One Acre Fund Senior FullStack Engineer (Kotlin/NodeJS) Jobs in Kenya

One Acre Fund Senior FullStack Engineer (Kotlin/NodeJS) Jobs in Kenya

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.

About the Role

Our passionate development team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments and analyzing loan repayments.

Specific challenges that our mobile solutions have to overcome include:

High usability requirements - targeting users with low technical proficiency

Offline-first, to provide good experience with no or limited network connectivity

Ability to run on cheap hardware

Our mobile technology is Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Couchbase Lite, JUnit, Sentry, and our tooling landscape is based on GitHub / JIRA / Slack / Azure DevOps / MS App Center.

Responsibilities

Report to our Field Services Team lead

Work as part of a small, collaborative, and agile team of mobile developers

Design, document, test, and support our mobile solutions according to our standards

Ensure smooth progress of your projects

Participate in your Agile team's lifecycle

Contribute to your department's improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting different ways

of working and developing

Provide technical mentoring to junior team members

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance.

We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

6+ years of experience in Software Development

Expert level in one or more mobile frameworks, ideally Android using Kotlin/Java, with 3+ years of experience

Experience developing back-end APIs in Node.js using JavaScript (TypeScript). NestJS will be a plus.

Be conversant with Android App Architecture,, including View Models and Dependency Injection with HILT

Nice to have: Experience in Jetpack Compose , Jetpack Room, Jetpack Data Store and other Jetpack /Android X Libraries

A mindset of testing and automation

Experience working in Agile

A passion for solving problems and a customer mindset

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; One Acre Fund Senior FullStack Engineer (Kotlin/NodeJS) Jobs in Kenya

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