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Senior Full Stack Engineer (OkHi)

Nairobi, KENYA Engineering Full-Time
FullstackNoSQLNodeJSJavaScriptCloudResponsiveReactTypeScriptKubernetesElastic

OkHi is a smart addressing system, enabling 4 billion people to “be included”.We’re solving a problem affecting half of the world and costing businesses $200bn a year.Backed by Google and Facebook, we’re a team with Silicon Valley expertise, strong values and a pioneering culture. We’ve raised $1.8M to bring in talent that can power us to Series A and ultimately, our Mission.We need you! OkHi is solving a global problem and we’re growing fast. This creates an exciting and fulfilling opportunity for a Senior Full Stack Web Engineer to join our web development team and build products that our users truly love.

You are…

  • Experienced with modern web development, testing, debugging, and automation techniques. You are proficient in some of the following: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, AngularJS.
  • Experienced with backend development, and comfortable jumping into our Node JS servers
  • Proficient with NoSQL databases such as mongoDB
  • Quality-minded and are interested in all parts of software development: coding, testing, deployment, monitoring.
  • Working experience building mobile first responsive web applications
  • Experience with any of the following areas: GCP, Kubernetes, the Elastic stack is a bonus

You will...

  • Develop and maintain highly reliable, performant and scalable UIs, libraries and APIs
  • Take part in every stage of development from concept to deployment
  • Proactively participate in and improve our product development processes
  • Write tests to ensure code works as expected
  • Define and run QA for products that you build
  • Participate in code reviews and peer programming sessions

We are...Purpose driven and passionate about having a big impact on the world, enabling people to “be included”An international company attempting to create the best company to work for in AfricaAn open and inclusive working environment with a culture that encourages innovation, experimentation, willingness to fail and collaborationGuided by our five core values which support us in our daily decisions across all aspects of the businessBe bold - make audacious decisionsBe open - build trust by being vulnerableGo lean - increase the speed of learningGrow together - with open feedback and collaborationEnjoy your journey - life is a marathon, not a sprintMotivated by your growth, working with the team to provide resources and support that will accelerate your professional and personal growthExcited to meet diverse, multi talented and engaged people to help us on our journeyBacked by world class investors including the co-founder of AirBnb Nate Blecharczyk, ex-CFO of Google Patrick Pichette and Google

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