Technical Lead [14 / 10 / 2025]

Founding Engineer @ Thumo (Africa’s first super-app)

We’re building Africa’s super-app, starting with food delivery. Fresh off a >

$2M funding round led by Soma Capital with top Silicon Valley angels, we’re hiring a Founding Engineer to help architect the next phase of our development as we expand to new markets. This fully remote role provides you with massive upside and exposure to an exciting, fast-moving Silicon Valley startup while allowing you to continue to work IST hours.

What you’ll do

• Work directly with CTO and CEO to shape the direction of development
• Make fundamental decisions about our tech stack, codebase scope, microservice articulation, and system architecture
• Design scalable and robust backend systems (routing algorithms, location prediction, etc) to enable our user base to grow exponentially
• Work with a talented Silicon Valley team in a fast-paced environment to integrate and build technologies specific to African markets
• Partner directly with our on-the-ground operations staff to design, create and test user-friendly development decisions and workflows
• Work with CTO and CEO on recruitment to help grow our team from 3 to 6-8 engineers

Qualifications

The role