Lead Engineer - Shop

Carry1st is Africa’s leading games publisher and monetisation platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. We launch, localise, and scale games for global audiences, operate the region’s fastest-growing digital top-up web shop, and offer a payments platform that boosts revenue by up to 10x in markets with low card usage but high demand for digital content.

Our partners include Activision, EA, Riot Games, and Netease. Backed by investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Sony, Riot Games, and Nas, we’re solving hard problems at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and digital commerce.

As a Lead Engineer of the Shop Team you will be responsible for leading the delivery of our Carry1st Shop. This role will provide you an opportunity to evolve and grow our Carry1st Shop across multiple distribution channels.

In this role, you will gain knowledge of how the gaming industry works from a monetisation perspective, and also be able to work with different gaming partners at different points of the Carry1st journey. This opportunity will also provide you the experience of joining a technical journey to scale the platform to be used by millions of African and Middle Eastern gamers.

You will...

• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and convert these into technical requirements for the development team
• Lead the development team in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance phases of our engineering process
• Write testable, scalable and efficient code as well as conducting regular code reviews
• Promote development best practices and continue to improve these by partnering with our Senior Staff Engineers and CTO
• Perform line management duties and grow the engineering careers of your direct reports