Senior Software Developer at Andela

In addition to your client work, you will also serve as a mentor and technical resource to Andela developers outside of your team.

Key Responsibilities

The specific responsibilities of the Senior Software Developer position include:

• Interfacing with your client to understand their business, goals and visions for products being supported by an Andela Team
• Performing high quality work that not only meets the need of the client, but surpasses it.
• If you are managing a team:
• Ensuring that our developers are able to understand the business context and value of their tasks, as well as how it impacts users.
• Prioritizing the work that your team is responsible for to ensure that you’re always working on the highest value work that helps your clients meet their objectives.
• Working with our engineers to decompose high level stories into smaller, specific tasks and provide high level design support to help them understand how to solve specific coding challenges.
• Provide technical guidance and oversight to ensure that the work delivered is in accordance with the technical standards of your client.
• Encouraging a collaborative team environment
• Regularly reporting the status of your team both to your client as well as senior members of Andela’s Success Department

Qualifications & Characteristics

As the ideal candidate for this role you:

• Are active in the technology ecosystem in your city ex: you organize meet ups, speak at conferences and are active on github
• Are able to pass our Tech Skills Assessment
• Have a four-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university
• Have at least 5 years of experience working in software development
• Have built and deployed web applications using Ruby on Rails, Django or a JavaScript stack
• Have built iOS or Android mobile apps
• Have experience leading technical teams using Agile methodologies
• Have experience working remotely as an effective member of a team
• Have a vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written)
• A strong desire to mentor other developers
• Have the ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Have strong leadership skills.
• Strongly motivated by our social mission of training 100,000 young Africans in the next 10 years.