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

JOB DETAILS:
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. You will work as part of a small, collaborative, and agile team of mobile developers, and will report to our Senior Engineering Manager.
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 inexpensive 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
• You will design, document, test, and support our mobile solutions
• You will participate in your Agile team’s lifecycle
• You will contribute to your department’s improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting different ways of working and developing
• You will 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
• 3 years of experience in Android using Kotlin
• Conversance with Android App Architecture,, including View Models and Dependency Injection with HILT
• Experience in Jetpack Compose , Jetpack Room, Jetpack Data Store and other Jetpack /Android X Libraries is a plus
• A mindset of testing and automation
• Experience working in Agile
• A passion for solving problems and a customer mindset

Preferred Start Date
As soon as possible
Job Location
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Nigeria, Malawi, Zambia
Benefits
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits
Eligibility
One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
• Application Deadline
05 March 2024.
• One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ( globalhotline@oneacrefund.org ), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace
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