Software Engineer, eLimu

Company Description

eLIMU -a leading digital education content provider in East Africa, based in Kenya. The organisation is focused on creating interactive and engaging, contextually relevant Digital Learning resources to improve learning outcomes for students across Africa. This role is responsible for coordinating the activities focused on creating innovative digital learning resources that leverage proven pedagogies and cutting-edge technology, aligned with our unique context in Africa to transform education on the continent.  

Job Description

We are looking for a result driven Software Engineer to join our Team. Together with your team you will be crafting code that brings to life education software features. This scale comes along with very interesting engineering challenges which we are solving together, using a technology-agnostic approach.

Here’s what you will be doing

  •  Build an amazing experience for our users who engage every day.
  • Design, implement, test and maintain our existing products.
  • Write clean, sustainable code and participate in peer code-reviews.
  • You will work in close collaboration with your fellow engineers in the team.
  • Brainstorm new ideas together with your team to continually iterate and improve user experience of our games.

What you’ll learn in this role

  • Developing, releasing and maintaining high quality code.
  • Strong engineering skills and programming fundamentals.
  • Good command of various programming languages (such as C#, JavaScript). and experience on best practices and idioms of these languages.
  • Software architecture design, OOP and design patterns principles on various scales.
  • A good understanding of Unity 3D or Construct 2 / 3.

Qualifications

Desired skills and experiences

  • University degree in Computer Science or any equivalent department
  • A good knowledge of Unity 3D and or Construct 2 or 3.
  • An engineer who values a holistic and technology-agnostic approach to software development

Additional Information

Benefits

  • A competitive salary, based on experience. 
  • Medical Insurance 
  • Work alongside world-class talent 
  • A culture of learning and innovation
  • Opportunities for career growth and training 
  • Interaction with industry leaders and forward-thinking people
  • A chance to make a social difference
  • ​Overall fun company
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