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 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
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. 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
• Experience with CouchBase Lite or MongoDB Realm is a major plus
• A mindset of testing and automation
• Experience working in Agile
• A passion for solving problems and a customer mindset
Job application procedure
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More Information
- Address Kampala, Uganda, East Africa
