Full-Stack Software Engineer Associate


Company: One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund is an agricultural NGO that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. In more than five years in Rwanda, We have grown to serve more than  180,000 farm families with 1,500 full-time staff in Rwanda. In Burundi, We have grown to serve 40,000 farm families with over 400 full-time staff. Organization wide, we are on track to serve one million farmers across 10 countries by 2020. We only serve farmers, and we always put Farmers First.

Website: http://www.oneacrefund.org

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. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

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 truckloads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments, analyzing loan repayments…

Our technologies include C#, NodeJS, CouchBase, Angular, Docker, MS SQL, and our tooling landscape includes GitHub, JIRA, Azure DevOps…

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Design, develop, document and operate new and existing technology solutions according to our standards
  • Ensure the smooth progress of your projects
  • Participate in your Agile team’s lifecycle
  • Mentor junior team members
  • Contribute to your department’s improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting different ways of working and developing

WHAT YOU NEED

  • Software Engineer Associate: You have 3+ years of experience, solid programming skills, autonomy, and a knowledge of automated testing frameworks and database concepts. You will work as part of a small, collaborative, agile team of software developers…

In any case, you need to have:

  • High proficiency in at least
  • One major web or mobile front-end technology: Angular, React, Vue.js
  • One major back-end language: .Net C#, Java, Go, NodeJS
  • One database engine: SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Couchbase
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration a plus
  • Experience working in Agile
  • Experience living in a developing country is desired, but not a requirement
  • Willingness to commit to the position for at least two years
  • Language: English required, French is a plus

LOCATION

Kigali, Rwanda

PERKS

  • Health insurance, housing and other comprehensive benefits including professional development and personal travel allowances
  • 6 weeks leaves
  • Flexible work from home policy
  • Flexible Bring-Your-Own-Device policy with laptop allowance
  • Free-lunch Fridays and regular happy hour nights
  • A chance to live in one of the most beautiful, safe, and clean places in Africa!
  • A rare opportunity to make an impact in the world by working with a top-ranked non-profit!

SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATES

Yes; Rwandans are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Note: Please submit a Resume/CV, not exceeding more than 1-2 pages, which includes, Education, Work Experience, Specialized/Technical Skills, Achievements/Awards and any other Experience (Volunteering, Extracurriculars, etc). References do not need to be included, and will only be required upon request, after the final interview.

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.

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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