Software Engineering Lead (React)

Title: Software Engineering Lead (React)

Location: Remote

Reports to: Director of Engineering

About myAgro:

myAgro is a non-profit agritech social enterprise based in West Africa. We have developed a mobile savings model that allows farmers to invest their own funds in high-quality seed, fertilizer, and agricultural training to increase their harvest and income by 50-100%. Our North Star is to support 1 million farmers in 2026 - providing them the tools they need to prosper. Our organization has received recognition and support from Skoll Foundation, Echoing Green, World Bank, and The Audacious Project from TED. Learn more from our founder and CEO here.

About the Role:

You will lead our growing Field Applications engineering team that is responsible for building applications used by our field staff to enroll customers, facilitate payments, and collect other data from the field. You will report to the Director of Engineering and directly manage one of two teams of 5-7 engineers each who are distributed throughout Africa, the US, and Europe. You will work remotely from home (#LI-Remote) with occasional travel to our program countries. You could reside in anytime zone, as long as you are be available for team meetings in the core hours of 11:00am - 3:00pm GMT.

You Will:

• Own the architecture of the team's applications
• Contribute Javascript and Python code to make high-impact changes
• Mentor people on your team to help them grow their skills. Align their day-to-day work with their long-term career goals.
• Define the coding and quality standards for the team.
• Lead and improve the way the team does their work together.

You Have:

• Built JavaScript and TypeScript browser applications in React
• Designed system architecture in low-connectivity and highly constrained environments
• Experience working and relating effectively in culturally diverse situations.
• Led an engineer team, building their accountability, engagement and cohesion.
• Mentored team members to help them grow in their own careers.

Our Benefits:

• Health insurance (including dental, vision and health coverage)
• Approximately 4 weeks of paid time off each year
• Professional development and laptop stipends
• Co-working Space stipend
• The opportunity to make a difference for farmers everyday!