As an engineer at Imara, you won’t just be building features; you will be engineering the "trust infrastructure" that ensures every dollar reaches the front lines, empowering community-led organizations to deliver hyper-proximate interventions for the women and girls who need them most.** Requirements:  **

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience focused on JVM languages

• 3+ years of formal leadership experience managing a team of Java backend engineers, including responsibility for conducting team performance reviews

• Experience within Microservices and AWS  

• You have extensive experience working with the Spring framework, as well as various other Java backend tools and frameworks

• Experience or knowledge of Salesforce CRM would be a plus

• You don’t want to just write code, you want to build scalable systems with quality

• You are based in Kenya or South Africa

• You have excellent English skills

• Financial Infrastructure for Outcomes: Developing a "single-contract" FinTech solution that aligns with government procurement needs while allowing for flexible reallocation of capital across geographies.

• AI-Driven Verification & Fraud Prevention: Utilizing AI and the proven Tiko platform to automate data collection and verify real-world impact, replacing manual, high-cost auditing with real-time, high-integrity data.

• Ecosystem-Scale Architecture: Building a platform designed to serve the entire sector, going beyond Tiko to support a wide range of organizations and funders in a unified, transparent ecosystem.

• Data Integrity for Social Good: Managing sensitive health and educational data with the highest security standards, ensuring that "paying for what works" becomes the global standard for philanthropy.