Software Engineer at Kopo Kopo Inc

About the role

We are looking for a software engineer who can come in and work on various projects that Kopo Kopo is currently undertaking. This is a hands-on software development role. It will encompass all aspects of the software development life-cycle working with a small engineering team and demands a high understanding of application design and architecture.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering team in developing the whole suite of Kopo Kopo products (web, Android, SMS)
• Be a major contributor to the Agile Software Methodology which we use at Kopo Kopo
• Work with partners on integrations that will require involvement in all aspects of the software development cycle from requirement analysis to implementation
• Develop software using our development stack which includes Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, Android, Apache, Nginx, Ubuntu Linux, AWS, React, Angular.js,
• Bootstrap and use tools such as JIRA, GitHub, Square Squash, Jenkins, Redis, New Relic among others

Desired Skills and Experience

• You should be comfortable with system architecture and component design and be able to use design patterns
• Develop features across multiple subsystems within our application by collaboration during requirements definition, designing, coding, testing and deployment
• Participate with engineering, operations and business teams to define plans for scaling, enhancing and standardizing our products
• Have the ability to leverage asynchronous programming, queueing, caching, logging security and persistence when appropriate
• Have experience in building data-driven applications using significant relational database engines as part of the application architecture
• Experience in working with systems with complex security models/implementations
• Understand how our applications (Rails, Android, SMS, USSD) operate, are structured, interact with external systems and how our customers use them
• Document proposed solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams etc.
• Ruby experience and front end JavaScript framework knowledge a plus.
• Be able to operate in an agile, fluid and uncertain environment wearing ‘multiple technological hats’
• Be able to thrive in a startup environment and deal with challenging deadlines
• Demonstrate success at having been able to ‘ship’ products individually or as part of a team.
• You need to be able to get things done.