Senior Software Engineer – Back End At Kyosk

Job Description

Senior Software Engineer – Back End At Kyosk

Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya | Tech | Full-time

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Department: Product & Technology

Position: Senior Software Engineer – Back End

Location: Africa (Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria)

Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a leading role in the full SDLC of the team’s output.  

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a strong technologist, innovator and an analytical problem solver. You will need to develop high quality, resilient, scalable software.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in the design and development of  software solutions
• Triage, investigate and resolve errors
• Adhere to, promote and help to improve Kyosk’s development processes
• Code reviews
• Mentor less experienced software engineers
• Experiment with new technologies/solutions and develop a PoC

Minimum Technical Requirements:

• 6 years of software development experience
• 2 years experience of the full SDLC (analysis, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, documentation, triage)
• Experience working with Agile methodologies
• Proficiency with administrative tools, e.g. Issue Tracking, Wikis, etc
• Advanced level user of dev tool chain (e.g. IDE, CI/CD, version control)
• Backend dev: Advanced knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate.
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration
• Experience implementing the microservices design pattern
• Working knowledge of any cloud platform
• Experience designing and implementing a system from scratch
• Experience implementing complex automated tests (unit, integration, performance, etc)
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of system non-functional requirements (e.g. code readability, maintainability, scalability, extensibility, testability, etc), and can weigh the pros and cons of a solution w.r.t. non-functional requirements.

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

• Strong work ethic
• Focus on delivery
• Punctual
• Works independently
• Expectation management
• Passion for learning
• Ability to lead a discussion with clients in a professional manner
• Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates
• Proactively accommodates value chain outside of sphere of responsibility
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly and concisely
• Can take the lead on small projects

Desired Technical Competencies

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 3+ year of experience of the full SDLC
• Working knowledge of Kafka
• Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products
• Experience using GCP
• Working knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes for orchestration
• Practitioner of the shift-left approach
• Experience introducing automated tests into a code base
• Experience architecting, designing and implementing a software system

Desired Behavioral Competencies

• Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development
• Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines
• You have integrity: You do what you say you will do and make no excuses.
• Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organisation.

About the Company:

At Kyosk.App we take immense pride in our role as a Business to Business Technology Platform. We are dedicated to bridging the gap in digital distribution to middle and low-income communities, including smallholder farmers. Our platform is truly product and service agnostic, empowering companies to connect with these communities through local retail outlets.

Today, we are thrilled to share that we serve a thriving community of over 250,000 Retailers on our Platform. We leverage the small retail outlets as a channel to connect with these communities by providing a seamless and direct link between suppliers, traditional retailers as well as farmers and local eateries. Across Africa over 60% of retail trade flows through these small outlets commonly referred to as kiosks. We are on a mission to provide them with an extensive range of high-quality products, all delivered reliably to their doorsteps at fair market prices.

We also help manufacturers and farmers expand their network and product range by providing last mile deliveries to hard-to reach communities as well as data for better demand and business planning.

The platform does not only support product distribution but also helps service providers such as financial institutions to reach and provide their services (for example credit, savings and insurance) to the communities via our network of small retail outlets – Kiosks. 

Looking forward to you reaching out if you are interested in being considered to be a part of Kyosk.App’s success story. 

Senior Software Engineer – Back End At Kyosk