Carry1st is Africa’s leading games publisher and monetisation platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. We launch, localise, and scale games for global audiences, operate the region’s fastest-growing digital top-up web shop, and offer a payments platform that boosts revenue by up to 10x in markets with low card usage but high demand for digital content.

Our partners include Activision, EA, Riot Games, and Netease. Backed by investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Sony, Riot Games, and Nas, we’re solving hard problems at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and digital commerce.

As a Lead Engineer of the Shop Team you will be responsible for leading the delivery of our Carry1st Shop. This role will provide you an opportunity to evolve and grow our Carry1st Shop across multiple distribution channels.

In this role, you will gain knowledge of how the gaming industry works from a monetisation perspective, and also be able to work with different gaming partners at different points of the Carry1st journey. This opportunity will also provide you the experience of joining a technical journey to scale the platform to be used by millions of African and Middle Eastern gamers.

You will...

• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and convert these into technical requirements for the development team
• Lead the development team in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance phases of our engineering process
• Write testable, scalable and efficient code as well as conducting regular code reviews
• Promote development best practices and continue to improve these by partnering with our Senior Staff Engineers and CTO
• Perform line management duties and grow the engineering careers of your direct reports

What makes you a great candidate?

• You have proven success as a team lead. You can collaborate with non engineering (sometimes non English speaking) stakeholders really well and know what it takes to lead teams through software delivery
• Strong system design skills. You are able to consistently design scalable features and document these efficiently for the team
• Strong knowledge of Full Stack Software Development. Our stack uses next.js, Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and AWS. You know how to write scalable software and review code efficiently
• Experience with E-commerce related frameworks and tools related to Analytics, CMS, Experimentation, Localisation.
• Strong project management skills using Scrum. You know the purpose of each Scrum ceremony well, how to measure the effectiveness of your team and how to manage the scrum backlog effectively with your product manager

What will it be like to work at Carry1st?

Carry1st is a fast-paced and dynamic place to work. Our team is diverse and global as we operate fully-remotely across 25+ countries. At Carry1st, you will have the opportunity to…

• Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
• Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech
• Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
• Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create

Some additional perks…

• Co-working excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world
• Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively
• Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
• Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
• Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
• Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us!

Learn more about Carry1st…

• Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
• VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
• Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market