Zappi is a SaaS company that is aimed at completely transforming the market research industry. Zappi is a platform that integrates world class research methodologies and engineering to allow brands to run consumer testing through all stages of advertising and innovation development. We are constantly innovating and tackling diverse and complex problems using a multitude of technologies in order to scale expertise and create the world’s most powerful enterprise research platform thereby making the world of insights even better.

We have created an environment that fosters constant learning and innovating and we believe in having ambitious goals. We are data scientists, developers, researchers, analysts, designers, engineers, and marketers all driven by the notion of trying to make the impossible possible. To realise our vision we are constantly in search of people who will bring a different perspective, who will challenge our thinking, create value for our customers and apply themselves passionately to our vision and culture.

- passionate about solving complex problems with an array of engineering techniques

- are versatile and think outside the box

- display leadership qualities and are enthusiastic about taking on new problems

- take time to listen deeply before acting

- aren't afraid to address challenging issues directly, with compassion

- lead through inspiration not coercion and create space for others to lead

- are comfortable with radical transparency

- are comfortable being uncomfortable; change is constant at Zappi

- listen carefully to each other and to our customers

- believe anyone can achieve great things; we don’t put people in boxes

- promote experimentation and freedom of expression whether it is with new engineering practices, new technologies or new cultural and working practices

- want to have a positive impact on the planet and our communities

Zappi is an equal opportunities employer; our diversity is a major strength. We maintain a constant dialogue with our teams and wider communities about how we can become a more inclusive place to work.

As a Zappi developer the role is what you make of it. While you will have experts to ask advice from where necessary, and with your team you will have a high degree of influence on design and implementation decisions. You will almost certainly work across different programming languages and technologies, building and sharing knowledge with your colleagues as you progress.

You will be a developer with an active role in an Agile development team participating in PBRs, Sprint Planning and Reviews and Retrospectives. Development teams at Zappi use fairly standardised SCRUM or KANBAN containing the roles Product Owner, Developer and QA roles.

A development team member at Zappi must be able to demonstrate:

- Openness and honesty in terms of technology, estimation and personal capability

- Willingness to ask for or offer help when help is needed proactively

- Desire to work in an environment which is friendly and comfortable for a very diverse group of people

- Ability to communicate via video conference, messaging and face to face. Development teams at Zappi are often geographically distributed across multiple Zappi offices

- Ability to self-manage in an organisation with a high degree of autonomy

- Willingness to share knowledge in order to allow the team to grow as a whole or Zappi as a whole

- Understanding of the importance of good administration and proper uses of team tools like GitHub, Jira and CI tools

You will be working with a modern, diverse and evolving technology stack, you should be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience relevant to:

- Ruby on Rails REST and GraphQL APIs and other languages

- Kubernetes on AWS along with many other AWS Services

Zappi developers operate in a busy, fast moving environment while continuously striving for improvements in quality. Engineering skills which are important to a Zappi developer are:

- Writing well designed, efficient and fully tested code which is easy to maintain. TDD is preferred

- Architectural understanding of multi-service, multi-tier distributed applications

- Debugging and diagnostic skills using data from multiple sources

- Designing and working with SQL databases in production environments

- Strong desire to learn about new platform features, technology and programming languages

- Ability to consider multiple solutions and communicate the risks and advantages of each way.

Your prospective team will be able to share the details around the content of what they work on

If you believe in quality, maintainability, testing, design/architecture, you might be the right developer for us

Software Developer

We are GEERD to build innovative learning and collaborative tools that are dedicated to give experts new ways to teach and share excellence, build a and empower a culture of research and enhance student success through providing universities in the effective application and implementation of instructional technologies.

At GEERD, we want to help our clients in their digital transition by developing software that is tailored to their need.

As a frontend developer intern, you will contribute to improving the user experience of the admin frontends of both our elearning and online assessments platforms.

The admin frontends consist of multiple forms that allow content creators such as teachers to load courses, exams and more. It also serves the admin user to read insights through dashboards and KPIs.

Feel free to share with us your portfolio or exciting projects you worked on previously.

Paid Internship: Frontend Developer

In founding SweepSouth, our aim was to modernise home services and to be the African pioneers in bringing technology to the industry. With over seven thousand cleaners, and thousands of satisfied customers being served monthly, we're just getting started. Our mission is to create happy homes by providing dignified, flexible work at decent pay to our SweepStars.

SweepSouth is the largest online marketplace on the African continent for ordering and paying for home cleaning services. We connect people with experienced, reliable, efficient and insured cleaners in minutes.

Elixir - Postgres - GraphQL - Android / iOS

We're building Africa's largest marketplace for home services, but we need your help: we're rapidly expanding, but on a new software architecture, built around Postgres (with PostGIS), Elixir &amp; GraphQL.

Join us in building out the tech stack from the ground up, using the best new tools &amp; a developer-friendly approach. Your software will serve users in multiple countries &amp; languages, and make it easier for them to find work / provide jobs relating to cleaning, child care, cooking, gardening etc.

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Ninety One is an independent, active global asset manager dedicated to delivering compelling outcomes for its clients.

Established in South Africa in 1991, as Investec Asset Management, the firm started offering domestic investments in an emerging market. In 2020, almost three decades of organic growth later, the firm demerged from Investec Group and became Ninety One. Today the firm offers distinctive active strategies across equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives to institutions, advisors and individual investors around the world.

Investments involve risk. Content shared on this page is for professional investors only.

We started in South Africa, in ’91. Back then, change was coming. Along with its challenges came the chance to invest in a better future. Our journey through that time taught us to recognise and embrace change and uncertainty. Change taught us to be bold. Resilient. Agile.

To believe that active investing can be a force for good.

Today, we manage R2.3 trillion for our clients globally. We still see the world from a different perspective. Whether it is the rise of the East or the rise of the machines, we’ll always seek to make the best of it. Best for our clients, best for our company, and the best for the world we live in. We are investing for a world of change.

We began as Investec Asset Management, a small start-up based in South Africa offering domestic investment strategies. In 2020, almost three decades of growth later, we de-merged from Investec Group to become Ninety One, an independent asset manager listed on the London and Johannesburg Stock Exchanges.

While our name may have changed, we’re still the same firm. We offer distinctive investment strategies spanning equities, fixed income, multi-asset, alternatives and sustainability to help institutional investors, those advising others and individuals navigate an ever-changing world. All of our employees have the opportunity to own part of the firm. We also have our founding leadership in place. Our distinctive owner culture allows us to commit to building a long-term, inter-generational business. It supports a business fully aligned with our clients’ long-term investment objectives. *as at 31 March 2020

Ninety One is an equal opportunities employer. Our imperative is to attract and retain the best talent by providing a corporate environment where people from varying backgrounds can develop professionally and build a rewarding career.

Ninety One Information Technology are recruiting Software Engineers to deliver product enhancements directly to the business within Research, Trade Management, Client Technology and Data Technology. The roles will best suit full-stack Software Engineers who may have experience across different industries; although previous Financial Services or Asset Management will be an advantage.

Ninety One Information Technology is responsible for the delivery of systems and applications to enable the business to perform the full life cycle of an investment from Portfolio Management, Trading, Risk, Performance, Research and Client Reporting all enabled via our core Data-as-a-Service strategy and dynamic Infrastructure.

We make the decision to develop in-house where it adds most value to the business, but also blend that with vendor products where there is already a market leading product available. There is a preference for the candidate to have a range of data related skills from design through to data surfacing techniques.

Software Engineer

Andela is an American company with operational campuses in Africa, including Nigeria, Ghana & Kenya that identifies and develops software developers. 
The company launched operations in Nigeria in 2014, to help global companies overcome the severe shortage of skilled software developers and has offices in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and the United States.

Andela’s mission is to advance human potential by powering today’s teams and investing in tomorrow’s leaders.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz wrote:&nbsp;“software is eating the world.” That statement is just as true today as it was eight years ago.&nbsp; Software is embedded in our day-to-day, and few industries are immune.&nbsp; Peek behind the code and you will find brilliant engineers pushing the boundaries of what is possible.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Talk to any engineering leader and they will tell you that access to talent is their number one barrier to building software and growing their business. Research the industry and you read about the 1 million computer-programming jobs that will go unfilled in 2020.&nbsp;

That is where Andela comes in. We help engineering leaders at companies big and small bridge that gap. We are building tools, systems and processes to connect talent, no matter where they live, with the opportunities to do great things. To date, we have cultivated 1,000+ software engineers from Emerging Markets and placed them as full-time, embedded members of development teams at over 200+ tech companies. Along the way, we have raised $180M from Al Gore’s venture fund, Generation Partners, Google Ventures, Spark Capital, the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and Serena Ventures.&nbsp;

All of our people live and breathe our E.P.I.C values:

In this role, you will work as a Senior Backend Engineer within the Technology organization, building world-class internal and customer facing products to support Andela’s business needs.

Our Andelan Senior Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value and build products that are key to helping Andela grow and scale as an organization.

Specifically, you’ll:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

A&nbsp;minimum of 5 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and&nbsp;exercised ownership&nbsp;on various technical teams.

Expertise&nbsp;with&nbsp;the following specific tools:

We are building advanced applications using modern tools and technologies. Our platform is Node based.&nbsp; On the backend we have a multi-tier architecture, utilizing PostgreSQL, NestJs, GraphQL, and Typescript. On the frontend we use Angular 10. The platform is deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using a modern CI/CD pipeline (Docker, Kubernetes, CircleCI, CodeClimate).&nbsp;

Senior Backend Engineer

From founding in 2013, the Silvertree portfolio has grown to include 12 companies employing 400 people across 13 locations in 3 cities

Silvertree follows an owner-operator approach and puts its own capital at risk by investing from its balance sheet, and has generated returns of 13x to shareholders in 4 years

We support entrepreneurs by providing them with long-term capital and a dedicated operational platform of 20-plus staff, which has supported annual revenue growth of >100% CAGR over multiple years across the portfolio

Silvertree is an entrepreneur-led investment growth partner scaling consumer and digital brands in Africa. We are a holding and operating company, based in South Africa, that conceives, launches, operates and invests in early- and mid-stage tech and consumer companies targeting the South African and Sub-Saharan African markets.

Silvertree offers various career possibilities within Silvertree and its investment portfolio. In line with our hands-on mentality we trust our employees with full accountability and autonomy from day one. This unique entrepreneurial and performance driven culture enables us to achieve executional excellence.

Silvertree is seeking a highly skilled and passionate React.js front-end developer to join our dynamic tech team, with focus on the buildout of a headless progressive web app mobile-first ecommerce platform, using React.js on the frontend (app, mobile web, desktop) and Magento 2+GraphQL on the backend.

This role is ideal for a skilled developer looking to build amazing customer experiences, in a small team that is deeply involved in the success of our brands. You will have far more interaction and impact on company success than you would in an agency or large corporate setup.

Advantageous: UX design experience, Ecommerce dev experience (especially Magento), TypeScript, GraphQL (Apollo), Styled Components, Prototype, JQuery

Senior Front-End React - Javascript Ecommerce Developer

<a href="https://sweepsouth.com/">SweepSouth</a>&nbsp;is the largest online marketplace on the African continent for ordering and paying for home cleaning services. We connect people with experienced, reliable, efficient and insured cleaners in minutes.

SweepSouth is in search of a new full-time team member to join our technical team of engineers. This position will be available immediately. The successful candidate will need to be based in Cape Town.

We currently operate in major areas of South Africa, including Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Centurion and Pretoria; and we are rapidly expanding into new areas.

We're looking for a talented Front End Engineer to join our growing SweepSouth engineering team to work on the core components of the SweepSouth platform. You'll be primarily tasked with helping us rapidly scale our products.

Senior Front End Engineer

Access Afya is a social enterprise that is running high-quality, affordable primary healthcare in Nairobi's informal settlements. The anchor of our model is a chain of quality assured, low-cost micro-clinics. These site operate in slums, are run by a local care team, and are stocked and ready to work with a wide range of primary care needs, from diagnosing and treating infectious disease to family planning to first aid, and more.

We also run a virtual clinic that provides comprehensive health access online. Our physical and digital health models are all supported by great software and analytics.

Access Afya is a social enterprise based in Nairobi that delivers primary healthcare to the poorest communities living in informal settlements. We take a chain of low-cost micro-clinics as anchors to our model, with a mobile field health team that reaches people in the places where they already spend their time – such as schools and factories.

Access Afya is growing and we are looking to bring on board the best and brightest people to join our team. Our team is bound together by a common, compelling purpose to redefine how people everywhere can access healthcare, and living our shared values of self-drive, integrity, resilience, reliability and empathy.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to come in and work directly with the Head of Product, internal teams and external partners to help us build a futuristic health tech platform currently focused on delivering quality care to underserved urban communities. The platform engineer will be working very closely with our data platform engineer and product engineers to deliver on the needs of various products. An ideal candidate will have experience building services in the back end using JavaScript based tech stacks. Responsibilities

● Collaboratively design available, reliable and scalable platform services that will be serving various product needs.

● Implement features using various stacks for different platform services mostly JavaScript based

● Setup CI/CD for various platform services

● Monitor platform services to make sure they are always available

● Collaborate with product engineers to make sure platform services meet product needs

● Participate in weekly brainstorming sessions focused on improving business services, product and engineering

● B.Sc. Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, or related experience in Software

● Experience writing JavaScript/ Scala and Python

● Experience working with SQL Databases and Document Databases e.g. MongoDB

● Experience build API in REST or GraphQL (preferred)

● Growth mindset. See challenges as learning opportunities and have a can-do attitude

Required relevant work experience: 2 years

Required languages: English (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent)

Platform Engineer

We are looking for a product engineer Engineer to come in and work directly with the Head of Product, internal teams and external partners to help us build a futuristic health tech platform currently focused on delivering quality care to underserved urban communities. The product engineer will be working very closely with our platform and other product engineers to deliver on the needs of various products. An ideal candidate will be proficient in both JavaScript and TypeScript, have experience working with React JS and using GraphQL on the client side as well as proficiency with common tooling used in client-side development. Responsibilities

● Collaborate with product designer and platform engineers in translating product designs into functional and usable product features. ● Write readable and testable code inline with company-wide coding style configured in linters.

● Write automated tests for all code written with good coverage percentage. Improve coverage over time for code with less coverage

● Ensure new features are continuously shipped. Automate this over time with appropriate CI/ CD tooling.

● Monitor deployed product for errors and act appropriately to make sure all deployed features are not crashing in production. Fix errors in production as soon as they are identified.

● Collaborate with platform engineers to make sure platform services meet product needs.

● Participate in weekly brainstorming sessions focused on improving business services, product and engineering.

● B.Sc. Computer Science, Mathematics or Statistics, or related experience in Software Engineering

● Experience writing JavaScript and TypeScript

● Experience working with GraphQL and RESTful APIs

● Experience building applications in React using custom tooling for SPAs or related SSR frameworks.

● Experience using application state management tools (redux preferred) or alternative but performant approaches.

● Experience building Progressive Web Apps in React and implementation of related caching strategies as needed for various features of the app.

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