Enakl builds the digital infrastructure for shared commuting in African cities.
Our platform currently handles 30K+ monthly bookings across B2B and consumer segments and is entering a critical transition toward a multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

This role exists to harden, refactor, and stabilize the backend and cloud platform during this transition.

This is not a feature-delivery role.
This is a senior systems ownership role focused on architecture, judgment, and reducing systemic production risk.

You will act as a backend and cloud systems enabler, operating with high autonomy and ownership.

Systems & Architecture Ownership

• Own critical backend domains end-to-end (application, database, cloud surface)

• Make production-impacting decisions within architectural principles

• Drive structural refactoring while keeping production stable

• Identify fragility early and act without waiting for instructions

• Propose architectural trade-offs instead of escalating for direction

Autonomous Execution Under Ambiguity

• Operate effectively under incomplete or evolving requirements

• Translate business constraints into clean technical decisions

• Reduce CTO arbitration load through sound technical judgment

• Absorb ambiguity rather than propagate it

• Raise standards proactively across the backend and cloud layers

Multi-Tenant SaaS Foundations

• Design and implement strict data isolation mechanisms

• Strengthen access control models and permission boundaries

• Prepare backend systems for SaaS-scale usage

• Prevent cross-client data leakage at all layers

Database & Cloud Responsibility

• Own complex PostgreSQL relational models

• Design safe schema evolution and migration strategies

• Ensure transactional consistency under concurrency and load

• Be comfortable operating within AWS infrastructure (or equivalent)

• Understand deployment pipelines, cloud security principles, and access control

• Improve reliability, observability, and production discipline

Technical Leadership

• Lead backend code reviews and enforce quality standards

• Mentor engineers toward stronger ownership and autonomy

• Improve testing discipline and production readiness

• Contribute to documentation and architectural clarity

You will join a lean engineering team operating a live production system.

You will:

• Collaborate with the CTO on architecture and sequencing

• Take ownership of backend and cloud decisions without constant scaffolding

• Act as the backend technical spine in daily execution

• Operate in a high-trust, engineering-focused environment

This role is expected to increase autonomy and reduce systemic bottlenecks.

Required

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience

• Strong expertise in Node.js / TypeScript

• Strong SQL skills with PostgreSQL

• Experience refactoring live production systems

• Experience with multi-tenant systems or strong understanding of data isolation and access control

• Solid experience operating backend systems on AWS (or equivalent cloud)

• Comfortable touching application, database, and cloud layers

• Strong testing discipline (unit + integration)

• Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously under ambiguity

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and ability to use AI tools to accelerate execution

Strong Plus

• SaaS platform experience

• Access control systems (ACL, RBAC, ABAC)

• Event-driven systems or background processing

• Experience stabilizing systems under growth or constraint

Success Criteria (First 6–12 Months)

Within 6 months, you will:

• Reduce architectural decision load on the CTO

• Stabilize critical backend and cloud domains

• Advance or implement data isolation foundations

• Improve backend reliability and reduce production fragility

• Increase team autonomy through mentorship and example

Within 12 months, you will:

• Help establish secure, production-grade SaaS foundations

• Improve systemic resilience across backend and cloud

• Enable the platform to scale without increasing decision bottlenecks

This is a high-ownership role in a live production system undergoing a real SaaS transition. You will work directly with the CTO, operate with full backend domain authority, and have direct impact on architecture decisions. This is not a support role — it is a systems ownership role for someone who wants to build, not execute tickets.