications and Experience

• A Degree in Business, Technology or a relevant field.
• At least Five (5) years’ experience in driving product strategy and launching successful consumer products
• Experience in developing products in the sector of health will be an added advantage
• Practical experience with design thinking, user-centric design (UCD), and human-centered design (HCD)
• Strong affinity for metrics and data to guide product development and expansion
• Ability to build and maintain good relationship with business stakeholders
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal