Senior Platform Engineer

About Us

We believe that all children should be given the chance to reach their full potential. However, more than 600 million children in the world do not achieve foundational skills like literacy and basic numeracy – despite the majority of them going to school. 

At EIDU, we are creating the next-generation EdTech platform for children who lack access to high quality education that all children deserve. We currently serve over 770,000 students in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan and are aiming to serve tens of millions within the next few years. In a year-long randomised control trial conducted by external researchers, midline results indicated that learners that used EIDU advanced their skills 58% faster. We also have fascinating projects with leading technology companies to further enhance learning outcomes through AI. 

EIDU is funded by well-known development agencies, foundations, and impact investors and we are about to scale our programme rapidly through partnerships with governments.

With a mission like EIDU's, diversity of thought and background within our team is crucial. We value those who can bring diverse perspectives to our platform and help us provide high-quality education to as many children as we can across the globe.

If you'd like to learn more about us, visit our website at  or watch our two-minute video.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help us build the systems and tools that empower our small engineering team to move faster, build better, and scale globally.

What you will do:

Drive improvements to our developer experience, making development, testing, and operation fast, reliable, and consistent.Evolve our Kubernetes-based backend architecture to optimise for performance, security, and productivity.Own and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and reliability practices.Take a proactive role in integrating AI tools into our workflows: whether it's using LLMs to augment coding, debugging, or documentation; or building small AI-enhanced tools for internal use.Jump into complex, team-spanning issues — from distributed bugs to deployment bottlenecks — and drive them to resolution with technical insight and cross-team coordination.Contribute to major strategic efforts like open-sourcing our platform by helping to decouple from vendor-specific dependencies.Collaborate with our Principal Engineer and the broader team to raise the bar on engineering quality, scalability, and autonomy.We're a small team with a big mission — which means efficiency and leverage matter immensely. You'll be at the centre of making sure we use the right tools, automations, and AI enhancements to multiply our impact.

What you should bring:

A strong foundation in software engineering with multiple years of hands-on platform engineering experience in the Kubernetes ecosystem: building, running, and debugging production systems.Comfort owning and improving large technical areas independently, and an ability to make pragmatic architecture decisions.As a senior member of a small team, you'll be expected to mentor others, elevate standards, and proactively address issues.A desire to apply AI tools creatively to make your own work — and your teammates' — more efficient.Excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to learn new tech or dive into unfamiliar systems.A focus on craft, clarity, and long-term maintainability — even when moving fast.We speak and operate in English - knowledge of German is not required.

What we offer:

A supportive, international team based in Kenya, Nigeria, and Germany, united by a mission and commitment to learning.An engineering culture grounded in craftsmanship, trust, and autonomy.Meaningful technical challenges: from scaling across low-end devices and unreliable connectivity to designing resilient, self-healing systems.A modern, evolving stack:

• Tooling: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions
• Backend: AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, microservices
• Frontend: React, TypeScript, Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
• Openness to exploring and proposing new tools — whether open-source, cloud-native, or AI-powered.
• Three creative hackathon weeks per year, where you can explore bold new directions.
• A healthy work-life balance with flexible hours, an async-friendly culture that respects personal time and autonomy, and a hybrid setup (in-office once a week or more). We also support reduced working hours if requested (e.g. 32 rather than 40 hours per week).
• Transparent and fair salary bands — we believe everyone should be paid equitably, without needing to negotiate.
• A truly generous equity scheme.
• The chance to see your work in action through field visits to classrooms abroad.
• A rare opportunity to combine deep technical work with real-world global impact.
  
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