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Software Engineer

One Acre Fund

Posted 2 months agoNairobi, Kenya and Kigali, Rwanda

Location

Nairobi, Kenya and Kigali, Rwanda

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Mid-Level

Category

Engineering

Job Description

About One Acre Fund Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post. About the Role Your role will be to design and perform moderate complexity technical development work, troubleshoot production issues, assist others, and contribute improvements to the team
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Requirements

  • 3+ years of development experience with a moderate level of autonomy
  • Proficiency in at least one major web or mobile front-end technology (Angular, React, Vue.js)
  • Proficiency in at least one major back-end language (.Net C#, Java, Go, NodeJS)
  • Comfortable with one or more database engines (Postgres, MongoDB, Couchbase)
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration
  • Experience working in Agile

Responsibilities

  • Attend and participate in all team meetings (scrum ceremonies)
  • Design and implement software of moderate complexity with a justification of the approach, considering designing for scale, fit for purpose, and long-term goals.
  • Create and run software tests (manual and automatic)
  • Remediate any issues discovered in one's own work
  • Break down and refine work packages into tasks
  • Confirm that the software is deployed successfully
  • Move work forward independently once it has been assigned
  • Own the quality of work deliverables
  • Adhere to appropriate quality processes
  • Solve problems mostly independently, with the ability to evaluate multiple options
  • Review work performed by other engineers (code reviews, etc.)
  • Suggest and implement improvements to work packages and work processes
  • Assist other engineers in solving problems
  • Create documentation describing work performed
  • Communicate clearly and frequently with stakeholders
  • Communicate across teams about issues
  • Resolve issues with a sense of urgency
  • Visit the field to build cultural fluency
  • Observe end users to understand how software is being used in the field

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