Nigeria Tech Specialist at One Acre Fund

About the Role

• The Tech Specialist will own the end-to-end technical delivery of our field and internal solutions. You will use approved AI coding tools and development agents to accelerate architecture, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Responsibilities
Product &  Software Development — 40%:

• Design, build, and maintain mobile, web, backend, and data solutions.
• Develop reliable digital workflows that support both online and offline use.
• Build scalable, maintainable features that support operational and business requirements.
• Integrate systems, data, and services to deliver a seamless user experience.

Architecture & Data — 20%:

• Integrate systems, data, and services to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and ongoing evolution of the platform.
• Design secure and scalable data models, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Ensure reliable data synchronization, validation, and consistency across systems.

Engineering Productivity & AI — 10%:

• Support the platform’s growth from early-stage deployment to large-scale operations.
• Use modern development tools, including approved AI-assisted engineering tools, to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Apply strong engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Review and validate all code and technical outputs before production release.

Security, Quality & Reliability — 20%:

• Follow secure software development and data-protection practices.
• Implement appropriate access controls, auditability, monitoring, and operational safeguards.
• Develop and maintain automated testing and deployment processes.
• Support reliable releases, system performance, issue resolution, backup, and recovery.

Collaboration & Delivery — 10%:

• Translate product and business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and other stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Support testing, pilots, production launches, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and support effective knowledge transfer.

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience and 3 years of experience delivering production full-stack applications.
• Advanced full-stack engineering across mobile, web, backend, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Flutter, React Native, Kotlin, or another Android-capable framework.
• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, or a comparable web framework.
• Strong backend experience using TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java, C#/.NET, Go, or a comparable production stack.
• Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, backups, recovery, and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to implement automated unit, integration, API, mobile, and end-to-end tests.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools safely and productively.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer capabilities.