<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>The Role</b></div><div>As a Senior Software Engineer at KOKO Labs, you will play a pivotal role in leading and delivering innovative software solutions that reshape urban living. Reporting to the Head of Software &amp; Systems, you'll lead a nimble team of up to 4 engineers, embodying agility, mentorship, and innovation. Your work will span web, mobile, and IoT projects, emphasizing rapid prototyping, flexibility, and end-to-end systems thinking.</div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of both front-end and back-end components of our software projects, ensuring they align with KOKO Labs' vision.</li><li>Manage and mentor a team of software engineers, fostering an environment of continuous learning and improvement.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally within the Labs team and with external stakeholders to ideate, develop, and refine technology-based solutions.</li><li>Ensure the flexibility and testability of software systems, prioritizing quick iteration and user feedback over scalability.</li><li>Contribute to the Labs leadership by engaging in strategic discussions, prototype evaluation, and the overall innovation process.</li><li>Continuously learn and share knowledge within the team, enhancing our collective expertise and fostering an environment of innovation.</li><li>Develop and manage projects utilizing a diverse tech stack including Next.js, Flutter, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, and cloud services (GCP, Azure, AWS, Vercel).</li><li>Implement Agile, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies tailored to project needs, ensuring effective and efficient project management.</li><div>Technology Stack</div><li>Our diverse tech stack includes AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git, and more. Experience across these technologies, coupled with the ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new tools, is crucial.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring</h3><ul><li>A passion for innovation, entrepreneurship, and a drive to make a tangible impact on urban living.</li><li>At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with a broad rather than deep expertise across various technologies.</li><li>Proven leadership experience, with at least 2 years in a role directly leading software engineering teams.</li><li>Strong foundation in software engineering principles, including design for flexibility, reliability, security, and maintainability.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving skills, with a flair for creative and efficient solutions.</li><li>Effective communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>A collaborative spirit, adept at working in an agile environment alongside a diverse team.</li><div><br></div><div><b>Technical Skills and Qualifications:</b></div><li>Extensive experience in software development, with expertise in web and mobile.</li><li>Proficiency in some of Next.js, Flutter, TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Big Query, Google Analytics, Domo, JetAdmin, PostgreSQL, Firebase, and major cloud services.</li><li>Demonstrated leadership ability, with a strong focus on mentorship and team development.</li><li>Adept at problem-solving, innovation, and agile development practices.</li><li>Experience in Agile, Scrum, and Kanban, with a passion for raising engineering standards, pace of delivery, and quality support.</li></ul><br><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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Senior 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>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>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 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><b style="font-size:12pt;">Your Role</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">We at KOKO are passionate about building products that help make people's lives better. As we expand our services within and outside Kenya, we are looking for a qualified Front-end developer to join our Software Engineering team, to help build and enhance our customer-facing <a href="http://projects.You">projects.You</a> will be responsible for building the front-end applications of our organization. You should be able to translate our company and customer needs into functional and appealing interactive applications. We expect you to be a tech-savvy professional, who is curious about new digital technologies and aspires to combine usability with visual <a href="http://design.You">design.You</a> should be able to create a functional and attractive digital environment for our company, ensuring a great user experience.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages</li><li>Maintain and improve WordPress and similar websites</li><li>Optimize applications for maximum speed</li><li>Design mobile-compatible components</li><li>Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability</li><li>Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers</li><li>Write functional requirement documents and guides</li><li>Create quality mockups and prototypes</li><li>Help back-end developers with coding and troubleshooting</li><li>Ensure high-quality graphic standards and brand consistency</li><li>Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies</li><li>Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li><br></li><div>We are looking for a highly technical individual contributor with significant experience in building customer-facing websites using WordPress or similar technology. Knowledge about integration with external systems would be important. You should be comfortable collaborating and leading projects in a remote environment, building rapport across the team, and doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.</div><div><br></div><li>Three or more years of experience as a front-end developer.</li><li>Hands-on experience with markup languages</li><li>Experience with JavaScript, CSS, and jQuery</li><li>Familiarity with browser testing and debugging</li><li>In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)</li><li>Good understanding of hosting and deployment.</li><li>Understanding of layout aesthetics</li><li>Knowledge of SEO principles</li><li>Familiarity with software like Adobe Suite, Photoshop, and content management systems</li><li>An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment</li><li>Excellent analytical and multitasking skills</li><li>Understanding of the Linux operating system, networking, and databases.</li><li>BSc degree in Computer Science or relevant field</li><div><br></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>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Front-End 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, 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>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 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>

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><br><br><h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><li>Introduce Industrial Engineering concepts &amp; techniques through analysis, and decision tools to promote and implement changes in manufacturing processes</li><li>Support Production teams for continuous improvement and drive process improvement workshops</li><li>Improve process control to manufacture defect free products</li><li>Integrate safety and ergonomics principles in manufacturing processesLead team of KPI improvement (yield, cycle time, downtime, productivity, quality) for responsible products and perform continuous improvement activities</li><li>Conduct Design of experiment, data collecting including analysis to make improvement and/or modification</li><li>Help Management to understand the weekly, monthly poor yielding processes or bottleneck processes and formulate the improvement planControl full process flow, final design of new product/process/tooling transfer from development phase/engineering to mass production</li><li>Perform Line optimization study covering motion, line balancing, Cycle time mapping, ergonomics factors, VSM, Takt Time and proposing the balanced line Layouts</li><li>Should have knowledge of factory layout using software (industrial layout)</li></ul><h3>Requirements</h3><ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical/ Production/ Industrial Engineering </li><li>At least 5 years’ experience in Production or Manufacturing Engineering preferably from automotive high volume manufacturing environment</li><li>Proven track record of handling KAIZEN, LEAN,Process Improvement projects</li><li>Having Knowledge of Projection , spot welding,assembly line balancing would be a plus point</li><li>Problem-solving, strong Decision making and good analytical skills</li><li>Experience in Solidworks and AutoCAD a must</li><li>Good in English communication</li><li>Ability work in shift</li></ul><br><div>KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!</div>

Industrial 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 style="font-size:10pt;">Your Role</b></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">As Data Science Manager, you will be expected to bring a strong culture of algorithmic problem-solving and statistical modeling into KOKO’s business decisions across all functions and countries.</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Responsible for building the roadmap for Data Science projects for KOKO with conceptualization, planning and execution of high impact priorities</li><li>Responsible for building analytical systems, algorithms and predictive models, as well as experimenting with new models and techniques</li><li>Ensure that data projects align with organizational goals</li><li>Teach, lead, and counsel colleagues on new techniques and data-based solutions</li><li>Collaborate with data and software engineers to enable deployment of sciences and technologies that will scale across the company’s ecosystem</li><li>Responsible for overseeing teams of data scientists, data specialists and interns with scale-up</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Master's degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, Statistics or related technical field</li><li>6 to 8 years of experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches</li><li>Experience communicating quantitative analysis results, especially to business stakeholders</li><li>Experience in managing, mentoring and coaching small teams</li></ul><h3>Technical skills expected in the role - must have</h3><ul><li>Programming: Python (Preferred) / R</li><li>Proficiency in relational databases and SQL querying</li><li>Proficiency in working with Excel / Google Sheets (knowledge of data read &amp; write connectors)</li><li>Deep understanding and experience with implementing of ML models in at least some of the techniques from each of the following buckets: </li><div>				Regression: Linear, Logistic, Multinomial, Mixed effect</div><div>				Classification: Bagging &amp; Boosting (Random Forest), Decision tree, SVM</div><div>				Clustering: K-Means, hierarchical, DB-Scan</div><div>				Time series: ARIMA, SARIMA, ARIMAX, Holt-Winters, Multi TS (VAR), UCM</div><div>				Neural Networks: RNN, CNN, (Deep learning), Naive Bayes</div><li>Dimensionality Reduction: PCA, SVD, etc.</li><li>Optimization Techniques: Linear programming, Gradient Descent, Genetic Algorithm</li><li>Cloud: Understanding of Azure / AWS offerings, Setting up ML pipeline in cloud </li></ul><h3>Technical skills expected in the role - nice to have</h3><ul><li>Visualization: Domo / Tableau / Power BI / Looker / QlikView</li><li>Data Management: HDFS, Spark, Advanced Excel</li><li>Agile Tools: Azure DevOps, JIRA</li><li>Development experience with PysparkBig Data/Hive Database</li><li>IDE: Pycharm</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, Data Science - Pune, India / Nairobi, Kenya

<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>

Software Engineering Manager

<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><span style="font-size:11pt;">KOKO Labs is the research and development arm of KOKO.  From ideas to reality, through user research, iterative design, and commercial development, KOKO Labs helps us imagine and deliver transformative technology-based solutions. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">KOKO Labs’ dedicated team of entrepreneurs, researchers, designers and engineers work out of purpose-built facilities in Nairobi (Kenya), Pune, gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (India) partnering closely with technical, commercial, academic and regulatory experts from around the world.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">KOKO Labs is seeking an Industrial Designer to join our dynamic and innovative team. As an Industrial Designer, you will play a key role in designing and developing innovative products for different Program Areas under Labs. The successful candidate will have a passion for design, a strong eye for detail, a research mindset, ability to work on hazy briefs, and a desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced environment.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;">We build and test out projects quickly and they vary in type and reach. We work in a collaborative team and the culture helps you to build your own niche and allows exploring your skills in domains to want to grow in. This means the designer is never bored - you’ll be working on a range of projects - from User research, Industrial Design, Usability testing and even designing the entire product ecosystem. All you need is a good sense of design and a willingness to learn</span></div><br><br><h3>What You Will Do</h3><ul><li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and create innovative industrial designs for our products.</li><li>Generate detailed design specifications, including 3D models, prototypes, and technical drawings.</li><li>Conduct research to understand market trends, user needs, and competitive products.</li><li>Work closely with engineering teams to ensure the feasibility and manufacturability of designs.</li><li>Participate in design reviews, provide constructive feedback, and iterate on designs based on feedback.</li><li>Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and materials to incorporate into design concepts.</li><li>Ensure all design work is delivered on time, within budget, and meets the highest quality standards.</li></ul><h3>What You Will Bring to KOKO</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Industrial Design or a related field.</li><li>2-5 years of relevant experience in industrial design.</li><li>Strong portfolio showcasing a range of industrial design projects.</li><li>Proficiency in industry-standard design tools and software.</li><li>Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.</li><li>Ability to work independently, manage multiple projects simultaneously, and meet deadlines.</li></ul><br><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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