Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, September 16, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About the company...
Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the lifeblood of many cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and disorganized. At the click of a button, the company provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first transportation platform for Africa’s booming young population. On the high-frequency use of their transportation service, the company is providing value to consumers, our drivers, and passengers, with additional financial services, payments, and other on-demand services such as food and grocery delivery to keep Africa moving forward.
Based in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria, they are a venture-funded Series B company that is already having a huge impact on millions of people in Africa. They have a passionate and highly engaged team based in East and West Africa and are looking to quickly grow it to speed-up the organization’s growth and make sure they can revolutionize transportation, on-demand services and payments in Africa’s cities.
They are always trying to work with the latest technology are obsessed with the user experience. They follow agile methodologies in a team split into 3 main products: Mobile Apps for drivers, passengers, and partners (merchants, agents & vendors), and a Company Admin Portal.
Candidates based in Uganda/Kenya/Nigeria are encouraged to applied. Location is flexible.

About the role...
They are looking for an experienced Android Developer to keep building and maintain one of the best apps in the East African market. The goal is to assure the high quality of our operations and services aiming to the long-term success of our business.The ideal candidate will work hand in hand with our Tech Leads (backend and Mobile) and Product Managers.
They always try to work with the latest technology, following agile methodologies and with Kotlin, Swift, Vue.JS and Elixir as our tech stack, while keeping an eye on the user experience and the value provided to our customers.

Desired Technical Skills:
• Strong experience in Android and working with Kotlin
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Working knowledge of mobile architectures like MVVM and Clean Architecture
• Experience working in a Continuous Delivery environment
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Demonstrated experience producing structured, readable and testable code
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Care about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code
• Ability in identifying, debugging and resolving complex production issues
• Jira and Agile methodologies (like Scrum and Kanban)
• Familiarity with SOLID principles and Clean Code

Desired Personal Skills
• Critical thought, analytical thinking and good communication skills
• Capacity to work with members of the team working in different countries
• Good organizational and time management abilities
• Great attention to detail and a results driven approach
• Willing to go above and beyond; we would like someone who wants everything under control and wants to try all the different possibilities that can happen
• An attitude of accountability and knowledge-sharing. You enjoy reviewing others' code and sharing your knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Empathy, respect and a big sense of humor; we are people before engineers
• English communication skills

Perks
• Remote working
• A passionate, inspirational and aspirational team→ Teamwork is in our core values
• Grow yourself, learning is a habit. We empower people and we want you to grow with us. Tell us the areas you wish to improve in and if it makes sense for the business, we'll do what we can to help you do just that
• Flexible work hours - Pretty flexible when it comes to managing workload and time. It's about delivery!
• Be part of a passionate team that is changing the mobility landscape in Africa and it's improving millions of lives
• Opportunity to travel to East Africa and interact with the product and our multi-cultural team

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Associate Degree

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Interested and qualified? Use the link below to apply.
https://jobs.lever.co/braveventurelabs/3ad13f5b-88ae-4aae-ae31-03c3157d5465

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