Ready to change the way content is generated and shared in Kenya? Join one of the fastest growing sites in Kenya. With over 3.8 million monthly readers, your work is certain to be seen! Hivisasa is looking for a leader to guide our team that will create a product our readers and writers will enjoy and that we will love developing!
Compensation: Competitive Duration: Open ended, full time
Current Stack: Express Node.js, Java 8, Elasticsearch, SQL, Spring framework (Spring-boot, Spring data, Spring security, Spring XD), Redis, Angular
Requirements:
10+ years experience in software development
3+ years leading technical projects and teams
Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
You are:
Passionate building and running high performing teams
Highly independent and opinionated about how and what to work on
Ready to tackle challenges end to end and learn new skills
Passionate about establishing good design processes and care about the implementation
Experienced in managing teams following Agile principles and a process that fits the given team
You enter conversations with strong opinions, weakly held
You will:
You’ll be the leader of the Hivisasa tech team. The perfect blend of project manager, architect, QA, and developer, you’ll work with the CTO to ensure tech runs smooth at Hivisasa. You will be a key decision maker when it comes to tech and architecture decisions. You will be responsible for estimating and keeping to project timelines following Agile principles.
Nice to have experience:
Heroku, ElasticSearch, Continuous Integration, Angular, Linux, Redis, Opera Mini, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Kibana, Facebook Ads, Facebook APIs
Ad networks (Google Ads, Monetize More, Taboola)
News media or blog sites and related challenges such as time sensitive SEO
Experience working on sites with millions of pageviews per day, load testing, scaling
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