Head of Engineering

Job Summary

While we may look like an operationally heavy business, technology lies at the core of Peach Cars. (Indeed, our registered business name is Peach Tech. Limited!). We view technology as an enabler of all things we care about as a business and the method by which we are able to deliver on our core value proposition of information and peace of mind to customers. Up to present, Peach Cars has worked with external providers to build out and maintain our tech stack, inclusive of a public website, internal tooling, and more. We’re at a positive inflection point of the business, though, and our needs are outpacing the ability of external providers to deliver results in an effective, timely manner. As such, we’ve decided to bring product efforts in-house and the Head of Engineering role will not only be the first technical hire at Peach Cars, but someone we’re looking to to build and lead a joint technology / product team that will build innovative, elegant products to support our value creation and delivery to customers in new and exciting ways. The Head of Engineering will be responsible for leading strategy, development and deployment of new technical products whilst managing the growing product team at Peach. This role is part strategic, part management. We’re looking for someone with 7-10 years experience and vast knowledge of hardware and software to fulfill the duties of the role.

Job Details

Tech / product strategy (incl. infrastructure/architecture, systems, security)

• Act as the systems manager from 50,000 ft view as well as on the ground; innovating for a robust, secure, and scalable tech stack sitting at the heart of Peach
• Work with Peach leadership, tech / product team, and other relevant stakeholders to build and maintain a product architecture that is scalable, secure, and robust
• Work with Peach leadership and other, external stakeholders and inspiration to come up with innovative and potentially impactful ideas for internal and external-facing products, whether iterations on existing products or blue sky-style opportunities / ideas - both software only and joint, software/hardware innovations
• Provide technical support for policy or regulatory-related matters of compliance and risk-reduction
• Create technology standards and practices within the organization and ensure they are adhered to
• Have an understanding of and be able to integrate hardware and software systems for harmonious implementation and use

Project / product management

• Manage the product cycle at Peach Cars, including all product / project design, development, deployment, review and iteration (as needed) - with both internal and external stakeholders

Codebase management / strategic implementation

• Establish new / maintain existing processes and standards to ensure high-quality software development. Implement best practices for maintaining code quality and test coverage.
• As needed, by workload or strategic importance, write code 

People management

• Oversee day to day duties of all team members including tooling, personnel career growth, budgeting and collaboration with other teams, through weekly reviews
• Setting KPIs to guide business and people management, and scoping the roles and responsibilities for new hires
• Ensure team members have growth and development within the team 

Business strategy and executive leadership

• As a member of the executive team at Peach Cars, you will be responsible for engaging in other, technology and non-technology related matters such as regular strategy and planning sessions, OKR design and implementation, communication with specific teams, the whole Peach team, investors, advisors, and other external audiences 
• Contribute to the future of Peach Cars apart from tech / product development ~ help make and remake strategy and operations across the business units, problem-solving for challenges and acting thoughtfully but nimbly to take advantage of opportunities  

Requirements

Requirements 

• Have excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
• Have experience in web and mobile development
• Comprehend both front-end and back-end development
• Minimum 7-10 years of experience in product development and team management
• Be emotionally intelligent, humble and excited to work within a team with a diverse set of

experiences and skills

• Be highly proactive and have ability to find solutions  
• Knowledgeable in the following technologies: Python / REST API’s / VueJS.

Benefits

Peach Benefits 

• Competitive Salary 
• Health insurance cover 
• Flexible work plan/ hybrid work plan 
• Business related expenses covered, including…
  • Transportation during work hours / for work purposes fully covered
  • Airtime and data used for work purposes fully covered

Peach Core Values 

Peach Cars is a values-driven organization. If you are interested in this role, please be prepared to speak to the following values, including how you understand them and would put them into practice in your efforts day-to-day.

• Ownership ~ Complete work is the expectation; going above and beyond is who we are and what we do 
• Respect ~ Communication is key and this is always done in a respectful manner, no matter how difficult; as a team, we may disagree but we commit
• Challenge ~ As a company, we are anti comfort zones; Peach is a place for learning and growth

About Company

Peach Tech Limited

https://peachcars.co.ke/

<p>Peach is building the infrastructure to power improved trust, transparency, and customer experience in the growing used-vehicle market across Sub-Saharan Africa to revolutionize car ownership.</p>