Yoco is a growing African Fintech, enabling people to thrive through open commerce.

Founded in 2015, Yoco now processes over US$2 billion annually, and we’re the payments provider for over 200 000 self-employed.

By 2024 we aim to serve 3 million entrepreneurs, becoming the leading Open Commerce ecosystem for small business, across Africa and the Middle East.


ABOUT THE TEAM 

The Cloud Engineering & ICT function at Yoco forms part of the larger Technology Group. Several teams make up this function and they’re responsible for infrastructure, cloud environments and hosting platform capabilities, internal IT, and security. One of the key goals is to be enablers and contribute to a solid foundation upon which all our products and services can be built and run. The teams strive to not be blockers and provide as much autonomy as possible to the areas they support as well as implement the relevant guard rails to ensure we can build amazing things quickly and securely whilst ensuring they remain reliable and are able to scale effectively.

ABOUT THE ROLE 

We’re looking for an experienced manager excited by the opportunity to contribute to something meaningful and apply your broad knowledge spanning development, operations, security, infrastructure, and support. Working at one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Africa means you’ll be helping to solve some unique challenges that we’re faced with. The Cloud Engineering Manager’s primary responsibility is to the globally distributed team of Cloud Engineers you manage and support, ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their careers at Yoco. You’ll be working to enhance our Cloud and DevOps capabilities, and improve operational processes. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and together with your counterparts work on direction and execution to deliver impactful solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Provide mentorship and guidance to support the development and training of engineers as well as help to set clear goals and expectations by conducting regular 1:1s.

• Continue to establish and support an environment of continuous improvement, where you help to create growth opportunities as well as a positive high-performing work environment based on transparency, accountability and trust.

• Continue to develop the team by coaching and retaining the best talent with a hands-on approach to career development.

• Work closely with the Technical Lead to build roadmaps, and prioritise projects + day-to-day activities through defining epics and running planning and review sessions to ensure we balance the right amount of structure and planning for a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the Product and Technology Groups to set expectations, manage dependencies, risks and continuous process improvement.

• Continue to establish and refine our best practices for security, disaster recovery, migration and expansion of business systems infrastructure.

• Live and breathe our company values and leadership principles and continue to foster a culture of mutual respect and collaborative decision-making.

ABOUT YOU

Key requirements to perform responsibilities successfully:

• 5+ years of experience growing, coaching and mentoring diverse teams

• At least 6+ years of production-level experience in designing, building and maintaining public cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP)

• You love developing people and you’re passionate about improving the environment in which they work

• Proven ability to plan and manage multiple priorities simultaneously and capable of delivering impactful results

• You have a thorough understanding of modern infrastructure, concepts and technologies
  

THE YOCO FORMULA

The Yoco formula is a validated approach to work and a set of behaviours that create maximum value for our customers and help us grow.

Core Values - Our way of working to create value & grow

• Stay Connected

• Make Space to Explore

• Keep it Simple

• Master your Craft

  
  

Core Behaviours - How we show up, engage & treat each other

• Get to know each other personally

• Say what you think

• Be courageous and focus forward

• Don’t let ego get in the way

  
  

To support this, we have built a role-based organisation where every individual is given the space to focus and develop their innate strengths. Everyone at Yoco has the opportunity to lead a project and become a specialist, enabling flexibility, collaboration and accountability at all levels. You will be working with a diverse, motivated and skilled team who will continuously stretch you as an individual. To learn more about our culture, subscribe to our Exposure Gallery.

Join us on a meaningful journey at Yoco, and help enable our merchants to thrive through Open Commerce!