Senior Full Stack Engineer at d.light

Job Location: Preference for Nairobi but also open to other locations

Reporting to: Head of Software Engineering

Background and Position Description:

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you will be responsible for a software ecosystem that is providing hundreds of thousands of homes with the ability to pay for solar power and light for the first time. You will be comfortable bridging backend, frontend and quality requirements and communicating with technical and non-technical resources of all types.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build advanced applications for the PayGo business.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs.
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Extensive work experience in a fintech setting handling mobile money integrations, SMS, USSD and other Telco-grade integrations.
• Minimum of 5-8 years Java/Python/Scala/Object Oriented and JS web development experience.
• Expert level object-oriented programming with a firm grasp of design patterns.
• A passion for staying on top of industry trends and technologies.
• Expert level knowledge of HTML, CSS, JSON, Angular and Javascript.
• Deep knowledge of Javascript practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience.
• Extensive experience with relational databases (PostGres, Mysql).
• Experience optimizing and refactoring application code.
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with experience exercising mature judgment.
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.
• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks.
• A desire to be personally responsible for production-level code.
• Deep knowledge of version control and paradigms around it such as gitflow.
• Writing non-blocking code, and resorting to advanced techniques such as multithreading, when needed.
• Experience with DevOps environment and tools including CI/CD, test automation, release management.
• Experience with cloud environment apps (AWS, Google, etc).
• Large scale web development experience for performance, stability, reliability, and scale.
• Experience with product management tools and software, prior experience with Atlassian is an advantage.
• An ability to describe technical details to both engineering and non-engineering audiences.
• Business driven, people focused, with exceptional influencing skills; excellent organizational, multi-tasking, presentation and time-management skills.
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits.