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title: 'Founding Engineer at Share'
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# Founding Engineer at Share

- **Company:** Share
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/share/ce8175e4-8d92-434a-8c6d-71d009e5568d/application

**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, RabbitMQ, M-Pesa, Stripe, Adyen, STK push, Webhook idempotency, Callback signature verification, Reconciliation, Transaction isolation, Event-driven architectures

> Join Share as a Founding Engineer to build core platform infrastructure for Africa’s internet backbone. You will own critical domains including payments, billing, and ISP integrations, working directly with the CTO to ship production systems handling real financial transactions.

## Job description

## ABOUT SHARE

Share is a venture-backed internet infrastructure network building Africa’s backbone. The company aggregates underutilized telecom infrastructure, fiber, subsea cables, and data centers, and provides ISPs with scalable access to bandwidth without traditional upfront costs. Through an open-access model, local internet providers can deliver dramatically faster speeds to their subscribers without raising their own costs.

The platform team builds the software that makes this work: billing, payments, subscriber management, RADIUS-based network authentication, and integrations with ISP billing systems and mobile money providers. We are replacing legacy, non-API systems with a modern API platform, and real money is already flowing through the system. This is a small, high-intensity engineering team building core infrastructure under real deadlines. You will own entire domains, not tickets.

## THE ROLE

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to take ownership of the platform’s most critical technical domains: the payments pipeline (collections, revenue splitting, treasury operations), the billing engine (subscription lifecycle, cycle management, automated renewals), and the integration layer (BSS/OSS sync with partner systems). You will work directly with the CTO and a small team of engineers to ship production systems that handle real financial transactions for real ISP partners.

## NON-NEGOTIABLE

- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in backend systems handling real financial transactions (payments, billing, ledger, or treasury)
- Deep TypeScript/Node.js expertise. You should be able to design a NestJS microservice from scratch, not just work in one.
- Production experience with payment gateway integrations (M-Pesa, Stripe, Adyen, or similar). You understand STK push flows, webhook idempotency, callback signature verification, and reconciliation.
- Strong PostgreSQL skills. You can design schemas for financial data, write migrations, and reason about transaction isolation and locking.
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar). You understand the difference between request-reply and fire-and-forget patterns and when to use each.
- You ship. You can take a spec document and turn it into production code without waiting for someone to break it into small tasks.

## AI-AUGMENTED ENGINEERING (REQUIRED MINDSET)

We expect every engineer at Share to use AI tools as a daily part of their workflow. This is not optional and not aspirational — it is how we operate. Our entire project planning, specification, and documentation process runs through AI-assisted sessions. Our codebase includes AI-readable context files. We use Claude for architecture decisions, code review, spec generation, and technical writing.

What this means for you:

- You already use AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) daily and can articulate how they change your workflow.
- You are comfortable working with AI-generated specifications and can critically evaluate them, push back where they are wrong, and extend them where they are incomplete.
- You see AI as a force multiplier that lets a small team operate at the capacity of a much larger one. You are not threatened by it; you are faster because of it.
- You are willing to contribute to improving our AI-assisted workflows — better prompts, better context files, better session structures.

## COMPENSATION & DETAILS:

- Competitive Salary & Equity package
- Additional Benefits
- Paid Business Travel when needed
- Ownership in a venture-backed early stage startup building the future of physical and digital infrastructure in Africa

## About Share

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Share is building Africa's largest open-access internet network by coordinating fragmented telecom infrastructure (subsea cables, fiber, data centers) into a single interoperable ecosystem for ISPs, hyperscalers, and AI companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; Seed round announced April 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States (with operations in Kenya, Spain, Poland, and France)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Omar Pederzoli (Co-Founder), Jose Muñoz Aycart (Co-Founder), Luis Munoz Aycart (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Telecommunications / Internet Infrastructure
- **Target Customers**: B2B — ISPs (Internet Service Providers), hyperscalers, AI companies, and network operators across Africa
- **Mission**: To connect the next billion people to the internet by making fragmented infrastructure work as one network — treating connectivity as a human right.

## Products & Services
- **Open-Access Network Platform**: A coordination layer that aggregates underutilized telecom infrastructure (fiber, subsea cables, data centers) and provides ISPs with scalable backhaul capacity, management tools, and access to capital.
- **Bandwidth Marketplace**: Acts as a financial and operational layer, enabling ISPs to offer high-speed (up to 1 Gbps) internet plans without upfront capacity costs.
- **Funding & Payments**: Provides network operators with access to capital and consolidated payment processing (receiving all payments in one place).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Seed round announced April 2026 (amount undisclosed). Currently 11 employees but active job postings for 35 roles, indicating aggressive scaling.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greenfield Capital (lead), Kosmos Ventures, Generative Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, and strategic angels.
- **Growth Signals**: 16 providers, 6,000+ km of fiber, 10 data centers, 8M+ people reached across East Africa. In May 2026, ISPs on Share's network began offering 1 Gbps plans without raising costs — 100x speed increases at same price points. 35 active job openings despite only 11 current employees.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Coordination Moat**: Rather than building new infrastructure, Share solves the harder problem of making existing (fragmented) infrastructure work together — a financial and operational layer that is difficult to replicate.
- **First-Mover in Open-Access Model for Africa**: No other company is aggregating disparate telecom assets into a single marketplace at this scale on the continent.
- **Speed-to-Cost Disruption**: Delivering 100x faster internet to end users without increasing ISP costs, fundamentally changing the economics of African connectivity.
- **Strong Investor Backing**: Led by Greenfield Capital, with deep-tech/crypto-native investors (Zee Prime, Generative Ventures) suggesting a novel financial/blockchain approach to infrastructure coordination.
- **Decentralized / Community-Owned Architecture**: Branded as "everyone's internet" with a community-owned ethos, differentiating from traditional telco models.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Network**: Expanding coverage across East Africa and beyond, connecting more providers and more people.
- **Hiring Deeply Technical Talent**: Currently recruiting aggressively for network engineers, systems engineers, and software engineers — VP of Network Engineering is a priority hire.
- **Building the Financial Layer**: Developing the payment and capital access infrastructure that makes the coordination model work at scale.
- **Employer Brand & Talent Attraction**: Hiring their first Founding Recruiter indicates a deliberate effort to build a strong talent brand and scalable recruiting operation.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Work from anywhere you do your best thinking; team spans London, Cape Town, Nairobi, France, Spain, and Poland.
- **Founder-Led Environment**: Direct partnership with founders on hiring philosophy, compensation strategy, and company direction — high ownership, low bureaucracy.
- **Meaningful Equity**: Early-stage equity with standard vesting, competitive salary.
- **Massive Impact**: Connecting the next billion people to the internet in Africa — work that literally changes lives at continental scale.
- **Engineering-Heavy Culture**: 50% of current staff are technical (network, systems, software engineering). Tech stack includes Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React, TypeScript, Python, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, and more.
- **AI-Ready Environment**: Comfort with AI-assisted tools and automation workflows is valued.
- **High-Growth Trajectory**: 35 open roles vs 11 current employees signals hypergrowth — early employees will define the company's culture and processes.

## Sources
1. [share.inc](https://www.share.inc/)
2. [share.inc/mission](https://www.share.inc/mission)
3. [newsroom.share.inc](https://newsroom.share.inc/newsroom.html)
4. [LinkedIn - Share](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shareinternet)
5. [Ashby Jobs - Share](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/share/0e7f6cce-d3b0-4444-a69f-ee4f677164c8)

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