Performance Quality Engineer (SRE)

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.

Your Role

As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for experienced performance engineers for our cloud based software products responsible for scalability as well as reliability of our products and services.

In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to many customer and internal facing products. 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.

What you will do

• Work closely with internal and external customers to understand technology requirements for key projects
• Evaluate application architectures and design performance test plans
• Establish performance test objectives, acceptance criteria, workload profiles and use case scenarios
• Measure and analyze performance data (workload, system and application)
• Solve complex problems and provide clear and concise reports with recommendations
• Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, project managers and other engineers to define, design, scope and underload and make recommendations to improve performance, reliability and stability
• Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO

KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, bitbucket

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• At least four years experience performance testing applications at enterprise scale using the front and back end technologies in our stack
• Ability to translate products and services into non-functional requirements categorising into load, stress,
  
• Ability to performance test and ensure robust and scalable services using Jmeter, Blazemeter, LoadRunner and the likes
• Familiarity with Cloud/ SaaS architectures, performance testing of microservices, web and mobile applications at scale
• Strong understanding of monitoring and profiling tools like grafana, AWS cloud watch, SumoLogic, New Relic
• Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)
• Worked in an Agile multi-functional team
• Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

What We Offer

• Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
• Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
• Compny Mediclaim Insurance for you and your family
• 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
• 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. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.

If you share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact, we strongly encourage you to apply!

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