Fixa is looking for a Head of Engineering to be the technical and process leader for our team of ~10 talented engineers. You will shape how the company builds, ships, and scales its core products, with a focus on high-performance teams, clean systems, and setting the technical pace. We are a mission-driven, fully remote, African-founded company focused on fixing the broken funding system for African SMEs.

What You'll Do

Guide a team of engineers to ship high-quality software quickly and consistently.
Establish lightweight but effective workflows for planning, coordination, code quality, releases, and reviews.
Set technical direction and lead architectural discussions across the stack.
Continuously improve systems for performance, reliability, scalability, and simplicity.
Write high-quality TypeScript and contribute to the full-stack codebase when needed.
Work closely with AI and data teams to ensure robust integration of AI capabilities into the platform.
Mentor engineers and help hire great people as the company scales.

What We're Looking For

Deep experience in full-stack engineering, especially with Node.js, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL.
Led engineering teams of 5+ people before or played a senior role in teams with high velocity and high standards.
Strong instincts for balancing speed and quality, and know how to set up processes that don’t get in the way.
Have worked remotely and managed distributed teams.
Excited by systems thinking, and constantly seek to make things work better—technically and operationally.
Passion for working with mission-driven teams solving real-world challenges with technology.
Experience building team culture.
Based in Africa.

Technical Stack

Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, Python, Node.js, React
Data & Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM, custom data pipelines
AI & ML: LLMs

Team & Environment

You will lead a team of ~10 engineers. We are a high-caliber, tight-knit team that values autonomy, ownership, and craftsmanship in a fully remote setting.