Director of Engineering at Okra

The role

It's an amazing time to join Okra. We are looking for a seasoned engineering leader to join our engineering leadership team.

As one of the most senior engineering leaders in the team, you will work across multiple teams to drive alignment, strategy adoption, and continuous delivery. You will assume direct EM responsibility for one of our teams while supporting others through influence. You will be able to assess a variety of needs, recognize opportunities, and prioritize across challenges such as team-level goal setting, culture development, organizational structure, delivery velocity, budget management, team building, as well as individual coaching and mentoring.

You offer a breadth of combined experience in technical background and leadership experience, working with other leaders across organizations. You are intimately familiar with driving change and adoption, implementing a delivery mindset as well as applying lean, enabling tools and processes. You have a depth of expertise in a key relevant area that can directly impact one or more of speed, cost, and quality.

Okra brings multiple years of experience in the African ecosystem, a diverse team working across continents, and a culture that puts customer focus, trust, and idea-meritocracy front and center. You will get to work directly with our senior leaders, interact across teams, and see your impact.

What you will do:

• Take full EM responsibility of one of our teams
• Drive and influence delivery across multiple teams
• Drive continuous delivery implementation and adoption
• Own key initiatives across one or more of speed, cost, and quality
• Share your experience and knowhow with other engineering leaders
• Manage, coach, and mentor individual contributors as well as potential managers
• Assist and influence architecture and development best practices
• Help identify and observe core engineering metrics
• Help improve developer experience and overall productivity

What will help you succeed:

• Multiple years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Experience managing multiple teams
• Hands-on experience mapping products, domains, technology, and resources to teams
• Proven track record of owning engineering initiatives end-to-end
• Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.
• Ability to seamlessly switch between business and technical conversations
• Deep understanding of core team performance and developer productivity metrics
• Experience managing team-level infrastructure budgets

Nice to have:

• Experience managing managers
• Experience integrating and working with banks and financial institutions
• Understanding of low-level engineering and architecture best practices
• Familiarity with Okra's current stack of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io
• Experience working with distributed teams