About Us

What you should bring:

• The desire to use your skills to bring about positive social change.
• Experience working in reputable software development scale-ups, and/or high-growth platform startups is a plus.
• Proven experience in writing code. Experience designing system architectures is a plus, but not required.
• A proven record of developing production-grade software in a team.
• A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and testable code. An interest in functional programming is a plus.
• Full-stack experience is a plus.
• Experience with our tech stack is not required; we care about your software engineering skills rather than what technologies you have used!
• We speak and operate in English - knowledge of German is not required.

What we offer:

• An international and passionate team located in Kenya and Germany, who support and help each other grow to achieve the great goal we set out for.
• A welcoming engineering team with whom you will build high-quality software by applying Dev Ops and striving for great software craftsmanship.
• Current tech stack: Apps: Kotlin, Android, Room, Jetpack Compose, continuous integration (Git Hub Actions) Backend: Kotlin, AWS, Mongo DB, Kafka, microservices, infrastructure as code (Terraform), serverless (Lambda/ECS Fargate), continuous deployment (Git Hub Actions) Web: React, Type Script, continuous deployment (Git Hub Actions)
• Our stack is evolving, as we are always looking for the best tool for the job while at the same time keeping the stack as streamlined and as unified as possible. Anyone is invited to propose new technologies.
• Unique technical opportunities given the environment that we operate in: low-cost devices, limited connectivity, non-tech-savvy users, massive scale.
• A modern company culture that emphasizes transparency and freedom. We care about results, and believe people work best when given the freedom to structure their work themselves, so there is a high degree of flexibility with regard to working hours and vacations, and the option to work from home up to four days per week. Additionally, we are open to candidates available on a part-time basis.
• An agile approach informed by data at all levels of the organization.
• Quarterly one-week hackathons where we freely explore new ideas.
• Exciting trips to Kenya (optional) to see your impact firsthand and meet our teachers and learners.
• Defined and transparent salary ranges – you don’t have to negotiate to be paid what you’re worth.
• A (seriously) unparalleled equity scheme.
• Social impact like no one else: we are working to fix one of the world’s biggest problems.