Senior Data Engineer

About KOKO Networks
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,200+ employees across East Africa & India. 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; (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel; and (3) KOKO Club, a tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer, instant fulfillment retail platform operated in partnership with neighborhood retailers. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.

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.

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.

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.

What you will do

• Design, implement and support KOKO’s data infrastructure
• Design and implement ETL pipelines, selecting the most appropriate tools and products in collaboration with KOKO’s analytics, product and engineering teams
• 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
• Build systems to track data quality and consistency, ensuring that our data is accurate & up to date
• 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).
• Keep our data secure across national boundaries through multiple data centers and AWS regions
• As the team grows, help recruit and manage additional data engineers
• Represent the Data Engineering discipline during sprint planning meetings and retrospectives
• Help build the engineering culture at KOKO, attracting similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle hard challenges

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• At least three years experience in software development, data engineering, business intelligence, data science, or a related field
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
• A track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets
• Demonstrated strength in data modeling, ETL development and optimisation, and data warehousing
• Experience working with big data technologies (preferably within AWS)
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Strong initiative, project management and organizational skills
• Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure
• Proactive approach to knowledge sharing and developing best practices
• Strong experience taking part in sprints, being involved in planning, retrospectives and estimations with cross-functional teams

What We Offer

• Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
• Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
• Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)
• 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
• Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely
• Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
• The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop

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.

KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!