Latest Recruitment at Kyosk Digital Services

Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the full SDLC of the team output.  

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across

the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a strong technologist, innovator and an analytical problem solver. You will need to develop high quality, resilient, scalable software.

Key Responsibilities

•  Play a leading role in the design and development of software solutions
•  Triage, investigate and resolve errors and bugs
•  Adhere to, promote and help to improve Kyosk's development processes
•  Perform Peer Code reviews
•  Mentor less experienced software engineers

Minimum Technical Requirements:

•  A minimum of 6 years proven work experience as a Front-end developer;
•  A bachelor's degree in computer science; Engineering or related field;
•  Strong working experience with JavaScript, Angular;
•  Familiarity with Figma and/or able to convert wireframe/designs to html/CSS/SCSS/Angular page;
•  Hands on experience with markup languages;
•  Familiarity with browser testing and debugging ex: playwright/cypress;
•  In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment);
•  Understanding of layout aesthetics;
•  Organized and able to follow best practices regarding code quality, testing and code reviews;
•  An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment;
•  Familiarity with agile (scrum) environments;
•  Comfortable with working remotely;
•  Nice to have: experience in working with Launch Darkly;
•  Able to work in an environment where new features are built and applications are continuously deployed;
•  Experience with SCSS, experience with Ionic and an understanding of security on single page applications.
•  Experience with GraphQl and integration with backend team

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

•  Strong work ethic
•  Focus on delivery
•  Punctual
•  Works independently
•  Expectation management
•  Passion for learning
•  Ability to lead a discussion with clients in a professional manner
•  Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates
•  Proactively accommodates value chain outside of sphere of responsibility
•  Ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely
•  Can take the lead on small projects

Desired Technical Competencies:

•  6+ years of software development experience
•  3+ year of experience of the full SDLC
•  A bachelor's degree in computer science; Engineering or related field
•  Strong working experience with JavaScript, Angular
•  Familiarity with Figma and/or able to convert wireframe/designs to html/CSS/SCSS/Angular page
•  Hands on experience with markup languages
•  In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment)
•  Understanding of layout aesthetics
•  Organized and able to follow best practices regarding code quality, testing and code reviews
•  An ability to perform well in a fast-paced environment
•  Familiarity with agile (scrum) environments
•  Comfortable with working remotely
•  Nice to have: experience in working with Launch Darkly
•  Able to work in an environment where new features are built and applications are continuously deployed
•  Experience with SCSS, experience with Ionic and an understanding of security on single page applications
•  Practitioner of the shift-left approach
•  Experience introducing automated tests into a code base
•  Experience architecting, designing and implementing a software system

Desired Behavioral Competencies:

•  Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development
•  Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
•  You have integrity: You do what you say you will do and make no excuses.
•  Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organization.

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Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Software Engineer II - Android to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a supporting role in the full SDLC of the team's output.  

As a Software Engineer II, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.
To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about using technology to solve real world problems. You will contribute to high quality, resilient, scalable software using industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

•  Contribute to the design of technical solutions
•  Deliver working software implemented from technical designs
•  Investigate and resolve errors
•  Adhere to Kyosk's development processes

Minimum Technical Requirements:

•  3 years of software development experience
•  Experience working with Agile methodologies
•  Experience with administrative tools, e.g. Issue Tracking, Wikis, etc
•  Working knowledge of dev tool chain (e.g. IDE, CI/CD, version control)
•  Android: Working knowledge of 
•  Basic knowledge of containerization and orchestration
•  Experience implementing components of a system from technical designs/specifications

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

•  Strong work ethic
•  Focus on delivery
•  Punctual
•  Works mostly independently
•  Passion for learning
•  Considerate of value chain outside of sphere of responsibility

Desired Technical Competencies:

•  3-5 years experience of the full SDLC (analysis, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, documentation, triage)
•  Kotlin - Extensive experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin, including familiarity with Kotlin's advanced features and integration with Android SDK.
•  XML for UI Implementation - Proficiency in using XML for designing UI layouts, styles, strings, menus, preferences, drawables, animations, navigation, and data storage in Android applications.
•  Product Design Implementation - Proven ability to collaborate with design teams to accurately translate mobile app mockups and specifications into functional user interfaces.
•  SQLite Experience - Proficiency in SQLite for Android, including database creation and management, executing CRUD operations, building complex queries, managing transactions, using prepared statements, designing schemas, validating data, utilizing helper classes, tuning performance, handling migrations, managing backups/restores, and testing data access code.
•  JUnit - Demonstrated expertise in implementing unit testing for Android applications using JUnit - added advantage 
•  Apollo Client for GraphQL - Experience integrating Apollo Client in Android applications for effective GraphQL API interactions and data management - added advantage
•  Truth - Experience with Truth, an assertion library, to enhance test readability and maintainability in Android application development - added advantage
•  Mockk - Familiarity with Mockk for effective mocking of classes in Kotlin unit testing, aiding in test efficiency and reliability.Knowledge of test-driven development practices is essential - added advantage
•  Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products - added advantage
•  Basic knowledge of the shift-left approach
•  Working knowledge of system non-functional requirements (e.g. code readability, maintainability, scalability, extensibility, testability, etc)

Desired Behavioral Competencies

•  Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates
•  Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development
•  Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
•  You have integrity: you do what you say you will do and make no excuses. 
•  Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organisation.

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Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Software Engineering Manager to provide leadership to a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will be responsible for all aspects of a team’s performance and success while forging strong, collaborative relationships with other product and technology stakeholders.  

As a Software Engineering Manager, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a great communicator, innovator, influencer, and an analytical problem solver. You will need to think and act fast, deal with ambiguity and constraints, and help to develop ideas into products that work on a global scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership: Be the leader who your team looks up to. Improve processes to make your team more effective. Develop knowledge and domain expertise. Take ownership of what you and the team build and coordinate efforts across the team to ensure efficient completion of tasks. Eliminate obstacles that prevent your team from performing optimally.
• People Management: Actively seek to build a great team. Ensure effective recruitment, training and development programs are adopted to promote productivity, retention, motivation and morale. Manage the career path and goals of your team members, conducting regular 1-on-1s and having monthly performance dialogues. Review candidate profiles and conduct interviews keeping Kyosk’s growth and culture objectives in mind.
• Performance Management: Set and review performance and development goals for your team. Identify timeframes and readiness for promotion of direct reports; solicit cross functional feedback in support of promotions and employee rewards. Coach and mentor engineers, showing them the next steps in their careers. Craft a winning culture built on collaboration and shared accomplishments while having fun along the way.
• Integrator: As a senior member of Kyosk’s Core engineering team you will work to harmoniously integrate the various engineering teams through the consistent adoption of tools, methodologies and processes. You will create the glue that holds the engineering teams together in their ways of working.
• Capacity Planning: Establish staffing needs and a hiring strategy by working collaboratively with the broader Product and Technology management team. Balance the size and composition of your teams against the expected deliverables while ensuring optimal team performance.
• Strategic Thinking: Plan and execute long term strategies that benefit the team and their product(s). Work closely with your manager and other senior members of the Product and Engineering team to ensure that the roadmap is clearly understood and translated into requirements that the Core team should drive forward. 
• Technical Delivery: Take ownership of the progress, costs, and quality of delivering engineering outcomes. Adopt, enforce, and contribute to the agile processes that define Kyosk’s way of working to deliver multiple product releases at scale. Own and refine the processes that your team uses to build and support products within the business. 
• Technical Monitoring: Build a deep understanding of how our products work and are built. Though you will not be expected to code regularly or at all, you need to grasp code and architecture concerns. Identify and track metrics that can be used to ensure objectives are met and recommend process improvements. Understand engineering metrics and seek to improve them.
• Process Improvement: Regularly monitor, determine and recommend methods to streamline and improve development processes and procedures. Spearhead various research and development initiatives to identify opportunities for new projects and improved processes.
• Stakeholder Management: Prepare and deliver various engineering-related presentations, both internally and externally. Act as the point of contact with the business and technical leadership communicating their priorities to the team and vice versa.

Minimum Requirements & Key Skills:

• 7+ years of software development or technical product management experience with the full software development life-cycle: design, coding, testing, mocking, deployment and maintenance of software to real production environments;
• 3+ years as a software engineering manager with people management responsibilities and a track record of hiring and growing a talented team of engineers;
• Experience working with micro services, Kubernetes/Docker, and GCP/AWS services;
• Experience working with Agile methodologies, Scrum and demonstrated experience in managing end-to-end software development lifecycles.
• Proficiency with tools of the product and engineering trade for issue tracking, technical documentation, diagramming, roadmapping, project management, CI/CD, etc.
• The ability to align people behind a common goal. You can explain and materialize objectives of the team;
• Working knowledge of large-scale service-oriented infrastructure and the design of scalable, highly available systems in the real world;
• Strong overall knowledge of development and quality assurance methodologies;
• Ability to successfully collaborate with multiple technical functions in the areas of infrastructure, devops, architects and other software engineers;
• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills

Desired Technical Competencies

• Conversational knowledge of modern programming language and frameworks like Java, Angular, C++, Android, Python, etc;
• Experience organizing, leading, and growing an engineering team or organization from scratch preferred;
• Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products is a plus
• Exposure to micro services, Kubernetes/Docker, and GCP/AWS services strongly preferred;
• You’ve worked with 3rd parties to integrate and scale products and services for rapid product growth.
• You have a genuine knack for numbers and how they are represented, and you are super comfortable with Excel and/or Google Sheets.

Desired Behavioral Competencies

• You have experience in handling the pressure of fast-paced environments typical of a tech startup environment where you wear multiple hats and have access to limited resources 
• You have a strong desire for continuous improvement
• You can work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
• You have a passion for digital products 
• You can stay motivated through difficult challenges, and occasional long hours
• Your passion is contagious, and you use it to inspire the rest of the team
• You have equal empathy for internal users, and our target market of informal retailers
• You have a strong work ethic and exhibit genuine care for the team and their products, with a willingness to go to any necessary length to ensure their success
• You have integrity: You do what you say you will do and make no excuses. 
• You develop a deep understanding and respect for what each team member is responsible for, and trust them to do their job
• Your confidence and experience make you trust your instinct and communicate persuasively. You know when to make decisions (even when others might disagree) vs when to build consensus, and you can articulate the strategy and business rationale behind your decisions.
• You are comfortable taking the blame if something goes wrong, and equally quick to give credit to the rest of the team when it goes well
• You are detail-oriented, process-driven, and organized, and can stay two steps ahead of the work your team is doing
• You understand devops as culture not as a role, and seek to automate manual processes where it makes sense.

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Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the full SDLC of the team's output.  

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a strong technologist, innovator and an analytical problem solver. You will need to develop high quality, resilient, scalable software.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in the design and development of  software solutions
• Triage, investigate and resolve errors
• Adhere to, promote and help to improve Kyosk's development processes
• Code reviews
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Experiment with new technologies/solutions and develop a PoC

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 6 years of software development experience
• 2 years experience of the full SDLC (analysis, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, documentation, triage)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Proficiency with administrative tools, e.g. Issue Tracking, Wikis, etc
• Advanced level user of dev tool chain (e.g. IDE, CI/CD, version control)
• Backend dev: Advanced knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate.
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration
• Experience implementing the microservices design pattern
• Working knowledge of any cloud platform
• Experience designing and implementing a system from scratch
• Experience implementing complex automated tests (unit, integration, performance, etc)
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of system non-functional requirements (e.g. code readability, maintainability, scalability, extensibility, testability, etc), and can weigh the pros and cons of a solution w.r.t. non-functional requirements.

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

• Strong work ethic
• Focus on delivery
• Punctual
• Works independently
• Expectation management
• Passion for learning
• Ability to lead a discussion with clients in a professional manner
• Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates
• Proactively accommodates value chain outside of sphere of responsibility
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely
• Can take the lead on small projects

Desired Technical Competencies

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 3+ year of experience of the full SDLC
• Working knowledge of Kafka
• Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products
• Experience using GCP
• Working knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes for orchestration
• Practitioner of the shift-left approach
• Experience introducing automated tests into a code base
• Experience architecting, designing and implementing a software system

Desired Behavioral Competencies

• Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development
• Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
• You have integrity: You do what you say you will do and make no excuses.
• Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organisation.