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About the company...
Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the lifeblood of many cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and disorganized. At the click of a button, the company provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first transportation platform for Africa’s booming young population. On the high-frequency use of their transportation service, the company is providing value to consumers, our drivers, and passengers, with additional financial services, payments, and other on-demand services such as food and grocery delivery to keep Africa moving forward.
Based in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, they are a venture-funded Series B company that is already having a huge impact on millions of people in Africa. They have a passionate and highly engaged team based in East and West Africa and are looking to quickly grow it to speed-up the organization’s growth and make sure they can revolutionize transportation, on-demand services and payments in Africa’s cities.
About the role...
They are always trying to work with the latest technology are obsessed with the user experience. They follow agile methodologies in a team split into 3 main products: Mobile Apps for drivers, passengers, and partners (merchants, agents & vendors), and a Company Admin Portal. This role role is to manage the company's back end software systems. In this role you will be expected to perform the following:
Candidates based in Uganda/Kenya/Nigeria are encouraged to applied. Location is flexible.
Responsibilities:
- Design, execute, and maintain back end software engineering applications. This includes microservices, API's, devops, and databases.
- Supervise training and development of back end software engineering staff.
- Ensure software deliverables are held up to the company standard through code reviews, and managing software quality assurance
- Assign work to back end software engineering personnel and manage their performance.
- Support to recruit engineering personnel, technical staffing and project teams formation.
- Supervise back end engineering deliverables.
- Manage continuing support and provide system metrics for back end technical stack.
- Present practical input for strategic technology decisions.
- Support preparation of Technology Roadmap.
- Comply with all tech, product departmental as well as company best practices.
- Help translation of business requirements into technical needs and actions.
- Supervise reporting responsibility for independent software contractors, software engineers and outsourcing partners.
- Ensure software engineering personnel is suitably trained to perform all job functions and suitably use project and software related tools.
- Help determine and design system specifications & standards.
- Investigate, and analyze technology improvements, upgrades, and modifications.
- You will develop features across multiple subsystems including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
- You will design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
- You will analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
- You will assist with the packaging and support deployment of releases.
Experience:
- 5 + years of software development experience
- Experience with functional programming a plus
- Vast knowledge for backend software programming languages such as Elixir, Node JS, and PHP
- Experience with working with SQL and NOSQL database technologies
- Demonstrated experience producing readable and testable code
- Have extensive experience working hands-on in an agile environment
- Cares about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code
- Can identify, debug and resolve complex production issues
- Experience with distributed systems, architectural patterns/styles, and design patterns would be an advantage.
- Critical thought, analytical thinking and good communication skills
- Capacity to work with members of the team working in different countries
- Good organizational and time management abilities
- Great attention to detail and a results driven approach
- Willing to go above and beyond; we would like someone who wants everything under control and wants to try all the different possibilities that can happen
- An attitude of accountability and knowledge-sharing. You enjoy reviewing others' code and sharing your knowledge
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Empathy, respect and a big sense of humor; we are people before engineers
- English communication skills
Perks
- Remote working
- A passionate, inspirational and aspirational team→ Teamwork is in our core values
- Grow yourself, learning is a habit. We empower people and we want you to grow with us. Tell us the areas you wish to improve in and if it makes sense for the business, we'll do what we can to help you do just that
- Flexible work hours - Pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time. It's about delivery!
- Be part of a passionate team that is changing the mobility landscape in Africa and it's improving millions of lives
- Opportunity to travel to East Africa and interact with the product and our multi-cultural team
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