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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Title: </span>Senior Engineering Manager</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Location and Work Authorization: </span>India or Kenya, with current and ongoing work authorization</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Position:</span> Full-time </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Posted on:</span> 17 June 2026</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Application deadline:</span><span> </span>10 July 2026, 6 pm EAT (applications will be reviewed as they are submitted)</span></p>\n<p><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">About the Role:</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">PxD is looking for a technically strong engineering leader to own the delivery and development of our technology platforms. This is a hands-on role requiring both technical leadership and people management.</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Our primary platform, Paddy, is a two-way communications system built on Erlang that delivers agricultural advisory to millions of smallholder farmers via SMS, IVR, and chat. We are also building PaddyAI, a generative AI assistant that enables agronomists to produce hyper-localised, personalised advisory content at scale.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The technology function itself is still taking shape — meaning the person in this role will have genuine influence over architecture decisions, team capability, and ways of working. There is real scope to build something meaningful here. The systems we create serve millions of smallholder farmers, and we think that matters.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In this role, you will work closely with Program and Research teams to design, build, and scale reliable technology solutions that advance our organisational goals. You will lead a team of seven, setting high standards and creating the conditions for them to do their best work.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities:</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Engineering Leadership</span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Guide system architecture, design decisions, and technology choices</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Define and drive the engineering roadmap, consolidating existing systems and planning for scale across current and new geographies</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Scope projects, manage technical trade-offs, and unblock delivery. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Stay hands-on enough to review designs, guide implementation, and resolve critical technical issues., </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Improve standards for testing, security, deployment, monitoring, and documentation. </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Team Leadership </span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Manage a distributed team of 6 staff across India and Kenya. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Set priorities, clarify expectations, and hold the team accountable for delivery.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Coach team members, give feedback, and lead performance reviews.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Improve team planning, communication, and documentation.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Technical Partner to Leadership, Program, Research </span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Turn organizational priorities into clear technical plans.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Explain technical risks and trade-offs in plain language.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Evaluate new ideas and prototypes before engineering commits time.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Keep the team focused on high-impact, feasible work. </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Technology &amp; Systems</span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Continuously improve engineering processes, tools, and frameworks</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Make architecture and technology decisions that keep systems reliable, scalable, and maintainable</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Ensure strong DevOps practices </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Contribute to long-term technology strategy and architecture evolution</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Required Skills &amp; Experience:</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Leadership &amp; Management</span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Significant experience (~10+ years) in software engineering, with a demonstrated track record (~4+ years) in an Engineering Manager role  </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience managing and developing engineering teams</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Comfortable working with incomplete information and shifting priorities</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Technical Expertise</span></span><br><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Strong experience in backend and/or full-stack development</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience working with telephony engineering (voice, SMS)</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Familiarity with A/B testing </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Proven experience keeping high-volume cloud systems reliable in production through sound CI/CD, system observability and tight incident reponse practices </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Experience with Erlang or other functional programming languages preferred. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">How to apply: </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">To apply, please visit the PxD website and use the online application form to submit a CV, cover letter, and brief responses to the screening questions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the application deadline of </span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">10 July 2026, 6 pm EAT.</span></span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic\">PxD is committed to building an inclusive and diverse organisation. We don’t make decisions based on gender, gender identity, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristics that are unrelated to the role. 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We are evidence-based: we test our interventions with randomized controlled trials to prove our impact and cost-effectiveness, to simultaneously learn from and improve our service, and to demonstrate our value to funders and partners. There are few programmes in international development that are as demonstrably cost-effective as ours. </span></p>",
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