<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Principal Mechanical Engineer to provide technical leadership for the mechanical designs for hardware products that make up KOKO’s clean fuel distribution network.</div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple hardware products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider cross functional technology team delivering best-in-class hardware and software solutions.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>As a domain leader in the area of mechanical engineering, oversee the complete life-cycle of our hardware products from design, documentation, test, deployment to continuous monitoring.</li><li>Lead new initiatives and best practices in the field of mechanical design engineering</li><li>Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to understand design requirements and provide strategic input into mechanical designs that meet such requirements</li><li>Researching new technologies and design concepts through self-driven initiatives to innovate our products</li><li>Help define test strategies / support building test rigs for R&amp;D, production and operational needs.</li><li>Serve as a technical authority representing mechanical design and enable confidence in everything we do in this area</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, mentor and guide junior engineers and instill engineering excellence into the team.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>10+ years of hands on experience in design engineering of Mechanical products (i.e. Hardware Products)</li><li>Strong track record developing  and delivering significant hardware products through to production.</li><li>Significant experience in materials, mainly in steel sheet metal &amp; plastics</li><li>Knowledge of mass / batch manufacturing processes for general engineering parts</li><li>Understanding of National &amp; International standards / guidelines for various mechanical products </li><li>Experience prototyping processes for metals &amp; plastics</li><li>Ability to conceptualise &amp; detail ideas using 3D CAD tools (Solidworks or similar) and 2D sketches. </li><li>Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, maintainability and cost effectiveness</li><li>Experience in design for global compliance standards (CE, CSA, UL, etc.)</li><li>Experience in working within cross-functional teams (Electronics, Software etc.)</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal.</li><li>Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.</li><div><br></div><div>Nice to haves</div><li>Use of CAE Tools for design analysis (Ansys /others)</li><li>Ingress / environmental protection</li><li>Familiar with Engineering Change Management</li><li>Knowledge of automated dispensing systems design for liquids and solids.</li><li>Knowledge of fuel distribution industry</li></ul><h3>What we offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Medicare for you and your family</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>If you share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact, we strongly encourage you to apply!</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

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Principal Mechanical Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As <a href="http://Sr.Tst">S</a>enior Test Engineer, you will be leading the team of test engineers; responsible for testing KOKO’s Bio-Ethanol based Cook Stove &amp; Canister. Your role includes design &amp; supervising execution of tests for our Cooker, Canister &amp; its components. The testing will be distributed across KOKO’s Product Test Lab at Gandhinagar, Nairobi &amp; third party labs. You will work closely with KOKO’s Design engineering team &amp; Product team for defining test protocols &amp; developing the right type of test hardware / equipment &amp; environment.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Understand product end use, environment &amp; typical operating conditions</li><li>Designing tests &amp; their detailed test protocols / procedures</li><li>Design formats for data collection &amp; test reports</li><li>Design/Source Test Rigs and Equipment required to carry out tests</li><li>Provide technical support to the team of Test Engineers &amp; Technicians during the tests</li><li>Publish test reports &amp; recommendations for Designers, Process engineers &amp; Product team</li><li>Maintain &amp; Upgrade KOKO’s in-house test Lab. </li></ul><h3>What you will bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li><b>Education</b>- Master of Engineering / Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical or Mechatronics</li><li><b>Experience</b>- 6-8 years</li><li><b>Background-</b> Must have worked in the Product Testing Department / Test Lab with similar Responsibilities</li><li><b>Industry</b>- Home appliances, Lab equipment, Consumer electronics or other relevant industries</li><li>Experience with testing of Cook stoves and/or Combustion process will be preferred</li><li>Expertise in Documentation with Charts, Tables etc. for effective communication &amp; documentation</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Hardware Test Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>You will be Leading a  team of Mechanical Engineers; responsible for Design &amp; Development of KOKO’s Bio-Ethanol based Cook Stove &amp; Canister. The cook stoves &amp; canisters are produced by KOKO at World’s largest ethanol stove production facility in Ahmedabad. Your role includes developing new products for emerging needs for newer markets while improving the existing products. The role demands a high level of technical expertise in engineering design / new product development with thorough understanding of Materials, Prototyping, Testing &amp; Familiarity with Large scale manufacturing technologies.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Provide Technical guidance &amp; support to design engineering team</li><li>Resource &amp; work planning for the ongoing design &amp; development projects</li><li>Take overall ownership for delivering the project on time and within scope</li><li>Engage with cross functional teams within KOKO (e.g Product, Manufacturing &amp; Service) on a regular basis</li><li>Troubleshooting of design challenges / issues </li><li>Coordinate with the support team within KOKO Labs for Prototyping &amp; Testing of the Existing &amp; Newly developed products</li></ul><h3>What you will bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li><b>Education</b>- Master of Engineering / Bachelor of Engineering : Mechanical or Tool &amp; Die Engineering as specialization</li><li><b>Experience</b>- 10-12 years</li><li><b>Background</b>- Must have worked in New product Development; involving tooled-up parts of sheet metal and/or plastics</li><li><b>Industry</b>- Home appliances, Lab equipment, Consumer electronics or other relevant industries</li><li>Working experience and understanding of CAD Simulation tools Understanding of different mass manufacturing technologies, processes, their capabilities &amp; limitations</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Team Lead - Hardware Engineering

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>You will be responsible for testing KOKO’s Bioethanol based cookstove and canister. Your role includes design and supervising execution of tests for our cooker, canister and its components. The testing will be distributed across KOKO’s Product Test Lab at Gandhinagar, Nairobi and third party labs. You will work closely with KOKO’s Design engineering team and product team for defining test protocols and developing the right type of test hardware/equipment and environment.</div><div><br></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Understand product and use, environment and typical operating conditions.</li><li>Designing tests and their detailed test protocols/procedures.</li><li>Design formats for data collection and test reports.</li><li>Design source test rigs and equipment required to carry out tests.</li><li>Independently conduct experiments and analyze data.</li><li>Provide technical support to the team of test engineers and technicians during the tests.</li><li>Provide test reports and recommendations for designers, engineers and product team.</li><li>Maintain and upgrade KOKO’s in house test lab.</li><li>Troubleshoot test equipment and processes to ensure accurate and reliable test results.</li><li>Continuously improve test methods and procedures to enhance efficiency and accuracy.</li><li>Stay up-to-date with industry trends, advancements, and best practices in mechanical testing.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field. Master’s degree preferred.</li><li>Proven experience (1-3 years) as a Mechanical Test Engineer or similar role in a manufacturing or R&amp;D environment.</li><li>Proficiency in mechanical testing techniques and methodologies.</li><li>Hands-on experience with testing equipment such as universal testing machines, environmental chambers, and data acquisition systems.</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret test data and draw meaningful conclusions.</li><li>Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.</li><li>Detailed knowledge of statistical tools.</li><li>Familiarity with relevant industry standards and regulations (e.g., ASTM, ISO) is a plus.</li><li>Experience with CAD software (<a href="http://e.gSolidWorks">e.gSolidWorks</a>) is desirable.</li><li>Knowledge of ANSYS/COMSOL is preferable.</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organization where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having a high impact through their work.</li><div><br></div><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Mechanical Test Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>As Network Operations Manager, you will be responsible for operating KOKO’s network of KOKO Points, which dispense clean cooking fuel across Rwanda. You will manage the end-to-end KOKO Point lifecycle from deployment and commissioning KOKO Points into new shops to ongoing maintenance, regulatory compliance, and hardware upgrades, to decommissioning and repairs. The ultimate goal of our Network Operations team is to maximize network coverage and up-time to ensure customers can access our fuel everyday, everywhere.</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Lead the core functions in Network Operations, including: assembly and deployment of KOKO Point units, network operations center, field maintenance and repairs and service center.</li><div><br></div><li>Work closely with other departments, including Agent Networks, Customer Care, Fuel Operations, Cooker Operations, and Engineering.</li><div><br></div><li>Design and refine core business processes and tools, including for deployment, civil works, commissioning, sealing, network monitoring, incident management, and proactive maintenance.</li><div><br></div><li>Proactively identify risks to network uptime and customer experience, and develop and execute plans to minimize that risk.</li><div><br></div><li>Provide feedback to KOKO’s Product and Engineering teams on causes of network disruptions and KOKO Point hardware issues, and analyse network data to formulate suggestions to improve uptime.</li><div><br></div><li>Manage the information capture and resolution of KOKO Point tickets, ensuring that accurate and precise information is captured at each step of the issue life-cycle.</li><div><br></div><li>Own and manage the database of product defects arising from KOKO Point network and other tickets, acting as the single point of contact for the Engineering and Product teams.</li><div><br></div><li>Hire, train, coach, and manage direct reports and subcontractors to achieve key performance indicators on set requirements, quality, and safety, while building a deep bench of future company leaders and a strong performance culture.</li><div><br></div><li>Maintain customer satisfaction through professional conduct and engagements while ensuring an effective interface with other departmental staff is maintained.</li><div><br></div><li>Ensure that the function operates in accordance with respective Health, Safety and Environmental and company policies and procedures</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>University degree in Engineering or relevant technical field. Technical knowledge of mechatronic systems or communication technology is an added advantage</li><li>3+ years of experience in a related field, with a track record of high performance</li><li>1+ years of management experience building and mentoring teams</li><li>Knowledge of ticketing systems and escalation processes</li><li>Ability to work autonomously and think on your feet</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Strong data analysis and synthesis skills</li><li>Ownership mindset and the ability to solve complex problems</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Manager, Network Operations

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for experienced full stack engineers to lead development of our cloud based software products, and be responsible for major technical decisions associated with them accountable for their successful execution. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the software engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to many customer and internal facing products. KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and deploy web-based front-end applications and back-end services</li><li>Lead the delivery of software projects in a team-based environment </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, project managers and other engineers to to define, design, scope and ship new features using elegant solutions.</li><li>Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.</li><li>Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.</li><li>Help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews</li><li>Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO</li><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, <a href="http://vue.js/">Vue.js</a>, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git</div></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least four years experience developing applications at enterprise scale using the front and back end technologies in our stack</li><li>Ability to translate user experience design (mockups, wireframes and user journeys) into code using CSS and scripting frameworks </li><li>Ability to develop robust and scalable backend services defined by RESTful APIs in Python</li><li>Familiarity with Cloud/ SaaS architectures and how to build secure and maintainable services</li><li>Strong understanding of unit testing, design patterns and usage of tools like profilers</li><li>Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)</li><li>Worked in an Agile multi-functional team </li><li>Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers</li><li>Great oral and written communication skills</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li></ul><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Full Stack Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for experienced full stack engineers to lead development of our cloud based software products, and be responsible for major technical decisions associated with them accountable for their successful execution. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the software engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to many customer and internal facing products. KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and deploy web-based front-end applications and back-end services</li><li>Lead the delivery of software projects in a team-based environment </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, project managers and other engineers to to define, design, scope and ship new features using elegant solutions.</li><li>Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.</li><li>Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.</li><li>Help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews</li><li>Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO</li><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, <a href="http://vue.js/">Vue.js</a>, Postgres, Redis, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git</div></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least four years experience developing applications at enterprise scale using the front and back end technologies in our stack</li><li>Ability to translate user experience design (mockups, wireframes and user journeys) into code using CSS and scripting frameworks </li><li>Ability to develop robust and scalable backend services defined by RESTful APIs in Python</li><li>Familiarity with Cloud/ SaaS architectures and how to build secure and maintainable services</li><li>Strong understanding of unit testing, design patterns and usage of tools like profilers</li><li>Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)</li><li>Worked in an Agile multi-functional team </li><li>Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers</li><li>Great oral and written communication skills</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li></ul><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div>We're hiring an experienced Data Quality Engineer to ensure the accuracy and reliability of our data systems. In this role, you will contribute to developing test scripts, enhancing automated testing frameworks, and collaborating closely with development teams. Your expertise in data models, ETL architecture, and automation testing will drive the quality and integrity of our data-driven solutions.</div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Test  and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Test ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Ensure logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Help validate systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, <a href="http://Vue.js">Vue.js</a>, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git</div></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>5-8 years of strong experience in QA/testing or application development</li><li>Strong in Database and ETL testing</li><li>Strong at preparing the test plan and ensure that test plans get reviewed by all stakeholders and strong in peer reviews.</li><li>Strong command of Essential technologies: SQL scripting, PL/SQL.</li><li>ETL Testing from various feeds on server (S3, SQL ,HIVE, Data Bricks, SnowFlake) using different testing strategy to ensure the data quality and data consistency, timeliness</li><li>Having knowledge on large-scale data processing languages like pyspark is a plus.</li><li>Strong command of any Programmatic Language (Python preferred)</li><li>Knowledge of API Testing</li><li>Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, QA methodologies, defect management system, and documentation.</li><li>Experience in automation, automation frameworks and automation delivery preferred.</li><li>Understanding of of PyTest, Unitest, Behave and Mock Test wil be an added advantage</li><li>Good at setting Quality standards in various new testing technologies in the industry.</li><li>Excellent analytical and communication skill is required</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><li>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Data Quality Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Data Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a motivated engineer who is passionate about data and who will lay the foundation for more effective and efficient data management, analytics, and developing insights in business strategy, operations planning, and product design.</div><div><br></div><div>As one of our first data engineers, you’ll work with our Business, Analytics, Product and other Engineering teams to enable them to do more with KOKO’s data, and faster.  You’ll formulate a strategy for our data processing and data stores, and own implementation and maintenance of these designs, ensuring continued high performance and availability.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role. IoT and real time data processing feature heavily in our technology suite.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams</li><li>Build logical and understandable data models and data stores to house data from KOKO’s various live products and other diverse data sources for consumption by other teams</li><li>Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate &amp; up to date</li><li>Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service use of KOKO’s data (create tools that assist teams in this process).</li><li>Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions</li><li>As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers</li><li>Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives</li><li>Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field</li><li>Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.</li><li>A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets</li><li>Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing</li><li>Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)</li><li>Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement</li><li>Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets</li><li>Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations</li><li>Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure</li><li>Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices</li><li>Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams</li></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development of firmware for KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other goods through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them. </li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products.</li><li>Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks</li><li>Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systems</li><li>Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.</li><li>Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Strong, proven experience coding (5+ years) and good design principles in C/C++ for embedded systems</li><li>Solid and demonstrable understanding of Linux and programming for Linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi)</li><li>Experience programming in both RTOS and bare metal environments</li><li>Ability to developing and debug low level protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI) and higher level communication protocols (e.g. BLE, USB)</li><li>Strong troubleshooting skills for investigating reported issues, debugging and fixing field problems</li><li>Knowledge of IoT “edge” device development and strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP, MQTT) and interfaces (TCP/IP, TLS)</li><li>Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines</li><li>A good grasp of electronics - ability to read schematics and data sheets</li><div><br></div><div>Other skills:</div><li>Experience in developing commercial products - proven experience developing for hardware at scale</li><li>Strong analytical skills, working with engineering best practices to get the best results</li><li>Team player, conscientious and with a strong collaborative ethos</li><div><br></div><div>We are looking for a highly technical leader with significant experience in scaling and maintaining complex, mission critical systems, and making key architectural decisions along the way.  Aside from being an expert in your core skills areas, you should be comfortable leading and coaching, building rapport across the team, doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.</div></ul><h3>What We Offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Health insurance</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

<div><b>About KOKO Networks</b></div><div>KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC. </div><div><br></div><div><b>Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div>As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to build and manage part of our growing team of engineers, be responsible for ensuring high standards are maintained and projects are successfully executed.  As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion beyond to new countries. </div><div><br></div><div>In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute and add value across key areas of KOKO's product suite, through individual contribution, and equally importantly through bringing strong leadership and direction.</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key.</div><br><br><h3>What you will do</h3><ul><li>You will have responsibility for the activities and output of one or more engineering teams across multiple products, with team leads and other individual contributors reporting to you.</li><li>You will ensure the smooth and predictable execution of complex deliverables in accordance with KOKO’s quality standards across all relevant areas.</li><li>You will define and improve on Engineering KPIs on a periodic basis based on feedback from other stakeholders in the Company </li><li>You will be responsible for continually raising and maintaining engineering standards at their highest levels to enable technology innovation and software delivery.</li><li>You will review technical designs, and ensure they will be scalable and robust.</li><li>You will be responsible for the technical competence of your teams, guiding and growing that competence as necessary via training and hiring.</li><li>You will ensure the use of best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD across teams and projects, and help others to improve the quality of their work.</li><li>You will define organisational and development roadmaps to align with delivery strategies, to ensure product and business objectives are met, balancing immediate and long-term deliverables with technical debt and strategic technical development.</li><li>You will guide the goal-setting process for their teams, helping them articulate goals that support both business initiatives and technology and organisational quality</li><li>You will contribute to architecture and design efforts and ensure they are well aligned with product and business needs and objectives.</li><li>You will build the engineering culture at KOKO, ensuring it is positioned to attract similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle some of the hardest challenges.</li><div><br></div><div>KOKO’s current technology stack includes (but is not limited to):  AWS, Python, Flask, <a href="http://Vue.js">Vue.js</a>, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git</div></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Three or more years of experience directly managing software engineers and 8+ years of experience in software engineering overall.</li><li>Strong track record leading, developing, and delivering significant software projects</li><li>Significant experience in the following areas: enterprise application and service based architectures, software design patterns, messaging protocols, cyber security, distributed application development, modern front-end design, highly scalable data architectures.</li><li>Well developed skills in designing for testability, reliability, security and maintainability.</li><li>Evangelist for Agile practices, able to work closely with product leaders to support engineering team members in delivering in an agile manner to achieve key goals.</li><li>Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure.</li><li>Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.</li><li>You are strongly motivated by seeing high quality outcomes delivered, and hold yourself personally accountable, jumping in and taking ownership of problems as needed to ensure the desired outcomes.</li></ul><h3>What we offer</h3><ul><li>Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus</li><li>Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work</li><li>Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)</li><li>21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave</li><li>Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely</li><li>Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses</li><li>The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop</li><div><br></div><div>We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.</div></ul><br><div>If you share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact, we strongly encourage you to apply!</div><div><br></div><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

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