Roamtech is a licensed Content Service Provider by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) focused on providing mobile phone content through existing mobile telephone networks. The company aims to harness the full Information Technology potential by rolling out cutting-edge solutions and services that harmonize various IT aspects and fields.
The Head of Engineering at Roamtech is a senior leadership role responsible for driving technical excellence, defining architectural strategy, and leading multiple engineering teams in building cutting-edge solutions. This position requires deep technical knowledge combined with proven leadership abilities to foster a strong engineering culture and ensure high-quality, scalable execution.
What You Will Do
Engineering Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and coach multiple Engineering Team Leads.
- Act as a technical authority and escalation point across teams.
- Lead by example through hands-on involvement in architecture, design, and critical implementations.
- Build a strong engineering culture grounded in ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.
Architecture & Technical Excellence
- Own and evolve Roamtech’s engineering architecture strategy together with the Head of Architecture.
- Design, review, and guide implementation of event-driven systems, including Event Sourcing.
- Champion Domain-Driven Design (DDD), bounded contexts, and clear domain ownership.
- Enforce and evolve modern architectural patterns: Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, SOA, EDA, and distributed systems best practices.
- Ensure systems are scalable, resilient, observable, and secure.
- Implement a state-of-the-art monitoring system across all products and codebases to ensure proactive incident recognition and detection.
Processes, Practices & Standards
- Design and continuously improve engineering processes across teams.
- Establish clear standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
- Balance speed and quality in a startup-like environment without compromising long-term maintainability.
- Drive consistent, high-quality execution across teams while enabling autonomy.
- Work closely with the Head of Product to ensure timely delivery of the committed roadmap.
- Work together with Business Owners of the individual products to manage challenges and execution.
Execution & Collaboration
- Partner closely with the CTO, Head of Product, and other stakeholders on strategy and delivery.
- Support roadmap planning and ensure engineering execution aligns with product and business goals.
- Help teams navigate trade-offs between delivery, quality, and technical debt.
Required Qualifications
Roamtech is seeking candidates who possess the following qualifications and experience:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Multi year background at Staff or Principal Engineer level prior to or alongside leadership roles.
- Deep, hands-on experience designing and building event-driven systems, including Event Sourcing.
- Proven expertise in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and complex domain modeling.
- Strong experience with Clean Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture, and modern distributed system design.
- Cloud-native experience (GCP strongly preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable engineering processes across multiple teams.
- Experience leading and coaching Engineering Team Leads.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence across the organization.
- BA/BSc/HND qualification.
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