Director of Engineering

• Lead engineering strategy, architecture, delivery capacity, recruitment, performance management and leadership development.
• Guide the Azure-to-AWS migration with the DevOps lead and establish an AWS-focused operating model.
• Support experience teams for field officers, farmers and programme staff, and develop Farmer360 as the central farmer identity and CRM data layer.
• Set reliability practice, including SLOs and SLIs, incident response, post-mortems and SRE methods.
• Develop platform engineering, developer experience and continuous, outcome-led delivery.
• Work with Product, Data, InfoSec, IT Operations and programmes, communicate risks and priorities to senior leaders, and embed security and East African data-sovereignty requirements.

• Have 10+ years building software, including 5+ years in senior engineering leadership with delivery, hiring and people-development responsibility.
• Have deep practical AWS experience; leading a substantial cloud migration is an advantage.
• Know DORA-led engineering health, continuous delivery, SRE, platform engineering and developer experience.
• Be comfortable evaluating modern web, mobile and backend technologies, including TypeScript or React, Android offline-first patterns, and Java, Kotlin, Go, Node.js or Python.
• Have experience with transactional and analytical data systems, AI or ML in production, distributed multi-country delivery, information security and regulated environments.
• Candidates from, or with substantial work experience in, One Acre Fund programme countries are preferred; work-permit support is available.

The package includes health insurance, housing and comprehensive benefits.

Apply on the employer's application page by 7 December 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.