Engineering Team Lead Roamtech

Location: Nairobi Kenya

About Roamtech
Roamtech is an energetic modern FinTech founded in Nairobi and operating globally. We operate with a startup mindset fast-paced highimpact and driven by curiosity. Innovation is at the core of everything we do. We iterate quickly learn continuously and empower our teams to ship meaningful products.

Our engineering organization is modern collaborative and grounded in lean Scrum principles. We work closely across teams to build scalable reliable and usercentric financial technology solutions.

Role Summary

We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead who is passionate about technology people and delivering impactful products. You will lead a crossfunctional engineering team guide technical execution and ensure the team thrives in a highvelocity environment. This role is both handson and leadershipfocused.

What You will Do

Team Leadership & Culture

• Lead mentor and grow a talented team of engineers.
  

• Foster a culture of collaboration ownership continuous improvement and psychological safety.
  

• Promote Roamtechs values of innovation agility and learning.
  

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural guidance and ensure highquality engineering practices.
  

• Drive technical decisionmaking and ensure alignment with longterm product vision.
  

• Participate in design sessions code reviews and handson coding when needed.
  

Execution & Delivery

• Run efficient lean Scrum processes with your team.
  

• Ensure predictable delivery of highimpact features.
  

• Remove blockers and empower the team to move fast without compromising quality.
  

Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product Managers Designers Data teams and other engineering teams.
  

• Facilitate effective communication and alignment across stakeholders.
  

• Ensure engineering decisions support business goals and user needs.
  

Nice to Have

• Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles strategic and tactical patterns.
  

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
  

• Experience in FinTech payments or highscale transactional systems.
  

• Experience working with globally distributed teams.
  

If youre excited to lead impactful engineering teams in a global FinTech with startup energy wed love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the future of financial technology at Roamtech.

Requirements

What We are Looking For

Required

• 7 years of experience in software engineering with 13 years in a leadership role.
  

• Solid experience with PHP including working with and modernizing legacy systems.
  

• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (Go preferred).
  

• Strong understanding of cloud-native engineering; experience with GCP is a major plus.
  

• Strong understanding of advanced engineering and architectural concepts not just coding but engineering system design.
  

• Proven track record of shipping high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
  

• Strong technical background in modern software development (preferred: backend services APIs cloud technologies or distributed systems).
  

• Understanding of modern engineering architectures such as Clean Architecture Hexagonal Architecture Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) Event-Driven Architectures (EDA) and Event Sourcing.
  

• Experience with agile development preferably lean Scrum.
  

• Excellent communication and people-leadership skills.
  

• Ability to balance delivery speed with technical excellence.
  

• A modern DevOps mindset is a must.
  

Benefits

Why Join Roamtech

• Work with a highenergy team that values impact over bureaucracy.
  

• Build products used across Africa and beyond.
  

• Competitive compensation growth opportunities and a continuous learning culture.
  

• A modern engineering environment that encourages experimentation and innovation.