Engineering Manager

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

We believe that technology is critical to building the most efficient rural distribution network on the African continent. Our passionate dev team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operation staff to register millions of farmers and their orders, optimize delivery truck loads and routes, track deliveries, collect mobile payments, and enable decision support solutions such as analyzing loan repayments.

Our tech stack is varied, but the system you'll be responsible for is the Odoo ERP which is coded in Python and heavily uses the JavaScript POS frontend. Our Odoo system runs on a containerized cloud environment in Kubernetes.

Our tooling landscape includes GitHub (and GitHub Actions) for CI/CD, JIRA, and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Report to engineering leadership
• Lead a 5-8 person development team working in Agile to reliably ship solutions
• Support our technology transformation efforts - modular, event-driven
• Relentlessly improve and refine our development processes and quality
• Mentor your team members and support their growth
• Nurture a great team culture

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You'll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You'll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 5+ years experience in building software solutions, including 2+ years in a leadership role
• Passion for quality and automation
• A desire to keep learning
• Comfortable with cloud-native technologies, architecture, and containerization
• Experienced Agile (scrum) practitioner - CSM/CSPO appreciated
• Proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with Odoo and ERP systems

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Nairobi, Kenya/ Kigali, Rwanda

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

9 November 2025. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an  address. Please report any suspicious communication here ), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization's mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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