Engineering Manager

Job Description

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.

Our Rwanda program, founded in 2007 is our largest and operates under the local brand Tubura. We have more than 3,000 staff across all four provinces of Rwanda, as well as in Kigali. Together, we served more than 2.8 million farmers in 2024. We work closely with the government to support national efforts to improve food security. Additionally, we help channel funding and resources to promising agri-SMEs, supporting farmers by providing a market for high-impact crops such as coffee, avocado, and chili.

Job Summary

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.

Minimum Qualifications Required

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.