Posted: 2026-07-27 14:11:11  Deadline: Not Specified   Remote   Salary: Confidential

FinAgra is an agrifintech company building the technology and operating infrastructure needed to scale commercial agriculture in emerging markets. The company combines financing, agronomy, field operations and technology to make farming operations more productive, controlled and investable. FinAgra is seeking an experienced and hands on VP R&D to lead the development of its AI driven operations platform and build the engineering team behind it.

Position Details

Position: VP R&D.
Employment Type: Full Time.
Location: Remote.
Department: Tech and Product.
Benefits: Competitive compensation, flexible working arrangement, direct business impact, and the opportunity to build digital infrastructure for commercial agriculture.

Key Responsibilities

Own the technical architecture, engineering roadmap and delivery of FinAgra's operations platform.
Build reliable AI driven workflows that combine rules, structured data, automation and human decision making.
Design modular and testable systems for operational planning, execution, exception handling and continuous replanning.
Ensure automated decisions are explainable, auditable and based on approved data and business rules.
Define integrations and data ownership across internal and third party systems.
Establish engineering best practices for testing, deployment, observability, security and production reliability.
Lead, mentor and grow the engineering team while remaining technically hands on.
Work closely with Product and operational teams to transform complex business processes into practical software solutions.

Qualifications

Experience as a VP R&D, Head of Engineering, Engineering Director, technical founder or similar senior technical leadership role.
Strong hands on experience in backend engineering and software architecture.
Experience building AI driven operational systems, intelligent automation, agentic workflows or decision support platforms.
Experience combining AI or LLM based reasoning with deterministic logic, rules engines or structured workflows.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, data architecture and cloud infrastructure.
Experience building reliable systems with approvals, traceability and auditability.
Proven ability to lead engineering teams and deliver complex products in a startup environment.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with non technical teams.
Experience in operations research, workflow orchestration, logistics, supply chain, fintech operations, AI evaluation, agriculture or ERP systems will be an added advantage.

Application Process

Interested and qualified candidates should submit their application through the following link:

VP R&D at FinAgra (Instructions and Application)

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.