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  • Posted: Mar 13, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world-class remote developers and connects them with top employers. Andela finds the brightest young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to thrive as full-time, remote developers for companies around the world. The company is backed by investors including Steve Case, Omidya...
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    Technical Team Lead - Node.JS

    Locations: Accra, Ghana, Cairo, Egypt, Kampala, Uganda, Kigali, Rwanda, Lagos, Nigeria, Nairobi, Kenya

    Where You’ll Work

    • Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software engineers.
    • Based in NYC, SF, Kigali, Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Accra and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.
    • A day in the life of a team Software Engineer: Our team is distributed worldwide which means we work asynchronously most of the time. Your typical week would include:
    • Collaborating with design, analytics, support, and product management to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can solve them;
    • Discussing and collaboratively solving engineering and product problems with engineering collaborators in Slack or Zoom;
    • Opening a Pull Request to implement the next most important feature or fix the most critical bug;
    • Trying to reproduce a reported bug and responding to issues we’ve received from the community;
    • Reviewing your teammates' Pull Requests and providing helpful feedback;
    • Working with your engineering manager in your one-on-one meetings to grow your team and career; and
    • Communicating with users to discover what they love and what their pain points are.

    Responsibilities

    • Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications;
    • Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks;
    • Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities;
    • Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community;
    • Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website; and
    • Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.

    Qualifications

    • Strong written communication skills;
    • High degree of empathy;
    • 6+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Node.JS;
    • Experience team leading/management;
    • Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience);
    • Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs; and
    • Experience building highly available services at scale

    What You’ll Get

    • Full-time compensation
    • Full medical coverage
    • Lunch and snacks provided daily
    • Beautiful working environment
    • Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
    • A chance to change the world for the better 

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Andela on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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