.**About the company**:MAX is a team of passionate people building digital infrastructure to deliver the future of mobility in Africa and Emerging Markets.At MAX, you'll have a unique opportunity to align your passion with a meaningful mission. You will get a real opportunity to grow and make a real lasting impact on the lives of millions of people, and help deliver access to safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable transportation.**We are Powering Africa's Forward Movement**, and this is being actualized through ourtransformative Mission**:Making mobility safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable****through the deployment of high-performance technology and operators.**We are building the largest vehicle subscription and financial services platform for commercial drivers and transport operators across Africa. Our proprietary technology is enabling Drivers with no banking history** to access low to zero emission vehicles, insurance, digital wallets and eHailing services on a subscription basis**.From 2019 to 2020, we scaled from 200 to more than 10,000 drivers and have raised more than $40m to achieve our mission. Our goal is to serve 14 million gig drivers across Africa's $250B mobility industry. In the short term, we are scaling our impact to 100,000 drivers across 10 cities in 3 countries.**Our Proposal**:We are looking for someone who will oversee all technical aspects and technological resources of Max to drive organizational growth.**What you'll be doing**:- **Oversee** all software development plans from ideation to execution.- Collaborate with the teams and departments to** produce software design and architecture.**:- **D**rive Key Performance Indicators** across all areas of the Engineering function to ensure that all projects are delivered on cost and on time to the highest quality standards.- **Design strategies** for future development projects based on the company's overall objectives and resources.- **Provide clear leadership and vision**, inspire and motivate staff to achieve excellence, and mentor them as they develop new skills (code reviews).- **Maintain, update, refactor and debug** new and existing codes.- **Develop ideas for new programs, products, or features **by monitoring the industry developments & trends.- **Coordinate with external stakeholders** for new integrations and tools.- **Record and report data** to the appropriate parties, such as clients, leadership ormanagement.- **Ensure quality control** for all code rollout from the engineering department.- **Work with HR **to assess, hire and mentor new developers.**It can be a perfect match if you meet**:- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related fields.- **10+ years of hands-on experience** in backend & frontend **software development** using PHP and MySQL or any other **backend languages**.- **4+ years** of experience working with** Laravel and/or Lumen or Express or Django and/or Django Rest Framework