One Acre Fund - Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund.
We
are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Mobile Engineer (Android Kotlin)
Location: Niger, Nigeria
Preferred Start Date: As soon as possible
About the Role
- Our passionate development team manages a
range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from
registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery
truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments,
and analyzing loan repayments.
- You will work as part of a small,
collaborative, and agile team of mobile developers, and will report to our
Senior Engineering Manager.
Specific
challenges that our mobile solutions have to overcome include:
- High usability requirements - targeting
users with low technical proficiency
- Offline-first, to provide a good
experience with no or limited network connectivity
- Ability to run on inexpensive hardware
- Our mobile technology is Android using
Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Couchbase Lite, JUnit, Sentry, and our tooling
landscape is based on GitHub / JIRA / Slack / Azure DevOps / MS App
Center.
Responsibilities
- You will design, document, test, and
support our mobile solutions
- You will participate in your Agile team's
lifecycle
- You will contribute to your department's
improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting
different ways of working, and developing
- You will provide technical mentoring to
junior team members
Career
Growth and Development:
- We have a strong culture of constant
learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly
check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs,
and regular feedback on your performance.
- We hold career reviews every six months
and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals.
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape a
growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.
Qualifications
For this role specifically, you will have:
- 6+ years of experience in software
development
- 3 years of experience in Android using
Kotlin
- Conversance with Android App
Architecture,, including View Models and Dependency Injection with HILT
- Experience in Jetpack Compose, Jetpack
Room, Jetpack Data Store and other Jetpack /Android X Libraries is a plus
- A mindset of testing and automation
- Experience working in Agile
- A passion for solving problems and a
customer mindset
Eligibility:
- One Acre Fund can support a work permit
for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive
professional background and work history in) our countries of operation
are preferred.
Benefits
- Health insurance, housing, and
comprehensive benefits
Application
Closing Date
5th March, 2024.
Method
of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to
apply online
Note
- One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay
any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official
One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.orgaddress.
Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org),but do not send applications or application materials to this
email address.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and
anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and
purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel
consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can
thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we
serve.
- We are committed to equal employment
opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national
origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender,
gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity
workplace.