Jobs at Angaza

This Position

In this challenging and diverse role, you will function as a customer-facing product expert for our Nairobi-based Customer Experience organization. You will lead high-quality technical engagements with key customers to ensure we deeply understand their product needs. Your time will largely be split between working with both Support and Success to improve processes, lead projects, and continue our efforts to meet the growing needs of our customer base.

Success in this position requires technical knowledge and experience, extremely strong communication and organizational skills, and an eagerness to find new and better ways to get things done. This role reports directly to our VP of Customer Experience (VPCX) and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Success / Product

• Actively engage with a small set of customers in coordination with their Customer Success Manager to provide guidance regarding product and the customer’s unique needs.
• Become fully conversant in the the existing tech stack of assigned accounts.
• Work with customers that are integrating our solution data into their workflows via API.
• Be part of regular operational and business review meetings with key customers to discuss any technical concerns and provide updates on product feature requests.
• Manage feature requests for key customers and assigned accounts.

Support

• 1-2 hours per day handling tickets and participate in an off-hours pager rotation; this may scale up or down depending on team requirements.
• Cover Customer Support as needed for sick days, vacation, leave, etc.

Sales

This position may be requested to provide Sales-Engineer assistance on an as-needed basis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Technical field.
• Previous startup experience.
• 3-5 years of experience working on technical issues including APIs and integrations
• Ability to reproduce bugs in various environments (web, mobile, etc.).
• A basic understanding of how modern web development works French speaking is a plus.
• Familiarity with any of the following tools is a plus: Zendesk, Postman, Zapier, GitHub.
• Familiarity with SQL is a big plus.

Qualities

• Engage quickly.
• Provide quick and effective resolutions.
• Have good non-technical skills (organization, presentation, communication).
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Able to balance the needs of the customers and the business objectives of Angaza.
• Proficient at seeing things from different angles (pros and cons, weaknesses and strengths).

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Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to partner with our Data & Devices and Business Intelligence teams to own and scale our data pipelines and data infrastructure. As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll work closely with colleagues across the company to develop a deep understanding of our data streams and to design data and analytics solutions that support core business functions such as underwriting and analytics.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate with Engineering and Business Intelligence teams to design, test, develop, and maintain pipelines between cloud data sources.
• Interface with key stakeholders such as finance and sales to understand their needs and the data they generate.
• Develop backend features for core platform features including developer APIs, device management and underwriting.

We're Looking For Someone With

• 4+ years experience in a relevant field
• Fluency with Python
• Experience with SQL
• Familiarity with dbt (or similar tools), Snowflake and reverse ETL tools
• Experience with AWS Cloud Infrastructure

Our Stack

• Backend: Python with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Celery
• Infrastructure: AWS with PostgreSQL, EC2, Lambda, and friends managed through Terraform
• Frontend: modern JS with React/Redux
• Mobile: Android with Kotlin
• Business Intelligence Tools: dbt, Hevo, Snowflake, Sisense visualization service