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Moove is on a mission to make Africa and other emerging markets more productive and successful by redefining access to auto finance and vehicle ownership. Our starting point is a technology-enabled lending model to radically transform the availability of auto finance and vehicles for on-demand ridesharing services across tier 1 African cities. By doing so, Moove is creating sustainable jobs for mobility entrepreneurs in the mobility sector.
This senior developer position is integral to the end-to-end development of our best-in-class enterprise platform which will serve our drivers, business clients, partners, and executive team. You will work as part of a team and help design, develop, and deliver the technology and applications that totally powers every aspect of the business from driver onboarding and registration to real-time maintenance and analytics.
This position requires a developer who has considerable knowledge and experience with building scalable and fault-tolerant backend platforms as well as the development of internal and external APIs with major emphases on real-time data. Our ideal candidate has to be very experienced in a major backend framework like NodeJS or Django as well as considerable experience integrating with RESTful APIs. Experience working with real-time data, data pipelines, and databases (Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, MongoDB) are highly desirable but more than anything, we are looking for a developer who has the ability to research and quickly create PoCs that will work best for our needs.
What You’ll be Doing
Design, prototype, and architect scalable and fault-tolerant platforms that work seamlessly on web and mobile platforms
Designing and developing complex data pipelines to merge, enrich, query, and visualize data from multiple sources and formats
Designing and developing Inbound & Outbound APIs
Collaborating with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
Our Stack
AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB)
Docker
RESTful APIs & GraphQL
Django / NodeJS
Serverless
Elasticsearch / MongoDB
What You will need for this position
2+ years of overall development experience which ideally includes working with a dynamic programming language
Experience with either NodeJS or Django
A lot of experience working with RESTful APIs for data access
Experience with agile development methodologies with Test Driven Development (TDD) and CD (Continuous Delivery)
Experience with tools such as Git, Webpack, NPM, Yarn
Excellent Documentation skills
Great Communicator: Ability to work independently on assigned tasks while keeping stakeholders informed of progress, setbacks, and updated timelines
You’ll immediately move to the top of the list if you can meet any of these requirements
Understanding and experience with JS front end frameworks (Vue, Angular, React)
Experience integration GraphQL with a major frontend JS framework
Experience in one or more of the following: (Docker, Kubernetes, Nginx)
Familiarity with SQL and database technology such as Postgres/MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
Job Description
We are seeking a resourceful and hands-on Front-end Engineer to join the rapidly growing development team. The ideal candidate should have a serious passion for user-centered design and development; believes in constantly evolving and improving through iteration, testing, user research, and experimentation; and has the agility to go from the whiteboard design of an application all the way to superior code implementation
Primary Responsibilities
Develop new applications and maintain current applications to support
Take charge and be a decision driver for assigned web platforms
Ability to explain issues, decisions, and solutions to the team succinctly
Produce prototypes and effectively articulate design decisions
Keep up-to-date on emerging technology solutions, particularly those on JavaScript, for continuous improvements in front-end application development and end-user experience
Required Skills
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related programming degree
Extensive web development experience (with associated portfolio) in lieu of a degree
Knowledge of data visualization and charting libraries (e.g. D3, Recharts, DC, C3, Plotly, etc.)
Extensive experience in javascript programming and modern javascript frameworks like React, Vue, Backbone or Angular
Expertise in building complex layouts with CSS and HTML
Ability to create mockups and prototypes quickly
Ability to interact with and integrate RESTful API platforms/endpoints
Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure (e.g AWS)
A propensity for proper documentation and source control
Applicants should send CVs to talent@moove.africa using the job title as subject of the mail
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