Proximity Indian Ocean is a solution-oriented partner delivering exceptional technology and digital production services. Proximity Indian Ocean is a member of the Omnicom group of companies - the world’s largest marketing services organisation.

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Mastery of office productivity tools such as Excel, Word, MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint &amp; Smartsheet.

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Think-it is an engineering collective on a mission to unlock human potential through sustainable use of technology. Our high-tech, low-carbon solutions help innovative teams around the world lower costs, democratize data, and reach net-zero faster.

With a focus on digital transformation, smart infrastructure, and the UN SDGs, we tackle meaningful problems that can only be solved with future-proof technology. Our team includes experts in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and DevOps & Cloud.

Founded in 2017, Think-it is home to a high-performing and diverse team of changemakers in Germany, Tunisia, and around the world — including 8+ nationalities and 40% women. We are enthusiastically committed to inclusivity and ethical technology in our collective, partner teams, and mission-aligned investor networks.

Think-it is a software engineering collective on a mission to unlock human potential through sustainable use of technology. Our high-performance, low-carbon solutions help innovative teams around the world lower costs, democratize data, and reach net-zero faster.

With a focus on digital transformation, smart infrastructure, and the UN SDGs, we tackle meaningful problems that can only be solved with future-proof technology. Our team includes experts in Full Stack Engineering, Machine Learning, and DevOps and Cloud.

Founded in 2017, Think-it is home to a diverse community of changemakers — we represent 8+ nationalities, and 40% of us are women. We’re proud to be backed by mission-aligned partners, and our goals are people- and planet-centric.

We believe that technology leaders are defined by their ability to solve today’s biggest product challenges, while also modeling and transferring the best practices of their craft to any team member — from entry level developers to senior software engineers.&nbsp;

We’re looking for a confident and people-centric Lead Software Engineer with experience in people management to join our team. Your challenge: lead our key partner accounts with your own team, and mentor the next generation of engineers at Think-it in your area of technical expertise.

20%: Up to you!&nbsp;What are you passionate about? What do you want to learn, and where else would you like to contribute?

Think-it is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, veteran status, disability, history of disability or perceived disability. QUICK TIP: Make sure to send us your CV in ENGLISH. No need for a cover letter 🙂

Software Engineering Lead - Technical Project Manager

Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. 

It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.

Amazon Development Centre South Africa is seeking a very strong technical leader to manage and grow an engineering team. This requires a thorough knowledge of what it takes to develop scalable, extensible technology, as well as how to structure and develop organizations. This presents a significant intellectual, technical and operational challenge. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the web service that is pioneering cloud computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any developer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We are continuing to build the team in order to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale. We are expanding our capacity management initiatives to support high growth at large scales and create novel markets to support the computing needs of our customers. We are a diverse team which is is dedicated to supporting new members. We’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy mentoring more junior members. This includes both helping to onboard new hires, and supporting continued career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks that will help each team member to develop their skills, allowing them to take on more complex tasks as they progress. The ideal candidate will be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services in general. This person has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality solutions in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast. The position demands excellent technical skills and knowledge coupled with strong leadership, planning, and management abilities. Knowledge and experience with one or more development methodologies, and experience developing engineering process is required. Key responsibilities: · Translation of complex functional and technical requirements into detailed project plans and schedules; manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team by defining, implementing and maintaining a coherent, progressive development strategy for our product line. · Responsible for the over-all systems development life cycle · Delivery of quality applications on-time and on-budget · Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments · Management of departmental resources, staffing, and enhancing and maintaining a best- of-class engineering team · Evolution of the software engineering practice within the organization, including better reporting, tools, and evolution of development methodology · Work closely with the architects to develop the best technical design and approach for product development · Maintain current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology · Continue to build an effective development organization by driving the recruiting and hiring of senior level engineers, developing and managing the group, and conducting performance reviews of team members · Create and execute appropriate quality plans, project plans, test strategies and processes for development activities in concert with business and project management efforts. · Develop and execute unit testing strategy and processes. · Drive and manage the bug triage process, represent development team in project meetings to ensure efficient testing and bug fixing process, and be an effective advocate for the development group · Report on status of product quality to management, customer support and product teams via rigorous execution of detailed plans and accurate reporting of test cases executed, bugs discovered, bugs fixed, etc.

· 5-10 years experience in Software development and 2-5 years as Development Manager · BS in Computer Science or equivalent · Experience with a programming language such as Java, C# or C/C++ · Excellent verbal and written communication skills · Strong analytical skills with excellent problem solving abilities. · Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment · Able to work in a diverse team

· Knowledge of MySQL. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer, and we value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief. Amazon is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. Amazon requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

Software Development Manager

RapidDeploy is the industry’s only truly open and integrated emergency response platform, transforming 9-1-1 communications centers of any size into data-centric organizations. RapidDeploy achieves new levels of situational awareness and reduces 9-1-1 response time by seamlessly integrating third-party data ensuring it is available when, where and how Telecommunicators and First Responders need it. Our company’s web-based cloud platform includes analytics, mapping, dispatch and first responder applications.

With more than 325 years of collective experience in public safety and as first responders, RapidDeploy understands what Agencies, Telecommunicators and First Responders face every day. We know from first-hand experience how data benefits 9-1-1.

Are you craving the challenge of building complex systems? Really smart systems where performance and speed are essential without sacrificing the working environment?If this appeals to you, join a purpose-driven, fast-growing enterprise software company that is working to transform Public Safety.The power to do remarkable things when it matters most is the heart of public safety. At RapidDeploy, we believe that regardless of size, geography or budget, everyone in public safety should have access to the data they need when it matters most to save more lives. That’s why, since 2016, our mission has been to reduce emergency response times and improve public safety. We are the industry’s only truly open and integrated emergency response platform with a portfolio of web-based cloud solutions that includes analytics, mapping, dispatch and first responder applications.

About RapidDeploy Inc.• Fast-growing, passionate, mission-driven team – we care about saving lives through technology!• We are people-centric and ensure an environment where employees are encouraged to grow and learn every day• Offices in Austin, TX and Cape Town, South Africa  Note: RapidDeploy’s hiring policy prohibits hiring from existing or prospective customers.If you don’t receive feedback from us within two (2) weeks of receiving your CV, please consider your application unsuccessful. RapidDeploy, Inc. and its affiliates understand that your privacy is important to you. When you apply for a position with RapidDeploy, we collect and process personal data for recruitment and other related Human Resources purposes. Review our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rapiddeploy.com/RD-HR-Privacy-Policy">HR Privacy Policy</a>&nbsp;to learn&nbsp;how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in connection with our recruiting and HR efforts

Engineering Manager

At Careem, we are driven by the purpose of simplifying the lives of people and building an awesome organisation that inspires. Based in Dubai, we started our journey as a pioneer of the Middle East’s ride-hailing economy. Today, Careem is the region’s everyday Super App operational in 13 countries and over 100 cities. The Super App provides a host of daily services that people need to move around, to order things and to transfer money in one unified smartphone app. Our goal is to simplify people’s daily lives so that they can spend their precious time and mindshare on things that really matter and on realizing their potential. 

Careem is powered by awesome people. Our people are purpose-aligned and values-oriented. They are excited by the purpose of simplifying lives and building a lasting institution in the region, and live by our core values of shooting for the moon, being of service, and acting like owners. We thrive on diversity, and welcome people of all backgrounds who can subscribe to our purpose can live by our values, and have what it takes to build an institution that will inspire and last for decades and centuries to come. 

In January 2020, Careem became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. www.careem.com

Careem is the internet platform for the greater Middle East region. A pioneer of the region's ride-hailing economy, Careem is expanding services across its platform to become the region's everyday Super App. Careem's mission is to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Established in July 2012, Careem operates in over 100 cities across 13 countries and has created more than one million employment opportunities in the region. Careem became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc. in January 2020. About The Role We are looking for engineering manager who will work within the SRE team to focus on enabling Kubernetes and taking cloud-native technology to the next level within Careem. We need expert, execution-focused engineers to help shape the future of the Careem platform and to help us scale our already sizable effort greatly. As a Senior Engineering Manager in Careem, you'll architect, build and maintain Kubernetes clusters and its corresponding ecosystem required to ensure resilience, reliability of our services and speed up deployments with the aim of improving our products used by millions of customers every day. Key responsibilities include:

What do we offer you? Working in an international environment with colleagues from 70+ nationalities, ownership culture, flexible working hours, unlimited (paid!) holidays and the latest technologies. Careem gives equal opportunities. All aspects of ownership including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for everyone.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Pangaea is on a mission to connect consumers around the world with brands they love. We believe that what you buy is an expression of who you are. By empowering brands to reach a global scale, we’re building a smaller, more expressive world. 

We collect and analyze consumer purchase and behavioral data to create premium, international-first brands for the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. Our brands are built on a proprietary internationalization platform with competencies across warehousing/logistics, globally distributed performance creative, compliance and payments. 

Since our launch in 2018, we’ve sold our products in 60 different countries. We have grown to over 100 employees and contractors across several locations in the world. Backed by Google’s AI Gradient Ventures, we’re a rapidly growing startup poised to become a leader in the Direct to Consumer industry.

CloudFactory provides a tech-forward, professionally managed workforce solution with all the benefits of a trained internal team. Our teams are agile, scale fast, and process data with high accuracy on virtually any platform specializing in Digitization, Managed Crowd-sourcing, Image Annotation, Image Labeling, Cloud Labor, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Video Labeling, Video Annotation, Outsourcing, Data Processing, Data Labeling, and Workforce Solutions

CloudFactory is on a mission to change how work gets done. We're using technology to make it super easy and affordable for startups and fast-growing companies to automate and outsource routine back-office data work. As a leader in the Impact Sourcing movement, we aim to connect 1 million people to online work, while raising them up as leaders to address poverty in their own communities. Our workforce is recruited from talent “hot spots” around the globe such as Nepal and Kenya where we can hire the best and brightest in areas where there are thousands of talented people, but limited opportunities for meaningful and sustainable employment.

CloudFactory a global leader in combining people and technology to provide a cloud workforce solution for machine learning and core business data processing. is scaling up and growing fast, with $78 million in venture capital investment and offices on four continents. We’re looking for talented people to join us on our mission as we earn, learn, and serve our way to becoming leaders worth following.

As we continue to scale we are seeking an experienced Release Manager who will be responsible for defining and driving the Software Release Processes and supporting activities such as Resource Planning &amp; Release Calendar. You will champion the toolset and all associated ways of working.

The successful candidates will work within the Product Operations function, partner with Product, Engineering, Technical Authoring &amp; IT and work in collaboration with key business stakeholders. You will be accountable for the seamless release of software (for production and/or experimentation) with minimal disruption using a pragmatic, flexible set of processes that include clear and concise communication plans. You will identify key risks, dependencies and resources to facilitate current and future planning. You will also be confident enough to manage up and provide reporting, as well as meeting updates to Senior Management at VP and CxO level.

1.&nbsp;Assess and report on the state of CloudFactory’s existing Release Activities.&nbsp;During the first four weeks, work with members of the Product, Engineering and Enterprise IT to understand and report on how the end-to-end Release Processes are being met by the business and received by the customers (internal and external). This report will include a ‘first impressions’ analysis of the areas of concern (if any), identification of gaps, recommendations for improvement - both ways of working and toolset used.

2.&nbsp;Define and deliver the go forward Release Process.&nbsp;CloudFactory embraces multiple methods to deliver great experiences to its Clients, Core and Cloudworkers and as such will need a flexible set of processes to cater for a variety of scenarios, from Hotfixes through to major System Upgrades including tracking and reporting. Within two months of starting, the Release Manager will have proposed a set of solutions (ways of working, toolsets, KPIs, retrospectives) to address our Release Management needs.

3.&nbsp;Define and deliver the go forward Resource Planning toolset and frameworks.&nbsp;As with many organisations, CloudFactory relies on a predictable, forward looking schedule of deliveries that takes into account key resources, manages risks and allows for scenario planning. Within six weeks you will have published and be rolling out the first iteration of our Resource Planning toolkit.

CloudFactory is a global leader in combining people and technology to provide workforce solutions for machine learning and business process optimization. Our professionally managed and trained teams work with high accuracy using virtually any tool. We process millions of tasks a day for innovators including Microsoft, GoSpotCheck, Hummingbird Technologies, Ibotta and Luminar. We exist to create meaningful work for one million talented people in developing nations, so we can earn, learn, and serve our way to become leaders worth following.

Join us, and change the world for the better. If you are skilled and humble, with a commitment to lifelong learning, and you’re curious about the world and its people, you could be a good fit at CloudFactory. We welcome the unique contributions you can bring to help us build a diverse, inclusive workplace because we connect, learn, and grow stronger from our differences. We want you to bring your whole, authentic self to work. We look forward to hearing from you!

Still unsure? Read ‘<a href="https://blog.cloudfactory.com/5-reasons-you-should-work-at-cloudfactory" target="_blank">5 Reasons You Should Work at CloudFactory</a>’.

Release Manager

Yoco is an African technology company that builds tools and services to help small businesses get paid, run their business better, and grow. We believe that by opening up more possibilities for entrepreneurs to be successful, we can help create more jobs, enable people to thrive and help to drive our economy forward.

Your business is our business. Your growth is our growth. That’s why we’re for you. 

Our products reach over 100k small businesses across the country, and soon beyond. Yoco is looking for passionate engineering manager with a background in leading technical campaigns to grow and develop our engineering talent and build inclusive, high-performing cross-functional teams.Our engineers work in cross-functional teams arranged around missions, with a strong focus on aligning the right skills with the right problems and the right leaders to support them.Your focus as an engineering manager will be helping engineers with personal and professional development. You will also be helping the teams that our engineers are part of to become high-performing teams. Alongside this, you will be working with key senior engineering talent to drive cross-cutting technical initiatives to improve the state of the practice of engineering at Yoco.ROLE | WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING?Your key responsibilities will be to:

IDEAL CANDIDATE | WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?Key requirements to perform responsibilities:

THE YOCO FORMULA - HOW WE CREATE VALUE&nbsp;The Yoco formula is a validated approach to work and a set of behaviours that create maximum value for our customers and help us grow.Core Values -Our way of working to create value &amp; grow

Leadership Principles -How we show up, engage &amp; treat each other

To support this, we have built a role-based organisation where every individual is given the space to focus and develop their innate strengths.&nbsp;Everyone at Yoco has the opportunity to lead a project and become a specialist, enabling flexibility, collaboration and accountability at all levels. You will be working with a diverse, motivated and skilled team who will continuously stretch you as an individual.&nbsp;To learn more about our culture, go to our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/yoco/life/0f816fe9-ee91-48d2-9f9e-4c8114eb5475/?viewAsMember=true">#YocoLife</a>&nbsp;page or subscribe to our&nbsp;<a href="https://yoco.exposure.co/">Exposure Gallery.</a>Join us on a meaningful journey at Yoco, and help enable our merchants to thrive through Open Commerce!Please note…&nbsp;Yoco encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. Open positions at Yoco are competitive and we often receive high volumes of applicants. If you have not received further updates on your application after three weeks, you’re welcome to request feedback.&nbsp;

Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

The Microsoft Search and Intelligence team is responsible for enabling intelligence in Microsoft products like Outlook, Bing, Windows, and Cortana. We research &amp; develop natural language processing &amp; machine learning infrastructure to process billions of emails and documents a day extracting key inferences &amp; knowledge, serving several powerful intelligent experiences to billions of users guiding them and their organizations make smart decisions.

You would be part of a team working to modernize the way users discover, navigate and search across their organization’s Office365 corpus and help make them more productive. We strive to break down the barriers of traditional search and instead offer the most relevant and contextual based suggestions to help users discover the content they are looking for, spanning their Contacts, Emails, Documents and their organization's data. We work very closely with the Office 365 team to guarantee user privacy and compliance while also offering users a robust set of experiences that help them find what they are looking for.

We are looking for highly motivated, and innovative software engineers who are passionate about building distributed systems to deploy and serve machine learning, classification, and language translation-based end to end solutions.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.&nbsp;

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work

How would you like to directly affect the lives of billions of humans? Would you like to be responsible for code running across tens of thousands of machines across datacenters around the world? What if you could multiply your impact by making developers around the world better? If you like building highly motivated and productive teams, we have got interesting opportunities for you.

Who we are Microsoft FAST has offices in US, China, Norway, and Kenya, and is part of the Experiences &amp; Devices group within Microsoft. Our mission is bold: to help people&nbsp;achieve more through people and knowledge&nbsp;and we are looking for solid, highly motivated engineers who will help making the mission a reality. We are building and running low-latency, highly scalable services that enable Files, People and Search scenarios. Our services power prominent Microsoft 365 products including SharePoint, Exchange, Teams and Microsoft Graph. We can offer an agile development team with diverse skills in algorithms and data structures, big data, data science, machine learning and search technology to mention a few. The position is full-time and based in our Nairobi office, with huge learning and growth opportunities.

As a Microsoft Engineering Manager your responsibilities will include:

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.&nbsp;If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request&nbsp;via the&nbsp;<a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" target="_blank">Accommodation request form</a>.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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