Build the backbone of a continent.
We are not hiring for roles. We are recruiting for a 30-year project. If you are a systems thinker who finds institutional complexity interesting rather than annoying, this might be where you belong.
The recruiting manifesto
Not a job board. A conviction.
Most career pages list open roles. This page describes the type of person Imhotep needs. We are not filling seats. We are building the team that will build African digital infrastructure for the next 30 years.
We move slowly because building infrastructure that lasts requires moving slowly. We say no to opportunities that do not align with the mission. We prioritize long-term correctness over short-term growth. We are not looking for people who want to move fast and break things. We are looking for people who want to build things that do not break.
The problems we work on are hard. They are not technical puzzles — they are institutional problems wrapped in technical complexity. You need to understand organizations, not just code. You need to understand constraints, not just features. You need to understand that the right answer is often the boring answer that actually works.
If that sounds like the kind of work you want to do for the next 30 years, read on.
Who we need
Systems thinkers. Infrastructure obsessives.
The type of person who succeeds at Imhotep has specific characteristics. Not skills — characteristics. Skills can be learned. Characteristics are harder to find.
The work
What you will actually do.
At Imhotep, you will work on infrastructure that matters. Not consumer apps. Not social networks. Not games. Infrastructure that governments, NGOs, banks, and enterprises depend on to operate.
The long game
30-year systems, not 18-month products.
We are not building for an exit. We are building to become the infrastructure layer that African institutions depend on. That means thinking in decades, not quarters. It means making decisions that position us for where the market will be in 10 years, not where it is today.
Expression of interest
No open roles. But we are always looking.
We do not have a hiring roadmap. We do not have open roles listed. But if you are the right person, we will make it work. Send an expression of interest with what you have built, what problems you are interested in, and why Imhotep.
Include: GitHub profile, what you have built, what problems interest you, and why you want to work on African infrastructure.
We do not build products. We build infrastructure that institutions depend on.
The systems you build at Imhotep will outlast your tenure. A hospital in Kigali will run on your code in 2035. A bank in Nairobi will process loans using the validation logic you wrote. An NGO in Burundi will track field operations on the platform you designed. That is the timescale we think in.
It also means we say no to a lot. No to features that add complexity without value. No to clients that do not align with the mission. No to growth that compromises the infrastructure. If you want to work on hard problems with long-term impact, this is the place. If you want to ship fast and move on, it is not.
Build systems that matter.
If you are looking for serious work on serious problems, send an expression of interest.