Engineering Manager at One Acre Fund
Position Title: Engineering Manager
Employer: One Acre Fund
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Kigali, Nairobi - Kenya, Rwanda
Posted date: 1 month ago
Deadline: November, 09/2025 (25 days left)
About the Role
We believe that technology is critical to building the most efficient rural distribution network on the African continent. Our passionate dev team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operation staff to register millions of farmers and their orders, optimize delivery truck loads and routes, track deliveries, collect mobile payments, and enable decision support solutions such as analyzing loan repayments.
Our tech stack is varied, but the system you'll be responsible for is the Odoo ERP which is coded in Python and heavily uses the JavaScript POS frontend. Our Odoo system runs on a containerized cloud environment in Kubernetes.
Our tooling landscape includes GitHub (and GitHub Actions) for CI/CD, JIRA, and Azure.
Responsibilities
- Report to engineering leadership
- Lead a 5-8 person development team working in Agile to reliably ship solutions
- Support our technology transformation efforts - modular, event-driven
- Relentlessly improve and refine our development processes and quality
- Mentor your team members and support their growth
- Nurture a great team culture
Career Growth and Development
We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
- 5+ years experience in building software solutions, including 2+ years in a leadership role
- Passion for quality and automation
- A desire to keep learning
- Comfortable with cloud-native technologies, architecture, and containerization
- Experienced Agile (scrum) practitioner - CSM/CSPO appreciated
- Proficiency in Python
- Familiarity with Odoo and ERP systems
Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Nairobi, Kenya/ Kigali, Rwanda
Benefits
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits
Eligibility
One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.
