Product Engineering Lead

Turnkey Africa Ltd

Product Engineering Lead at Agencify providing hands-on technical leadership while translating business priorities into engineering plans. Ensuring product execution and operational alignment across teams.

Posted 6/28/2026full-timeNairobi • 🇰🇪 KenyaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Hands-on Technical Leadership
Own sprint planning, execution tracking, reviews and retrospectives.
Ensure every release has QA evidence, business validation, rollback, monitoring and support readiness.
Own the technical response to recurring customer, agent and insurer issues with root-cause fixes.
Monitor transaction success, failure and latency across insurer and third-party integrations.
Translate business priorities into user stories and acceptance criteria.
Partner with the Head of Growth & Operations to align delivery with commercial priorities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8 years in software engineering, including 2+ years as a Technical Lead, Team Lead or senior engineer leading delivery.
Strong hands-on engineering background with current technical credibility.
Experience leading a squad or delivery stream in a customer-facing production environment.
Solid grounding in APIs, integrations and distributed or service-based systems.
Experience with Product, Support, Operations or commercial stakeholders, including backlog refinement and acceptance criteria.
SaaS, FinTech, InsurTech, payments, marketplaces or integration-heavy platform experience preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringTechnical CredibilityDelivery Stream ManagementBacklog RefinementAcceptance Criteria Development

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationProblem-Solving