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Talent Safari is dedicated to connecting Africa's best talent with innovative startups, facilitating quality-first hiring with a focus on customer success. The company expertly finds high-quality, vetted candidates for startups within two weeks, allowing clients to focus on their growth. With a team that has startup expertise and a vast community of professionals in various fields, Talent Safari provides an efficient recruitment process while ensuring satisfaction through a 90-day probation guarantee.

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• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environment
• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams.
• Work on cross-team initiatives to improve the applications and systems.
• Work in a cross-functional team to design, build, and deliver new features for our systems.
• Strive to reduce the complexity of the systems.
• Create awareness of engineering efforts and achievements.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to drive success.

Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager leading innovative software solutions for millions of Paystack users. Guiding engineering teams in a fast-paced, competitive environment across Africa.

people-operations

• Design and continuously evolve Numida’s org structure to support ambitious and fast growth, product expansion, and geographic scale
• Define roles, spans of control, decision rights, and accountability across teams
• Lead workforce planning in partnership with Finance and functional leaders
• Support reorganisations and change management with clarity and care
• Translate Numida’s values into observable leadership behaviors and role model our way of working and expectations for leaders
• Act as a steward of culture during growth, reorganisation, and change
• Maintain employee engagement and trust through transparency and fairness
• Build and roll out a practical manager framework (expectations, rhythms, feedback, performance)
• Coach senior leaders and people managers
• Design leadership development interventions that are lightweight but effective
• Design performance management systems that reinforce accountability and outcomes
• Build clear career paths and progression frameworks that retain high performers and provide visibility of growth paths across the organization
• Lead succession planning for critical roles
• Ensure underperformance is addressed early and fairly
• Build simple, robust HR systems, policies, and processes that scale across countries
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and governance requirements across our geographies
• Establish reliable people data and dashboards to support decision-making and insights that build trust in the people function
• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, compensation frameworks, and cost discipline to remove operational frictions

Head of People & Culture

Head of People & Culture at Numida building HR frameworks to support 100,000+ businesses across Africa. Designing scalable people systems to enable growth and accountability in leadership.

full-stack-engineer

• Lead full-stack development across backend services, data models, and frontend interfaces, ensuring alignment with Share’s vision for a new internet.
• Define technical roadmap and drive execution in Linear while building a scalable, secure system design.
• Architect and implement performant backend services for a highly integratable system powering billing, subscription management, and telecom-grade reliability.
• Integrate and optimize large-scale B2B platform databases (SQL + NoSQL), ensuring low-latency analytics and seamless multi-tenant scalability.
• Design and maintain robust data pipelines and models supporting real-time analytics, monitoring, and cross-system synchronization across the organization.

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer developing infrastructure for a fully automated, software-defined ISP ecosystem in Africa. Collaborating on backend services and integrating databases for telecom-grade reliability.

systems-engineer

• Design and deploy virtualization platforms (Proxmox, KVM) across distributed PoPs
• Manage Kubernetes clusters for platform services and microservices deployments
• Architect storage systems (Ceph, ZFS, TrueNAS) for network telemetry, logs, and operational data
• Build and maintain AAA infrastructure (FreeRADIUS backed by Percona MySQL cluster) supporting thousands of concurrent subscribers
• Implement core services: DNS, NTP, syslog, DHCP, IPAM
• Deploy and optimize time-series databases (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) for network metrics at scale
• Design data pipelines that feed AI/ML models for network automation
• Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
• Design unified data architectures that bridge physical infrastructure (fiber, devices, PoPs), logical network state (IP allocations, routing, VLANs), and operational telemetry into coherent, queryable systems
• Build data pipelines that correlate network events with billing and SLA compensation workflows
• Build the telemetry and observability stack that enables intelligent network management
• Instrument systems to generate training data for predictive maintenance and anomaly detection
• Work with the team to deploy AI models that automate fault detection, capacity planning, and traffic optimization
• Create feedback loops between network events and automated remediation systems
• Develop infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform) for repeatable deployments across markets
• Implement comprehensive monitoring (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, LibreNMS, Graylog)
• Build alerting systems that reduce NOC workload through intelligent triage
• Create tooling for automated provisioning of partner ISP infrastructure
• Design internal tools as extensible platforms - monitoring, provisioning, and analytics systems you build will be productized and offered to partner ISPs on our backbone

Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer owning compute, storage, and platform infrastructure for Share's automated ISP network. Building systems for AI-driven operations and real-time telemetry across markets.

data-engineer

• Architect and sustain scalable ETL workflows, guaranteeing consistency and accuracy across diverse data origins.
• Refine and optimize data models and database structures specifically tailored for reporting and analytics.
• Enforce industry best practices regarding data warehousing and storage methodologies.
• Fine-tune data systems to handle the demands of both real-time streams and batch processing.
• Manage the cloud data environment, utilizing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Coordinate with software engineers to embed data solutions directly into our product suite.
• Design robust processes for ingesting both structured and unstructured datasets.
• Script automated quality checks and deploy monitoring instrumentation to instantly detect data anomalies.
• Build APIs and services that ensure seamless data interoperability between systems.
• Continuously monitor pipeline health, troubleshooting bottlenecks to maintain an uninterrupted data flow.
• Embed data governance and security protocols that meet rigorous industry standards.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to maximize the usability and accessibility of our data assets.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation covering schemas, transformations, and pipeline architecture.
• Keep a pulse on emerging trends in cloud tech, analytics, and data engineering to drive continuous improvement.

Data Engineer

Data Engineer leading data foundation architecture and optimization for a Kenyan startup. Constructing data pipelines that fuel machine learning models and internal analytics.

backend-engineer

• Development, deployment & maintenance of complex software systems and services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features and enhancements.
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other technical issues.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation within the team.
• Participate in the hiring process to attract and retain top engineering talent

Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer at Paystack developing scalable and secure payment solutions. Collaborating with teams to drive innovation and mentoring junior engineers.

operations

• Lead country operations processes
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and risks in daily operations
• Drive automation initiatives to streamline tasks and unlock capacity for higher-value activities
• Establish and enforce SOPs aligned with group standards while tailoring to local market dynamics
• Serve as a bridge between operations and product teams, ensuring long-term sustainability
• Monitor liquidity to ensure uninterrupted product availability
• Lead planning and forecasting activities
• Act as primary liaison with financial institutions on funding and compliance
• Provide operational input into partner negotiations to support Kuunda’s scaling needs
• Oversee collections performance across partners, ensuring recovery targets are met
• Lead regular performance reviews, converting insights into actionable strategies
• Implement data-driven risk mitigation measures to strengthen portfolio health
• Design incentives and accountability frameworks to drive strong team performance
• Deliver consolidated performance reports with actionable insights for leadership
• Use analytics platforms to monitor trends, operational SLAs, and funding requirements
• Oversee efficient back-office operations, ensuring rapid, accurate partner support
• Monitor support systems and coordinate interventions to minimize downtime or issues
• Build internal and partner capability through training programs on compliance and operational best practices
• Cultivate strong relationships with financial institutions and ecosystem partners
• Provide transparent, data-driven insights to strengthen collaboration
• Support the Country Director with operational intelligence for partner engagements

Operations Manager

Operations Manager leading operational excellence at Kuunda, enhancing embedded finance systems and overseeing critical processes.

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