Head of Engineering

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August 15

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Recruitment • B2B • HR Tech

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.

1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

🤝 B2B

👥 HR Tech

📋 Description

• You’ll be the technical and process leader for a team of ~10 talented engineers, helping shape how we build, ship, and scale Vula’s core products. This role is ideal for someone who’s passionate about high-performance teams, clean and efficient systems, and setting the technical pace. • You’ll be responsible for: Team Leadership: Guiding a team of engineers to ship high-quality software quickly and consistently. • Process Ownership: Establishing lightweight but effective workflows for planning, coordination, code quality, releases, and reviews. • Technical Guidance: Setting technical direction and leading architectural discussions across our stack. • System Optimization: Continuously improving our systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity. • Hands-on Contribution: Writing high-quality TypeScript and contributing to our full-stack codebase when needed. • AI and Data Collaboration: Working closely with our AI and data teams to ensure robust integration of AI capabilities into the platform. • Team Growth: Mentoring engineers and helping us hire great people as we scale. • Our Stack: Language: TypeScript (mostly) and Python; Backend: Node.js, Prisma ORM, PostgreSQL; Frontend: React (with TypeScript); AI / Data: Heavy integration with LLMs and custom data pipelines; Infra: Modern CI/CD and DevOps tools. • You’re likely a great fit if you: Are based in Africa and excited about building world-class software from the continent, for the continent.

🎯 Requirements

• Have deep experience in full-stack engineering, especially with Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL. • Have led engineering teams of 5+ people before or played a senior role in teams with high velocity and high standards. • Have strong instincts for balancing speed and quality, and you know how to set up processes that don't get in the way. • Have worked remotely and managed distributed teams. • Are excited by systems thinking, and constantly seek to make things work better—technically and operationally. • Have a passion for working with mission-driven teams solving real-world challenges with technology. • Have experience building team culture. • Are based in Africa and excited about building world-class software from the continent, for the continent.

🏖️ Benefits

• Be part of a mission that matters: fixing the broken funding system for African SMEs. • Join a high-caliber, tight-knit team that values autonomy, ownership, and craftsmanship. • Work with some of the most exciting technologies in software, data, and AI. • Fully remote, African-founded, and laser-focused on meaningful, long-term impact.