Senior Engineer at Echo Mobile

Job description

Role

This role sits within our growing, dynamic engineering team as we expand the capabilities and the usability of our products. We work across a diverse range of technologies.

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 will learn fast.

Reports To

• CTO
• 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

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of features on the Echo Mobile platform, including new feature development, bug fixing and code review.
• Work directly with our Support team, customers and vendors to address issues.
• Monitor the production cloud platform and resolve issues as they arise.
• Work with (or be part of!) our internal design team to prototype user interface changes, carry out usability testing, and implement the resulting designs.
• Report in daily scrums on milestones, progress towards tasks, barriers needing attention, etc. We use an agile development process, and process improvement suggestions are encouraged.
• 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 in web frontend user interface design and development using JavaScript (jQuery, React, Backbone, Angular, etc)

Please highlight if you have experience in the following technologies

These aren’t requirements but may help your application.

• Google Cloud Platform
• Python
• React / Redux
• Android development using Java or Kotlin
• Data analysis, or working with BigQuery or ElasticSearch for analysis purposes
• User interface design, prototyping and testing

Please include a link to any web or Android app that you were the primary developer or architect of, if available.