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Echo is a Nairobi-based firm that builds and deploys mobile-first communication, interaction, research and management information tools. We are a small team of dedicated engineers, user experience designers, M&E experts and project managers, and we love what we do. Through our unique combination of experience designing products for emerging markets, t...
Role
This role sits within our growing, dynamic engineering team as we expand the capabilities and the usability of our products.
Our team enjoys a flexible work environment where productivity, creativity, and collaboration are thoroughly rewarded. We invest heavily in personal development -- you will learn when you join Echo, and you'll learn fast.
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Terms of Employment and Location
This is a full-time position based at our offices in Lavington, Nairobi. Compensation is competitive.
Key Areas of Responsibility
Join engineering team tasked with continuous development of the Echo Mobile platform
Contribute to design, development, and maintenance of features on the Echo Mobile platform, including new feature development, fixing bugs, code review and scalability testing
Work directly with Echo Mobile’s customers to understand usability, address issues, and receive feedback
Monitoring of cloud platform and mobile network operator (MNO) infrastructure
Work directly with our support team, customers and vendors to resolve issues
Report in daily scrums on milestones, progress towards tasks, barriers needing attention, etc. Log all development activities inside Echo's task management system
Guide and influence the direction of the product. Creative ideas are always welcome.
Requirements
Highly skilled developer with a proven track record driving projects to completion
Self-managed, proactive, and good at working with a small team
Passionate about technology, technical products and the creative process
Either living in Nairobi or willing to relocate
Extremely proficient at managing time to meet milestones
Experience developing scalable web-based applications on cloud platforms
Experience developing web applications in Python
Experience in basic frontend UI design (jQuery, React, Backbone, Angular, etc)
Please highlight if you have experience in:
Google Cloud Platform
React / Redux
Android Java development
Please include a link to any Python, Android, or web frontend app that you were the primary developer or architect of, if available.
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