Search Wizard at Refunite

Responsibilities:

• Build out and improve the core search functionality of REFUNITE’s platform – we’re excited about areas like transliteration, natural language search, localized boosting based on a deep understanding of our user demographics, and more.
• Innovate on our highly scalable and responsive APIs.
• Architect and implement backend services that will power our web and mobile clients.
• Contribute to engineering and supporting operational needs, including testing, tool building and bug fixing problems that are impacting our users and/or technical teams.
• Work closely with the rest of the engineering team to bring awesome features into production.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of professional working experience.
• Experience in search related technologies such as SOLR, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Experience in databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc).
• Preference for Python.
• Able to take complex problems and break them down to smaller tasks.
• Evangelizing search paradigms to rest of organization and clearly communicate decisions around search.

We expect you to:

• Be a team player.
• Be creative, curious and challenge us and yourself with new solutions and great ideas and present your vision for how to improve search within REFUNITE.
• Be responsible and able to work independently as well as collaborate across the dev team and organisation in a hectic startup environment.

Benefits:

• Being part of an ambitious, skilled and agile team.
• A great and fun work environment with highly enthusiastic colleagues.
• Contributing to reconnecting refugees with their family and loved ones.

Place of work: Preferably Nairobi, but we are open to remote hiring for the right candidate.

• Include a link to your portfolio so we can see samples of your technical projects.
• NOTE: If you are considered for this position, we’ll send you a small pre-qualification technical exercise.