Jobs at Koko Networks

We are looking for a Senior Electronics Design Engineer to provide technical ownership for the electronic designs that make up KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other products through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. 

In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions.

What you will do

• As a domain leader in the area of electronics, oversee the complete lifecycle of IoT electronics from design, documentation, test, deployment to continuous monitoring.
• Work with business, product and engineering stakeholders to capture learnings from KOKO’s operations and deliver on the hardware aspects of KOKO’s product roadmap to address key opportunities, issues and risks identified.
• Lead electronics component sourcing & evaluation of parts for existing and new products.
• Support the process of production setup for prototyping, new production mass production and change management in collaboration with internal and external teams.
• Help define test strategies / build test rigs for R&D, production and operational needs.
• Use data from the field to inform change management for existing products
• Serve as a technical authority representing the electronics design, by developing comprehensive documentation, test data, and associated knowledge management.
• Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, mentor and guide junior engineers and instill engineering excellence into the team.

What You Will Bring to KOKO

Nice to haves:

• 5+ years of hands on experience in electronics design
• Strong track record developing  and delivering significant electronics projects through to mass production.
• Significant experience in the following areas with deep expertise in a few: Electronics systems design, PCB schematic design, RF design, component selection, PCB layout, manufacturing processes, control theory.
• Skills in prototyping with development kits (e.g. Arduino or Raspberry Pi)
• Expert in electronics CAD tools e.g. OrCad / Altium / Eagle
• Demonstrated experience in control systems, control theory and hardware Integration.
• Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, security and maintainability.
• Experience in design for global safety / regulatory requirements (CSA, UL, etc.).
• Strong communicator, both written and verbal.
• Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.
• Embedded software (bare metal / RTOS / Linux) development in C/C++
• Understanding of the greater IoT tech stack (MQTT, security etc..)
• Knowledge of automated dispensing systems design for liquids and solids.
• Knowledge of fuel distribution industry

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We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development of firmware for KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other goods through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. 

In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions.

What you will do

• Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products.
• Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systems
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
• Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation
• Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO

What You Will Bring to KOKO

Other skills:

• Strong, proven experience coding (5+ years) and good design principles in C/C++ for embedded systems
• Solid and demonstrable understanding of Linux and programming for Linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
• Experience programming in both RTOS and bare metal environments
• Ability to developing and debug low level protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI) and higher level communication protocols (e.g. BLE, USB)
• Strong troubleshooting skills for investigating reported issues, debugging and fixing field problems
• Knowledge of IoT “edge” device development and strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP, MQTT) and interfaces (TCP/IP, TLS)
• Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines
• A good grasp of electronics - ability to read schematics and data sheets
• Experience in developing commercial products - proven experience developing for hardware at scale
• Strong analytical skills, working with engineering best practices to get the best results
• Team player, conscientious and with a strong collaborative ethos

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Your Role

As a dispatch clerk, you will ensure timely and correct dispatch of products as per delivery schedule to customers and maintains an effective system for monitoring stock loading as per load manifests with matching barcodes and physical quantities.

What You Will Do

• To manage accurate stock transfers during loading of trucks from the loading bay and ensure there is efficiency
• Receive and prepare work orders, monitor jobs in progress and inform personnel about any logistic problems or updates or customer concerns
• Monitor stock movement into the trucks from the loading bay and ensure proper documentation and sign off with the driver and security after accurate verification of load and documents
• Continuous monitoring and scheduling and assigning work to crews, delivery vehicles for the daily task at hand
• Ensure that all relevant procedures, SOPs and routines are followed and adhered to in line with the company policy, procedures and requirements
• Any other tasks as required by your supervisor

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• Diploma in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related field
• 1+ year of work experience in a busy distribution set up
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work
• Attention to detail
• Good computer skills (working knowledge of ERP preferred)
• Knowledge of basic stock-taking procedures
• Good report writing skills
• Flexibility with change in work shifts
• Honesty, integrity, and ethics

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Your Role

As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for highly experienced engineers to guide development of our cloud and field based products, and be responsible for major technical decisions associated with them accountable for their successful execution.

In this position on the software engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to many customer and internal facing products. 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 for this role.

What you will do

• Design, implement and deploy web-based front-end applications and back-end services
• Provide technical delivery assurance for multiple software projects in an agile team-based environment, acting as a subject matter expert across several product/technology areas
• Own high level technical architecture decisions across multiple areas and guide others in making the right design and implementation choices in their areas
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, project managers and other engineers to define, design, scope and ship new features using elegant solutions.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in key technical and process areas, championing innovation in our approach
• 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
• Mentor and support engineers in their career progression
• Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• Significant experience leading design and development of cloud applications at enterprise scale using relevant technologies for our stack
• Deep experience with Cloud/ SaaS architectures and how to build secure, maintainable, scalable, high availability services
• Expert understanding of unit testing, design patterns and use of software analysis tools (profilers, static code analysis etc)
• Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)
• Experience working in an Agile multi-functional team
• Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers
• Great oral and written communication skills