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.

Tools we use:&nbsp;NodeJS, ReactJS, Apollo, GraphQL, Postgres

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

DevOps Engineer

In 2013, SnapScan launched one of the first mobile payment apps in South Africa. By combining our ingenuity with Standard Bank's impressive financial infrastructure and expertise, SnapScan has been changing the way South Africans pay and get paid - one snap at a time.

Our team of passionate problem solvers continues to find faster, easier, and safer ways to transact without the fuss of handling cash or cards. We seek to ensure that people save time and have the best payment experience possible. We strive to remove unnecessary barriers, complex fee structures, and time-consuming admin to provide an innovative and streamlined solution for businesses and app users. Our dedicated team is always happy to assist and we are constantly evolving - as we continue to find new ways to pay in a snap.

As a Software Engineer at SnapScan, you will own, create and maintain solutions

related to our service-oriented architecture, as well as our mobile apps and websites.

You will work on highly-available, resilient systems that more than 1 million users and

60,000 merchants across the country have come to depend on daily.

You will have the opportunity to work across our full product stack: mobile

applications, merchant portal, back-end services, and technical integrations and

infrastructure. Integrations include new features and products that build on the

existing ecosystem to enable, for example, new payment options and methods for our

users, or more accurate and efficient onboarding of new merchants.

You will work within a team, but will, ultimately, be responsible for making your stuff

work. We value a get-things-done approach. You (and your team) will have autonomy

to choose and implement tools and frameworks that best allow you to solve the

● Work with the product manager to gather requirements and estimate

● Expose services through APIs to our mobile apps and merchant portal to

● Peer review code to ensure that we maintain the integrity and quality of our

● Build and maintain technical integrations with 3rd parties

● Maintain infrastructure by automating things through Ansible &amp; Terraform

● Worry about the correct operation of our services, optimising them for

performance, scalability, security, correctness and robustness

● On-call support rotation once you are comfortable with our platform (this is less

scary than it sounds as we have near-zero downtime)

We value openness, psychological-safety and proactiveness. You will have plenty of

We have always maintained that having fewer, highly skilled and invested engineers

delivers stronger results than would be delivered by bigger teams. You will join a

small, highly-leveraged technical team that has buy-in and autonomy to solve

problems using whatever tools are fit for purpose.

While familiarity with our stack would make it quicker for you to get going, it is more

important that you are comfortable with the concepts, rather than specific

● Rails apps/services running on AWS (EC2 and ECS)

● PCI-compliant AWS infrastructure, automated via Terraform

● Postgres databases (choice of DB matters at scale)

● Angular, Typescript, Cordova, Objective-C (iOS) and Java (Android) for our

● React and Typescript for our internal back office portal

Fullstack Engineer

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

Talent is borderless, and we believe the best education should be available to the most deserving students. We provide collateral-free education loans for international masters students, to pursue their dream degrees at the world’s best schools. 

Prodigy Finance was started by three INSEAD MBA graduates who experienced the difficulties of financing an international degree first-hand. In 2007, they decided to solve this problem and revolutionise the market, and Prodigy Finance has since funded over 19,000 students from 115 countries, at over 750 schools around the world. 

To learn more, please visit us at http://prodigyfinance.com/ 

Prodigy Finance is a platform that delivers socially responsible financial services; making it possible for students from more than 150 countries to fulfil their dream of studying at the world’s top universities and schools by financing their international postgraduate studies, whilst delivering competitive financial and social returns to alumni, institutional and private investors.

This borderless and innovative model enables education loan financing to students from across the globe, whilst using predicted post-degree affordability rather than present-day salary. Since 2007, Prodigy Finance has extended over US$1 billion through the platform to fund over 19,000 students.

We are funded by some of the best, pre-eminent institutions in the world including Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, RMIH, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank

As a Senior Software Engineer joining the team at Prodigy Finance you will be exposed to the functioning of the product, operations and business development teams and you will increasingly take on a leadership and decision-making role as we craft the Prodigy Finance platform. Support more senior team members on larger projects and take ownership of smaller projects ensuring accurate and timely project delivery. Focus on strengthening internal relationships with other disciplines.

What are some of the roles and responsibilities of this role?

What would the ideal candidate be great at?

Senior Software Engineer

Innovative tool that helps inspiring and creative people meet each other through shared experiences.

We strongly believe that every person has at least 5 talents that could be turned into a well-paid, valued, and enjoyable job by designing this platform and tool. we are building a global community of creative, proactive, and enthusiastic people with entrepreneurial spirit.

We are here to help you take the first steps, make it work and succeed. we are encouraging everyone to support each other’s talents and interests, teach and learn, have fun and make meaningful connections internationally and locally.

As part of our growth in Tunis, we are looking to hire a Senior DevOps engineer, who would like to have a career in an international company.

Senior DevOps 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

Dimagi was born from the belief that there’s a better way to provide services to those in need. Our mission is to create digital products that support global development efforts and help accelerate the end of extreme poverty. CommCare, our mobile data collection platform, is designed to improve data collection and the quality of frontline services in low-resource settings around the world. We work across various sectors with organizations of all sizes providing mobile solutions that put end-users first. Working with partners that include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, CARE International, and the World Bank, Dimagi has successfully implemented CommCare and supported 2,000 projects across 80 countries. Dimagi is a certified Benefit Corporation and leading social enterprise, working since 2002 towards our commitment to making an impact.

Our Global technology team helps to develop and improve our platform’s architecture and implementation. Since CommCare is used for applications related to many different types of problems, from agricultural extension education to improving delivery outcomes at birth, the software is written as a portable application engine. That means we don’t often build custom code for specific projects.&nbsp;Our team works from high, strategic, and functional levels on our products, down to the low technical level of implementation.

Dimagi is looking for a&nbsp;Software Engineer&nbsp;to join our Global Technology team. This position can be based out of our&nbsp;Cape Town office&nbsp;but is also open to&nbsp;remote work from home employment&nbsp;within South Africa.&nbsp;

This position is ideal for someone who enjoys small organizations, multi-tasking, and a highly flexible work environment. Our developers share a passion for making things work in challenging situations and seeing the impact of our work first-hand.

We aim to make a difference, not just as a company, but as an employer as well.&nbsp; The benefits we offer are geared towards having a strong impact on our staff’s well being. A few of our key benefits are outlined below:

Dimagi is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate and support diversity and all employment decisions are based on individual qualifications.

Junior Full-Stack Developer

Buymore specialises in providing nextgen solutions that make the retail supply and distribution chains in Africa more efficient. 

Our customers range from retail outlets, distributors, manufacturers, development partners, banks and and financial companies. 

Businesses that use our products are better informed and as a result are able to cut costs, increase revenue and margins as well as generate insights and market intelligence that enables them to scale their business to the next level. 

The Opportunity: Senior Web Backend Engineer

Buymore is based in Nairobi. Our pride is in our excellent engineering culture with a knack for delivering amazing customer experiences. We are growing so fast and that is why we are now looking for a smart creative and talented web backend engineer to come and assist us to keep delivering these amazing customer and product experiences. You should know how to have productive technical discussions and be ready to continuously iterate on features based on feedback from our business teams and customers.

You’ll also help in other aspects of building a new company: Designing features, making good product decisions, and building a culture of engineering excellence. While we work independently, we support each other through frequent code and design reviews, daily stand-ups, and pair programming which facilitates learning and reducing friction in our continuous release cycle.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a small and growing engineering team, where you will make a big impact on a robust SaaS product that impacts thousands of retailers everyday and is &nbsp;trusted by some of the top brands in the packaged consumer goods industry.

The preferred candidate we are looking for should have deep technical knowledge in how to build REST APIs in any of these backend stacks: NodeJS, Python, .NET Core or Java Spring and plenty of hands on experience as well.

Buymore is a tech company that specializes in designing and developing nextgen solutions that make the retail supply and distribution chains more efficient.

Businesses that use our products are better informed and as a result are able to cut costs, increase revenue, offer a better customer experience as well as generate consumer insights that enables them to scale their business to the next level. You can learn more about Buymore on:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.buymore.co.ke/">www.buymore.co.ke</a>

3.5 billion people across the world live without reliable electricity access. Our simple plug-and-play solution enables microgrids and distribution utilities operating in hard-to-reach places to improve their operations and help them achieve financial sustainability through a range of features like flexible billing, customer communications and remote monitoring and control.

We envision a world where all people have access to clean, reliable and affordable electricity. In order to get there, we focus on our core value of opportunity: the opportunity for under-served communities to be free and empowered. Our mission is to increase access to electricity in under-served communities - it is electricity and the services derived from it that unlock and create those opportunities. 
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SparkMeter seeks to increase energy access and energy quality across the world.  Our technology transforms utilities from enterprises with unreliable operations, negative cash flow, and credit unworthiness to enterprises that are sustainable, provide high quality of service and can take on outside investment to continue their operations and connect new users to their grids. In turn, utilities can provide reliable power to their customers, increase electricity access and invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency in their systems.

Come join SparkMeter’s Customer Success team in Nairobi and help increase electricity access in developing countries. As a Technical Support Engineer, you will support our microgrid and distribution utility customers around the world as they set up and operate our smart metering system. You’ll engage with our customers everyday and work to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction by making sure that they are getting everything they need as they build and expand their grid projects using our products.

You will be a member of our Nairobi team and work from our Kenya office. You can expect 5% travel to meet with customers, as needed. Travel will typically be to visit customer offices or to remote sites.

This is a full-time role with benefits. Compensation is made of salary and performance bonus.

SparkMeter was founded to promote opportunity in underrepresented communities&nbsp;initially but has since grown into serving urban &amp; peri urban communities as well.

SparkMeter’s core value is opportunity: the opportunity for underserved communities to achieve great things. That's why our mission is to increase access to electricity in underserved communities - it is electricity and the services derived from it that unlock and create those opportunities. This value is reflected in our hiring ethos: we believe that the strongest teams have diverse backgrounds. Our approach to hiring has been validated by academic and industry studies that show that workforce diversity improves team and business performance. (It has also been validated by the quality of the team we’ve assembled so far!) We encourage applications from members of groups currently underrepresented in energy, web development, &amp; software engineering.

You will be a good fit for this role if you have:

Technical Support Engineer

Carbon is a pan-African digital bank focused on serving Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Carbon transformed retail finance with the launch of its digital app in Nigeria and is focused on democratizing opportunity beyond finance for consumers and small and medium enterprises. From our headquarters in Lagos, and offices in London, Nairobi and Ghana our expansion plans will position us in 6 more countries in the North and West of Africa in the next 2 years as we continue to focus on providing access to financial services to the “Next Billion” starting in Africa.

Our Platform teams utilise their software and systems engineering skills to both build up and mentor others, have a toolbox for troubleshooting distributed systems, and are responsible for building and maintaining the tools we are missing. We drive the overall strategy and direction of engineering excellence in service reliability, observability, infrastructure management and incident response.

As a backend engineer in the Platform team, you’ll get to work across a wide range of systems and environments. As a team, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating our physical data centres, all of our networking, the services we consume from AWS, and the software we run on top like Kubernetes, Cassandra, DynamoDB, and Terraform. We're investing a lot of up-front effort in building scalable, secure, and resilient systems, capable of supporting Carbon’s continued growth.

We are looking for candidates who can meet the following criteria - We want to emphasis that we don’t expect you to meet all of the below but would love you to have experience in at least one area.

postgresql

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