Build Technology
That Respects People.

We are a small Ghana-based team building software, hardware, and AI that works for real people. Bootstrapped since 2019. Growing. Looking for builders who care about craft and context.

We exist to bridge innovation and humanity.

Orcta transforms complex challenges into reliable, well-designed products that serve real users and evolve with purpose. Every decision is guided by empathy, technical clarity, and long-term thinking. We design and engineer thoughtful digital and embedded systems that balance performance, reliability, and human experience.

Technology should understand people,
not the other way around.

Empathy First

Design and build for real people in real contexts. Every product starts with user context, not a specification.

We Ship Real Things

From Orcta Go real-time dispatch to IoT sensors in cold storage. We ship working systems, not slides.

Think Long-Term

We decline work that does not match our mission. Bootstrapped means we focus on what matters and build to last.

How we work.

Small ships, fast turns

We keep teams small so everyones work matters. No layers between you and impact.

Empathy first

We design for real people in real contexts - low-bandwidth, mid-range phones, Ghanaian infrastructure.

Reliability by default

Stable, predictable systems our users can trust. We do not ship things we would not rely on ourselves.

Say no to the wrong things

We decline work that does not match our mission. Focus is a decision you make every day.

Ship early, iterate

Simplify, ship, learn, improve. Perfectionism is the enemy of progress.

Know what good looks like

We have taste and standards. We know when something is right and when it isnt.

Build things that last

Put care into the foundation. Do not leave it for future-us to fix.

Long-term over quick wins

We build partnerships, not transactions. Sustainable pace, durable decisions.

The people you would work with.

Every one of us came to Orcta from a different path.

MA

Mark Agyemang

CEO & Co-founder, UI/UX

Product designer and UI/UX specialist. Sets the product vision and owns every pixel that ships.

HA

Harrison Ankah

Co-founder & PM, OrctaGo

Software and hardware engineer turned product lead. Runs OrctaGo (go.orctatech.com) end to end.

BR

Bright

Embedded Systems Lead

Owns our IoT and hardware stack. Designs and deploys embedded systems for real-world environments.

BK

Bernard Katamanso

CTO

Architects the platform and infrastructure. Deep experience building developer tooling for teams across Africa.

Open roles

Three roles. Each one carries real ownership from day one. We are looking for people who care about what they build and how it works for the person using it.

Frontend Lead

TypeScriptReactReact NativeUI/UX
Tarkwa / Remote-friendly Full-time

Own everything the user sees and touches, from component architecture and state management to making sure the interface makes sense to the person using it.

What you will do day to day

  • Own the frontend codebase, the component architecture, how state is managed, and how errors are communicated to users
  • Make structural decisions about how UI is built across the product
  • Hold the line on interface quality when there is pressure to just ship
  • Work without a dedicated designer. You need enough sensibility to make layout and interaction decisions independently.

You are probably a fit if

  • Your JavaScript fundamentals are solid
  • You have looked at something you built and felt uncomfortable because it was unclear to use
  • You think about what a user believes is happening, not just what is actually happening
  • You notice good and bad interfaces in the wild and have opinions about why
  • Design is something you are developing or genuinely want to, not something to hand off

Send a short email to engineering@orctatech.com with subject Frontend Lead - [Your Name]. Tell us who you are, what you have built, and why this role specifically. No CV required.

Apply for this role

Backend Lead

Node.js/DenoPostgreSQLPostGISAPI DesignGo
Tarkwa / Remote-friendly Full-time

Own the data layer and the core API - the schema, the write paths, the queries, and everything between them.

What you will do day to day

  • Design and review anything that touches the database
  • Own the API contracts that the frontend and external clients depend on
  • Be the person who catches data integrity issues before they become incidents
  • Think about what happens when a transaction fails halfway, when two requests hit the same record, or when the database slows under load

You are probably a fit if

  • You think carefully about schema design before writing a single migration
  • You have dealt with a real backend problem in production and came out knowing more
  • Correctness matters to you more than cleverness
  • You have debugged a real data issue and came out with a runbook, not just a fix
  • You are uncomfortable shipping something you cannot monitor

Send a short email to engineering@orctatech.com with subject Backend Lead - [Your Name]. Tell us who you are, what you have built, and why this role specifically. No CV required.

Apply for this role

Systems & Fullstack Engineer

TypeScriptReactNode.js/DenoDockerCI/CDGo
Tarkwa / Remote-friendly Full-time

Work across the stack and own how the system runs - deployments, pipelines, infrastructure, and security.

What you will do day to day

  • Work across frontend, backend, and infrastructure wherever the work needs you
  • Own deployments, CI pipelines, Docker configuration, and making sure things do not silently break
  • Share security responsibility directly with the CTO - not a separate concern, part of how you build
  • Grow toward understanding how the whole system fits together: internal tooling, infrastructure decisions, architectural trade-offs

You are probably a fit if

  • You are comfortable picking up whatever layer the work requires without needing a defined lane
  • Deployment and infrastructure questions interest you rather than intimidate you
  • You notice the things that are not explicitly anyones responsibility and pick them up anyway
  • You want to eventually understand the whole system, not just the parts you built

Send a short email to engineering@orctatech.com with subject Systems & Fullstack Engineer - [Your Name]. Tell us who you are, what you have built, and why this role specifically. No CV required.

Apply for this role

Transparent, fast, and humane.

No ghosting. No LeetCode. No take-home assignments that take 10 hours. Every candidate gets a reply within 48 hours. We evaluate what you can build, not where you learned to build it.

1

Apply

5 min

Fill out a short form. No cover letter needed. Link us to something you have built.

1–2

Human review

24 hrs

A real person reads your application. Everyone gets a reply within 24 hours.

2–3

Casual chat

30 min

30-minute conversation. No whiteboarding. No algorithm puzzles. We talk about what you build and what we are working on.

3–5

Practical session

90 min

90-minute collaborative problem-solving session on a real Orcta problem. Not a take-home, not a test.

5-7

Offer

-

Decision within 48 hours. No exploding offers. We want you to feel good about saying yes.

Within 7 days from application to offer.

Proudly based in Ghana.

We are based in Tarkwa, Western Region, with remote-friendly flexibility. Most of the team works from Tarkwa, Accra, or wherever in Ghana they are most effective.

Competitive salary in GHS
Health insurance
Equipment stipend
Internet allowance
20 days paid annual leave
Annual learning budget
You ship real work, not Jira tickets

Not seeing the right role?

We are always open to meeting great people who think they would add something to Orcta.

engineering@orctatech.com