Vacancy title:
Android Engineer

Jobs at:
PULA

Deadline of this Job:
16th December 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 1st November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Competitive, dependent on level in team hierarchy. Transparent developer pay scale will be shared as part of offer
Pula is growing our dev team, and are looking for engineers with strong experience working as part of agile dev teams.

Our core stack is a Django app running on AWS, with an Android app (written in native Java) that serves at the main user interface for our services. At peak times, our stack is handling thousands of insurance registrations every day across multiple geographies. Our 2019 roadmap includes expanding the feature-set and covering more geographies, and engineering excellence lies at the core of this plan.

Our current tooling includes Slack, Jira, Gitlab & Gitlab CI, Ansible, Crashlytics, Bugfender, Sentry and others, but we’re always evolving our processes and welcome strong opinions on how to do things better.

Qualifications

•  Strong Java development skills, and deep familiarity with Android SDK
  
•  Passionate about building excellent code and processes, and eagerness to learn new skills
  
•  Experience: We’re hiring for upper-mid or senior level, so while there is no strict requirement for a certain number of years’ experience, we’re looking candidates who have worked in industry already and are ready to take it to the next level
  
•  Experience with most/all of our core libs: RxJava, Retrofit, Android ViewModel and LiveData, Dagger, RxJava, Room,
  
•  Familiarity with Agile development processes
  
•  AWS and DevOps familiarity is a strong bonus
  

What we offer

•  The opportunity to contribute to improving livelihood of smallholder farmers across Africa
  
•  Transparent payscale & progression path for all tech team staff
  
•  Occasional field visits in various countries
  
•  Daily in-office snacks, lunch & learn sessions, remote working option