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1077 Senior Level Jobs - October 2026

Discover senior-level and management positions across Africa. Find executive roles, department heads, senior specialists, and leadership positions in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Ghana.

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Senior Data Engineer

JUMO

Johannesburg, South Africa•6 months ago

About this job At JUMO, we’ve built a smart financial services platform to make finance accessible to everyone. Our Data engineering team ensures that our intelligent banking platform is able to acquire data from millions of users across globally distributed sources, such as GSM. Beyond ingress, the data is processed and stored in the cloud to support event-driven analytics and machine learning pipelines. As a JUMO Senior Data Engineer, you will design, build and maintain scalable data architectures. You will monitor their performance, perform root cause analysis and provide solutions to any issues that might arise. You will work with large, complex data sets, which means experience working with Big Data is essential. On a typical day, we use Spark, Kafka, Python, SQL, Airflow and AWS technologies, such as Redshift. We work with Docker and Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. You will Portfolio Managers and Decision Scientists to understand the real world problems we’re trying to solve You will need 5 - 8 years of experience in a similar role with a BSc. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent tertiary degree Real-world understanding & experience of data pipeline design and development, as well as data processing and storage (i.e. experience in designing systems to process and curate large data sets) Experience in streaming technologies, specifically Spark and Kafka Experience with cloud technologies, AWS preferred Solid, proven experience wor

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Senior Software Engineer

JUMO

Nairobi, Kenya•6 months ago

About this job Teamwork plays an integral role in the success of our tech strategy. In JUMO, our teams have exposure to a broad range of the best new technology, and are trusted with the autonomy and flexibility to explore, innovate and find creative solutions to interesting challenges. With this, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to our mission of enabling equal access to finance opportunities. We have chosen our tech stack carefully and believe in using the best tools out there. Our software engineering team is responsible for building our market-leading banking as a service platform & products, enabling real-time access to funds at the lowest possible operating cost. When integrated into JUMO’s platform, it enables our partners to offer loans, savings and a wide range of financial choices to a new group of customers. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be accountable for solving complex technical problems with solutions that are scalable, testable, maintainable, and efficient, whilst continuing to improve our engineering practices. This position reports to a Tech Lead. You will Architect services and systems using well accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Guide the team to consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors. You will need A Computer Science degree Experience with Kotlin

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QA Chapter Lead

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. Your Role at impact.com: The QA Lead is responsible for defining, implementing, and overseeing quality assurance strategies to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products for the group. This role bridges technical QA execution and leadership, guiding QA engineers while collaborating closely with development, product, and DevOps teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle What You'll Do: As a QA Lead for the platform group, you will lead a critical function focused on both the technical infrastructure and the human element of Quality Assurance. Your responsibilities will include: Quality Strategy & Process Define, track, and report on key quality metrics (e.g., defect rates, test coverage, automation stability) to drive continuous improvement. Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, and best practices Establish test strategies for functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing Ensure quality gates are integrated into CI/CD pipelines Drive continuous improvement of QA processes and tools Leadership & Team Management Lead, mentor, and support QA engineers (manual and automation), fostering their professional growth and skill development.

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Senior Onboarding Manager

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

Our Company: At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you! impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com. Onboarding at impact.com The impact.com Onboarding teams own the first experience customers have after they decide to partner with us, and we set the tone for everything that follows. We're the bridge between a signed deal and real, measurable value - the team that turns excitement into momentum and makes sure every customer hits the ground running. This work sits at a unique crossroads. Part project manager, part consultant, part platform expert, you'll immerse yourself in how businesses actually operate - le Your Role at impact.com: The Senior Onboarding Manager manages more complex onboarding engagements and acts as a trusted guide for customers during kickoff, integration & ramp phases. This role focuses on helping clients not only launch but also begin achieving meaningful business outcomes and early program value. Senior Onboarding Managers also contribute to improving onboarding processes, documentation, and scalable delivery models. What You'll Do: Manage complex customer onboarding projects

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Senior Software engineer

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. The systems you design and build will directly power our revenue growth, unlock new business models, and shape the backbone of how we operate. We’re delivering functionality that changes the core of the business, while replacing a legacy monolith with a modern modular monolith - or individual services where it makes sense. Someone who has a strong interest in the latest technologies and engineering practices, and thrives in an environment where curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement are part of daily life. 7+ years' experience in software development Deep foundations in computer science and software engineering (algorithms and data structures, distributed computing, large system design, agile approaches etc.) A true team player — you enjoy close collaboration, value collective code ownership, and believe the best solutions come from working openly with colleagues across disciplines. Above all: someone who actively seeks out better ways of building, delivering, and operating software, and isn’t satisfied with “the way things have always been done.” Our stack: Backend: Java / Spring Persistence: MySQL Frontend: Vue.js (though deep frontend expertise is not required) Architecture: Modular Monolith (evolving from legacy monolith), Hexagonal Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Systems Our methodologies: We strive for continuous improvement and use proven engineering practices: Domain-Driven Design (strategic & tactical) Trunk-Based Development & Con

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Senior Data Scientist, Product Data

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. About the Role We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist specializing in Product Data Quality to join our Cape Town Data Science team. In this role, you'll own the analytical and technical foundation of product data quality across our ecosystem—spanning catalog hygiene, transaction matching, classification modeling, deduplication, and global product identity. You'll work across both the structured catalog universe and the messier, larger-scale sales transaction universe, building models and infrastructure that power search, recommendations, and business intelligence. This is a high-impact role that demands both analytical depth and strong engineering capabilities: you'll take models from research to production, build scalable data pipelines, and create the monitoring infrastructure that makes our product data foundation trustworthy and continuously improving. Your work will directly influence search relevance, recommendation quality, match rates, and reporting accuracy across the business. Core Responsibilities Product classification & taxonomy modeling Develop, deploy, and maintain ML models for automated product categorization and taxonomy assignment across hierarchical category structures.

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Manager, Customer Operations Systems

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. Your Role at impact.com: Reporting directly to the VP of Customer Operations, the Manager, Customer Operations Systems is a critical leadership role that bridges the gap between operations, technical systems, and engineering. You will lead a small, agile team of Systems Analysts/Engineers tasked with owning the technology stack that powers our entire Customer Operations organization. You are not just managing a team; you are a hands-on individual contributor who loves diving into complex workflows, writing scripts, and building tools. You will have total ownership over our complex Freshdesk implementation - which supports support, success, compliance, renewals, onboarding, and many other teams - ensuring it is meticulously maintained, automated, and continuously improved. You will wear a Product Manager hat as you collaborate with our internal Gen AI engineering team to build out next-generation features (internal agentic workflow tools, AI support RAG system, AI-powered user actions, etc), while also getting your hands dirty building AI-powered internal applications (like LLM-as-a-judge training tools for new agents) You will act as a primary liaison between Customer Operations and Engineering, managing staging environments, ensuring data integrity alongside our data analysis group, and driving an ambitious pace of change. If you are a self-starter who thrives in an autonomous environment, loves turning messy processes into streamlined automations, and wants to release tools that fundamentally change how teams work, this is the role for you. What You Bring: Operational Experience: Proven experience managing technical/systems operations in a large and complex business (preferably SaaS) You don't need to be a career backend developer, but you must be technicall

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Senior Software Engineer

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results. Your Role at impact.com: We’re a team in a fast-growing SaaS scale-up on a mission to make self-service Products, Plans, Subscriptions, and Billing seamless - for clients as well as our sales and account management departments. This is the heart of our business: enabling customers to purchase and upgrade plans independently, while ensuring billing is fully automated, accurate, and scalable. The systems you design and build will directly power our revenue growth, unlock new business models, and shape the backbone of how we operate. We’re delivering functionality that changes the core of the business, while replacing a legacy monolith with a modern modular monolith - or individual services where it makes sense. Someone who has a strong interest in the latest technologies and engineering practices, and thrives in an environment where curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement are part of daily life. 7+ years' experience in software development Deep foundations in computer science and software engineering (algorithms and data structures, distributed computing, large system design, agile approaches etc.) A true team player — you enjoy close collaboration, value collective code ownership, and believe the best solutions come from working openly with colleagues across disciplines. Above all: someone who actively seeks out better ways of building, delivering, and operating software, and isn’t satisfied with “the way things have always been done.” Our stack: Backend: Jav

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Data Analytics Manager

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

Our Company: At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you! impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal and Fanatics visit www.impact.com. Your Role at impact.com: impact.com powers the partnership economy, helping brands and partners grow revenue through a modern SaaS platform used by thousands of companies globally. This is a senior player-coach role: you'll stay hands-on with deep analytical work while leading and developing a high-performing team of analysts. As Data Analytics Manager, you'll own the quality, consistency, and strategic impact of all analytical work produced by the Data Analyst team. You'll establish value-stream-aligned engagement patterns, drive Looker adoption and self-service maturity, and build analytical excellence through rigorous methodology, experimentation frameworks, and mentorship. You'll work on a modern cloud stack (BigQuery, dbt, Looker) with strong support from Analytics Engineering, who own the data platform and semantic layer. Our ideal candidate has deep analytical expertise, a track record of building teams, and the energy to create structure where little exists. What You'll Do: Lead, mentor, and de

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Creator Account Manager

Impact.com

Cape Town, South Africa•6 months ago

Our Company: At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you! impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, and Fanatics, visit www.impact.com. Your Role at impact.com: As part of our Creator Solutions team, impact.com’s in-house performance creator experts, you’ll drive growth and engagement across a portfolio of client creator and affiliate programs. You’ll partner closely with brands across industries like fashion, food, parenting, and tech to design and scale performance-led creator strategies that deliver real results. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and client partnership in a fast-moving creator landscape. What You'll Do: Lead and manage the client relationship across a portfolio of accounts, from strategy and planning through to launch, optimisation, and reporting.

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