Technical Lead

Summary

Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.
We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.
We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.
We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.

The Role

We are searching for an innovative technical lead to join our company. As the technical lead, you will oversee the company’s technical team and all projects they undertake, analyze briefs, write progress reports, identify risks, and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals.

To be successful as a technical lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. Outstanding technical leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with the team on identifying the technical requirements for new or existing projects/features.
• Delegating and assigning work/tasks to team members in order to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals.
• Liaising with other technical leads to set standards and engineering policy/procedure documents.
• Ensuring team members work according to set standards and engineering procedures.
• Leading and guiding the team through technical issues and challenges.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping himself/herself and the team up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Collaborating with security, system control officers and auditors to identify and remediate possible gaps as a result of design, build or choice of technology.
• Building and maintaining a high performing engineering team.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders

Requirements

• Qualifications:
  • 6+ years of industry experience
  • Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
  • Professional certifications are a plus
  Experience:
  • The candidate should have practical knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
  • The candidate should be well versed in systems designs and build. Applying software architectural patterns and/or design patterns to engineering problems.
  • The candidate should have practical knowledge of programming. And should be an experienced user of at least one programming language. For example, React JS, ReactNative, Kotlin, Swift iOS, C#, Java, Python, etc.
  • The candidate should be aware and have practical knowledge of frameworks applicable in software development and to specific languages.
  • The candidate should be an expert at applying software development/engineering principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, Separation of Concern, Repository Pattern, Unit Of Work, etc.
  • Have experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS).
  • Have experience with the modern development practices such as CI/CD, continuous testing, observability, post-mortem, chaos engineering.
  • Have experience with software development processes, tools and languages such as Python, .NET, Mobile Development, relational and NoSQL databases, scripting, and Git.
  • Have experience with event-driven and distributed systems and the niche SaaS in the domain such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, etc.
  • Have experience with technologies such as Ansible, Terraform/Pulumi, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc.
  • Have experience with Kubernetes orchestration and management
  • Have working knowledge of monitoring and event management tool Implementations.
  • Strong knowledge of security and performance optimization
  
  Personal Attributes:
  • Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
  • Have a strong desire for learning and growth.
  • Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
  • Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
  • Are a team player
  • Have good time-management skills
  • Have great interpersonal and communication skills
  • Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment

Benefits

Why join Kuda?

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• Pension
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Group life insurance
• Health insurance
• L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option

Kuda are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.