We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us build the systems and tools that empower our small engineering team to move faster, build better, and scale globally.

• Drive improvements to our developer experience, making development, testing, and operation fast, reliable, and consistent.
• Evolve our Kubernetes-based backend architecture to optimise for performance, security, and productivity.
• Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and reliability practices.
• Take a proactive role in integrating AI tools into our workflows: whether it's using LLMs to augment coding, debugging, or documentation; or building small AI-enhanced tools for internal use.
• Jump into complex, team-spanning issues — from distributed bugs to deployment bottlenecks — and drive them to resolution with technical insight and cross-team coordination.
• Contribute to major strategic efforts like open-sourcing our platform by helping to decouple from vendor-specific dependencies.
• Collaborate with our Principal Engineer and the broader team to raise the bar on engineering quality, scalability, and autonomy.

• A strong foundation in software engineering with multiple years of hands-on platform engineering experience: building, running, and debugging production systems.
• Comfort owning and improving large technical areas independently, and an ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions.
• As a senior member of a small team, you'll be expected to mentor others, elevate standards, and proactively address issues.
• A desire to apply AI tools creatively to make your own work — and your teammates’ — more efficient.
• Excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to learn new tech or dive into unfamiliar systems.
• A focus on craft, clarity, and long-term maintainability — even when moving fast.

• A supportive, international team based in Kenya, Nigeria, and Germany, united by a mission and commitment to learning.
• An engineering culture grounded in craftsmanship, trust, and autonomy.
• Meaningful technical challenges: from scaling across low-end devices and unreliable connectivity to designing resilient, self-healing systems.
• A modern, evolving stack:
  • Tooling: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions
  • Backend: AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, microservices
  • Frontend: React, TypeScript, Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
• Openness to exploring and proposing new tools — whether open-source, cloud-native, or AI-powered.
• Three creative hackathon weeks per year, where you can explore bold new directions.
• A healthy work-life balance with flexible hours, an async-friendly culture that respects personal time and autonomy, and a hybrid setup (in-office once a week or more). We also support reduced working hours if requested (e.g. 32 rather than 40 hours per week).
• Transparent and fair salary bands — we believe everyone should be paid equitably, without needing to negotiate.
• A truly generous equity scheme.
• The chance to see your work in action through field visits to classrooms abroad.
• A rare opportunity to combine deep technical work with real-world global impact.