Job Description
Who we are looking for:
We are presently setting up an office in Nairobi, Kenya and are looking for a senior developer to join our team. The candidate must demonstrate capabilities necessary for instructing, influencing, and otherwise enabling engineers to achieve company, project, and team-related goals (as they relate to technology). The demonstrated capabilities include but are not limited to the following:
A comprehensive knowledge of SCRUM Agile methodology for all software application development
Shows appetite and aptitude for owning responsibility for technical decisions and direction for one or many projects/teams.
Aptly manages team demands on his/her time and shows willingness/ability to delegate technical execution or responsibilities when appropriate.
Acts as a liaison or primary point of contact for communicating with client-side technical expertise.
Directs technical aspect of operations related to escalated client accounts or high severity issues as they affect or confront a project or team.
Attends to both business and technical considerations when designing solutions to project/team or company related issues.
Demonstrates interest in improving the company’s technical awareness, depth and use of technology across the business.
Participates in the evolution of company-level best practices, standards, and policies as it related to software development.
Provides thought-leadership as it relates to emerging technologies and readying our company and engineers for productively integrating the same into our business.
Candidate must be an expert at software development – quickly moving between complex analysis, design, development, testing, and debugging without breaking a sweat. Candidate must be comfortable navigating the technologies used within the organization, while remaining flexible to new directions and opportunities for learning.
The candidate must demonstrate a firm grasp of the following technologies:
5 years working experience
PHP 7+
MariaDB / MySQL, MongoDB
Laravel PHP Framework
HTML, CSS, JS, Twitter Bootstrap
Redis
React, React Native
Golang experience is a plus
Java experience is a plus
Blockchain experience is a plus
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