Senior Software Engineer - API at Gro Intelligence

We are looking for highly-motivated, intellectually curious people who are hungry for personal growth. Successful candidates have versatile talents and are excited to work in a fast-paced, demanding, and constantly evolving entrepreneurial environment. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer - API to join our office in Nairobi.

• Leading the development of high quality, high performance software
• Data API design and service implementation
• Data storage architecture and optimization
• Implement sophisticated but easy data visualizations and interactions

Qualifications:

• Technical leadership experience
• Very strong computer science fundamentals (data structures and algorithms)
• System design experience
• Very proficient in at least two of: Javascript, Python, Java, C++
• Knowledge of Node.js
• Experience using RESTful APIs
• Experience with large scale systems, parallel computing, distributed storage
• Bachelor's level degree in computer science, engineering, math or related field; or relevant work experience 
• 5+ years software engineering experience

Bonus Points:

• Experience with natural language processing (NLP)
• Understanding of relational databases and distributed databases (e.g. Postgres, Cassandra, Bigtable)
• Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Graduate degree / Research experience