The role
It's an amazing time to join Okra. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure to build out the platform tooling and automation that our systems are scaling on.
As a senior engineer in the team, you will lead key initiatives around observability, infrastructure as code, multi-cloud, automation, and developer experience, as well as newly growing efforts in security, compliance, and platform availability.
You offer a breadth of experience in adopting cloud infrastructure, working across multiple cloud providers with a strong conviction to offer top developer experience, while you have a depth of expertise in one of the team's key areas at a level that sets the standard for the entire team.
Okra brings multiple years of experience in the African ecosystem, a diverse team working across continents, and a culture that puts customer focus, trust, idea-meritocracy and world-class execution front and center. You will own key initiatives, interact across teams, and see your impact.
What you will do:
- Automate infrastructure provisioning
- Maintain and optimize existing systems for performance and cost
- Implement and extend monitoring and alerting systems
- Improve developer experience of our infrastructure as code approach
- Help abstract complexities of cloud vendors and work across multi-cloud
- Help product engineering teams adopt DevOps culture
- Work with other teams to understand their needs and find solutions
- Help the team set ongoing goals and build roadmaps to achieve them
- Help automate quality checks to ensure engineering standards
- Explore and own new responsibility areas for the team
What will help you succeed:
- Multiple years of experience as a DevOps Engineers
- Hands-on experience with Terraform
- Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing multiple environments
- Experience working in environments with strict security and compliance requirements
- Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.
- Strong skills in troubleshooting and debugging in complex systems
- Ability to collaborate with both business and technical partners
- Strong experience using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Redshift
- Good understanding of Okra's current workloads that run stacks of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io
Nice to have:
- Experience with trunk-based development infrastructure
- Experience building out continuous delivery pipelines
- Applied understanding of secure-by-design approach
- Hands-on experience with developer productivity tooling and automations
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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
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As a senior engineer in the team, you will be responsible for leading key products and features, as well as initiatives to level up our overall software quality. You will be key in influencing your team members and fostering a world-class team by applying your skills and experience to build extensible, scalable, maintainable, performant, and secure financial systems.
What you will do:
- Take full technical ownership of one or more features or products
- Support product ideation with technical insight
- Help convert product requirements into a technical approach
- Help break down ambitious goals into small, actionable iterations
- Support architecture and development best practice decisions
- Help set new technical standards and lead their adoption
- Contribute to multiple frontend and backend repositories
- Review contributions from other team members and other teams
- Work with other teams to integrate with multiple systems
- Coach and mentor junior developers
What will help you succeed:
- Multiple years of experience as a Senior Full-stack Developer
- Good understanding of Okra's current stack of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io
- Deep expertise in at least one of the components of the Okra stack
- Hands-on experience in integrating with banks and other financial institutions
- Understanding of industry-specific regulations and best practices
- Understanding of established frontend, API, and database best practices
- Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.
- Strong skills in troubleshooting and debugging in complex systems
- Ability to collaborate with both business and technical partners
Nice to have:
- Experience with web and application scraping
- Experience working with and migrating to TypeScript
- Test-driven development experience
- Experience working with microservices and async integration patterns
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