Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Angaza 34 views

Position: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About Angaza
Angaza enables businesses to sell life-changing products, on credit, to low-income, unbanked consumers in emerging markets. Our technology uses an IoT network of connected devices, mobile payments, and machine learning to accelerate the adoption of solar energy systems, smartphones, and appliances.

We are reinventing consumer credit by making it available to the 2 billion people across the globe who are unbanked or left out of formal credit/savings ecosystems. With Angaza, consumers have the flexibility to buy now and pay later (BNPL), with full pricing transparency. And, merchants can increase their sales and revenue by over 8x by offering life-changing products on credit, without taking on the risk or complexities of managing consumer financing.

Angaza’s B2B sales and customer management software is used by businesses across the globe to improve the daily lives of over 35 million people.

Role Summary: Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Angaza is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of relevant work experience to be the founding team member of our Infrastructure and Platform team. You will apply your engineering skills to improve our platform’s performance, resilience, and security. Your work will empower Angaza’s product development engineers to build and scale our application without needing to work across the full infrastructure stack.

Candidates must be based in Nairobi, Kenya and work overlapping hours with our U.S. team, 17:00 to 20:30 East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).

What You’ll Do

30 days

• Understand our infrastructure architecture; how it is deployed, how it scales, how we monitor it, and how it fails
• Roll out small infrastructure changes such as updating a build script, terraforming a security patch, and creating new metrics or alerts

• Become an incident first responder on our platform incident rotation
• Begin working on a key infrastructure project, such as migrating compute workloads to Docker, or introducing redundancy at a single point of failure

• Complete the roll out of one or more significant projects
• Begin to champion the engineering team’s processes and practices by creating documentation, contributing to developer tools, and coaching engineers on best practices
• Take a leadership role in developing the infrastructure and platform team’s roadmap

We’re Looking For Someone With…

• 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure on AWS using modern infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Significant experience with one or more key pieces of our AWS infrastructure, such as ECS/Docker, RDS/Postgres, and AWS network configuration
• Significant experience building, deploying, running, monitoring, and debugging Python applications with high uptime requirements, and able to pass a programming interview in Python
• Experience managing multiple pre-production environments and owning the CI/CD tooling to automate updates to each environment
• Experience building, designing, and testing disaster recovery playbooks
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Energy and enthusiasm to contribute to the team and company
• Exemplifies Angaza’s core values of empathy, teamwork, courage, innovation, and impact

Our Stack

• Backend: Python with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and Celery
• Infrastructure: AWS with PostgreSQL, EC2, Lambda, and friends managed through Terraform
• Frontend: modern JS with React/Redux
• Mobile: Android with Kotlin

Other Details
Angaza is a for-profit company with headquarters in Nairobi and San Francisco. Kenyan employees work remotely, with the option to work from a co-working space in Nairobi. Attendance at monthly team meetups in Nairobi is expected.
Kenyan employees receive salary and competitive benefits that include:
– Company-sponsored private medical plan
– Pension plan with company contribution
– Flexible scheduling and time off policies
– Knowledge that you’re making a positive impact on the world every day you come to work!

Our Commitment to DEI
At Angaza, we evaluate all candidates on the basis of their ability to meet stated job requirements. We do not discriminate against candidates on the basis of sex, gender, marital status, religion, nationality, or other personal characteristics. In keeping with our commitment to supporting a safe and inclusive workplace, we strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds to apply.