Senior Product Engineer/Front End Engineer at AJUA (Formerly mSurvey)

Job Description

• This role is responsible for building outstanding SaaS products to drive the success of businesses in Africa and beyond. As a Senior Product Engineer, you will build various aspects of Ajua product suite to service and ensure the impact on Ajua Clients’ business.

Job Responsibilities 

• Lead Ajua’s product suite toward the Integrated Customer Experience Platform through an MVP launch and beyond
• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers and designers through an agile development process
• Maintain and improve Ajua platform uptime, stability, usability, and performance
• Design, guide, mentor and challenge product architecture and design with others;
• Understand customer pain points through qualitative and quantitative research, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently
• Help design simple but feature-rich customer experiences that delight Ajua clients
• Be an owner of features and products, end to end- from concept to launch to user adoption
• Work within aggressive timelines to prioritize your work for maximum impact
• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features;
• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability;
• Analyze requirements thoroughly; Advise and develop solutions that solve the true customers' pain;
• Perform testing and unit testing for delivering quality work;
• Acquire technical skill and knowledge continuously and aggressively, and help the team to develop the same
• Properly document development work completed;

Qualifications

Essential Requirements

• Hands-on product management experience with both web and mobile products. 
• Proven track record of building products that users love.
• Strong understanding and experience in Javascript and frameworks like React
• Experience with customer research and product analytics.
• Experience solving complex business problems in a scalable manner.
• Entrepreneurial attitude and deep empathy for our customers.
• Prior experience building SaaS products for SMEs and Large Enterprises. 
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills and ability to interact persuasively with engineering and other teams.
• Affinity for a fast-paced, early-stage environment.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and distributed systems
• Open Source project contributions are a plus
• Love building things and shipping them, truly making them work in the best way possible
• Individuals with a love for the African continent who want to be part of the team driving a business revolution