Principal Software Engineer

Type: Full-time contractor (hours negotiable)
Location: Remote - Africa/Europe time zones (strong preference for candidates based in Africa)

• OpenFn is a public service automation platform, available to all as an open-source digital public good. Governments and NGOs use it to connect together complex systems—civic registries, microservices, AI tools, and more—into reliable workflows.
• Our team, Open Function Group, builds the OpenFn software platform and deploys it with partners worldwide, in 40+ countries and counting. We are a small, fully-remote, and mission-driven outfit backed exclusively by philanthropic capital.
• We deeply believe that everyone deserves brilliant digital services from their government. We think that AI offers an historic opportunity to realise this vision. That's why we're building OpenFn.

What you’ll be doing

Build the Claude Code for Public Services.