Front End Engineer at R4Kenya

Company Description

Our Client is a leading energy solutions provider specializing in off-grid electric product technology. The stated goal of the company is to be the best product supplier in distributed power generation and usage for homes, shops and offices in un- or under-electrified areas. They are seeking a Front End Engineer to join their rapidly growing team.

Job Description

• Coordinate: the overall designer of the system, responsible for product implementation from the "marginal" link to the "cloud" function
• Responsible for: human-machine interface and interface design between devices
• Responsible for: equipment status information message generation and cloud uplink logic design
• Responsible for: maintaining server operation and data security management
• Responsible for: collecting industry-related equipment technical information, participating in trade shows, supplier technical negotiations
• Participation: market demand assessment, new product import finger
• Participation: software development, platform framework deployment, customer experience and quality control

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or above: computer software, communication network, microelectronics, applied mathematics or similar majors
• More than 3 years of product development experience and employment industry: home appliances, power supply products, battery charging equipment, battery energy storage products, microgrid or off-grid electrical energy, electric bicycles and other related industries
• Familiarity: mainstream technologies, frameworks, and applications of the IoT space
• Familiarity: cloud platform mainstream software open source layer stack: Linux, Node.js, SQL
• Familiarity: Major programming languages:  JavaScript and PHP
• Familiarity: JavaScript frameworks primarily React Js.
• Familiarity: React Js state management technologies like Redux, Mobx
• Understanding: IoT Open Source Technology System MQTT, Eclipse,
• Awareness: mainstream platform technologies AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, and more.
• Awareness: Cloud Services, RESTful API, GraphQL APIs, Wordpress