Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 06 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About Good Nature
Good Nature is a legume seed company founded to profitably move farmers out of poverty and into the middle class. We have designed our approach to working with smallholder farmers to be personal, yet scalable. We have overseen consistent annual growth in our supply chain (currently at 11,000+ small-scale seed producers), production, grower income (now 300% of baseline) and company revenue, as our growers learn and become more efficient.

Position Purpose
Technology is at the core of achieving our business objectives. Since 2021, we have been investing heavily in the development of a digital platform to both facilitate core business operations, as well as better integrate the fragmented ecosystem.
Our platform strategy focuses on integrating a number of traditional code, SaaS, and lowcode modules into one, holistic platform.
In the next 12 months, we will be seeking to dramatically expand this platform's capabilities. We are looking for an experienced backend software developer, who has experience in integration and systems architecture, who can help define and implement our solution development strategy as we move into the next phase of our digital journey.

Duties and responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
• Develop technical solutions in line with platform roadmap
• Develop back end components for multiple solutions within the GNA ecosystem using Node.js and Laravel.
• Integrate REST APIs for effective data flow between multiple platform modules (including into central ERP) in line with the platform integration architecture.
• Ensure data security throughout the platform..
• Work with and integrate into low-code platforms (airtable, bubble.io, appsheet etc) and SaaS solutions to store and manage multiple sources of data effectively.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to improve code quality.
• Use code versioning systems to store organisation source code

Time Requirement
65%
• Carry out database design by defining how data is stored, organised, and accessed within databases, considering factors like data volume, performance, and scalability against the product roadmap.
• Supporting in the technical aspect of our solution architecture strategy
• Work with the product team to support the creation of a comprehensive systems architecture strategy that aligns with the organisation's overall goals and technology roadmap.
• Provide a detailed overview of recommended architecture for our digital platform, including how different code, SaaS, lowcode modules, and varying databases, integrate and interact with each other.
• Recommend the appropriate technologies, frameworks, databases, and tools that best fit the organisation's needs and long-term goals based on the defined architecture.
• Document systems architecture, including diagrams, design principles, patterns, and rationale behind architectural decisions.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions to non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
• Support the product team in documenting processes, workflows, project requirements.
• Support product manager in solution scoping, design and roadmapping Provide assistance to the product manager in conducting user testing. Work with the product manager to carry out onboarding training. Support user feedback process.
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Additional
• Familiarity with ERP integrations and working with ERP systems is crucial to ensure smooth data flow
• Carry out database design by defining how data is stored, organised, and accessed within databases, considering factors like data volume, performance, and scalability against the product roadmap.
• Supporting in the technical aspect of our solution architecture strategy
• Work with the product team to support the creation of a comprehensive systems architecture strategy that aligns with the organisation's overall goals and technology roadmap.
• Provide a detailed overview of recommended architecture for our digital platform, including how different code, SaaS, lowcode modules, and varying databases, integrate and interact with each other.
• Recommend the appropriate technologies, frameworks, databases, and tools that best fit the organisation's needs and long-term goals based on the defined architecture.
• Document systems architecture, including diagrams, design principles, patterns, and rationale behind architectural decisions.
• Effectively communicate complex technical concepts and architectural decisions to non-technical stakeholders, including senior management.
• Support the product team in documenting processes, workflows, project requirements.
• Support product manager in solution scoping, design and roadmapping Provide assistance to the product manager in conducting user testing. Work with the product manager to carry out onboarding training. Support user feedback process.

Required Skills and Experience
Education & Experience
Required
• Proficient in back-end development. Strong experience in database design, querying, and optimization, especially for relational databases.
Additional
• Familiarity with ERP integrations and working with ERP systems is crucial to ensure smooth data flow

Technical skills
• API Development and Integration: Familiarity with developing and integrating REST APIs is essential.
• A strong understanding of Excel/ Google Sheets, and a working knowledge of database systems
• Process mapping and project management experience
• Communication and Collaboration: Strong communication skills are essential for coordinating with team members, stakeholders, and users to understand requirements and implement features effectively.
• High competence in back end development
• Experience in solutions architecture
• Strong knowledge of languages including JS, PHP, SQL.
• Experience in MySQL
• Experience in Node.js or Laravel
• and communication between different systems.
• Experience with Inventory Management Systems, ERPs, and CRM platforms.


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

To apply, please carry out the initial 20 minutes application quiz. If you are successful, we will ask you to proceed to the next stage where we will request a CV and some more information about your experience. The quiz is linked here => https://shorturl.at/izBGT 


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