Director of Engineering

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

We believe that new technology is critical to building the most effective rural distribution network on the African continent. Today, we reach over 5.6 million farmers, and we aspire to serve more than 10 million households in the coming decade. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead the development of our technology, focusing on a mobile tech transformation: providing our field staff with the mobile-based tools to reach more farmers; developing scalable, direct communication channels with farmers to improve customer service; and digitizing and decentralizing data collection tools to speed up data flows and improve efficiency.

We are looking for someone with the technical experience to bring this vision to life; the Director of Engineering will transform our technology into a core organizational strength, working through several development teams that cross our tech stack

Responsibilities

Set and steer engineering strategy & vision: In partnership with the CTO, the Head of Engineering, OCTO (Office of the CTO), Product, AI Enablement, and InfoSec, you will shape and execute our engineering strategy and ensure alignment with the broader Technology Division and One Acre Fund business strategy. Specifically:

• Build a high-performing engineering practice that applies industry best practices for continuous delivery, automated testing, observability, and information security by default.
• Co-own DORA-led engineering health (lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR) and drive measurable, continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with Product to deliver a unified roadmap across the Experience Teams, ensuring engineering capacity is matched to the highest-value outcomes.
• Partner with the AI Enablement Team (AI Architect and Senior AI Engineers) to embed AI capability into core platforms.
• Co-own completion of the Azure → AWS cloud migration alongside the DevOps lead, and steer the engineering organisation into an AWS-native operating model.