Jobs at NewGlobe

Description
Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.
• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.
• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations. Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

About the Role

• NewGlobe has been data-driven from its inception, using a build-measure-learn approach to all aspects of service delivery.
• As a scale model business, we have an unprecedented opportunity to bring statistical power to all aspects of an educational operation, from the academics’ team using randomised controlled trials to validate the best teaching methods to the schools team understanding which factors contribute to teacher turnover to operational teams striving to improve our service delivery efficiency.
• However, as the size and complexity of our business has grown, we now want to bring in someone who can lead our efforts  to consolidate and standardise our reporting capabilities, establishing a fully realised data warehouse and associated data marts, introducing continuous delivery practices, and partnering with key stakeholders to evolve our data offerings even further.
• To do this will require someone who can thrive in an environment of “build the airplane while flying it” - ensuring that we’re simultaneously responsive to the short term needs of the business and also looking to invest in the long term health and evolution of the platform.
• The Lead Engineer, Business Intelligence will be complemented by a team of three additional BI engineers and analysts to help achieve this mission, and will report into the NewGlobe Data Architect.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the effective data governance of business data, including data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of business data
• Manage day to day intake of BI requests, including stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, prioritisation, and ultimately execution.
• Communicate with business and outside actors to develop requirements for new analytical capabilities
• Build and maintain data ETL pipelines that read from heterogeneous data sources
• Improve the scalability, stability, accuracy, and efficiency of our existing data systems
• Monitor operations on data warehouse servers in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure continuous integration of data into warehouses
• Lead the BI team, providing support for the team members in their daily tasks, prioritising work as required by the business objectives and ensuring team engagement and wellbeing
• Provide performance management for BI team - e.g. ensuring everyone in the team has clear objectives, support team members through the year to reach their goals and provide performance feedback.

What You Should Have

• Expertise with core Microsoft data platform, especially Microsoft SQL Server 2019, SSIS, and SSRS
• Fluency with warehouse design and dimension modelling (star schemas, snowflakes, etc)
• Passion for Business Intelligence Development across a variety of tools and technologies
• Basic DBA skills (though we do have a separate DBA team)
• Familiarity with version control, continuous delivery, and test-driven development is a bonus
• Understanding of NoSQL databases and unstructured data is a bonus
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Experience or interest in results-driven, lean/agile environments
• Previous experience with leading technical teams (4-7 engineers)
• Relevant previous experience as a data engineer/BI Lead of (5-7) years.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

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Description
Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.
• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day. Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations. 
• Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world. No kidding.

Software Development Department:

• The software development department handles all aspects of delivery related to our custom software applications and services - everything that it takes to turn an idea into working software and delivering value to our users.
• The department is structured into cross-functional, self-organising teams that work together on projects, short and long, alongside product designers and key business stakeholders.

About the Role

• We are looking for an experienced full time Senior Android Engineer, Software Development to join our new Lagos-based cross-functional software development team, which will build the software that powers and improves our ability to deliver massive learning gains – at scale. 
• The Lagos team will have a special focus on the learning management platform and the rest of the technology running in our academies (which is all Android based).
• This person will join an elite, interdisciplinary team that will be building the technology that will take NewGlobe to the next level. It's a great opportunity to grow and learn, while working on developing software with a mission that few, if any, can compete with. 
• We believe in innovation, fast feedback, and high impact. We have an existing portfolio of native Android applications that undergird our ability to support self-sufficient academy management, engage the local community, and deliver high-quality education to our pupils.
• However, we need someone that can drive the next generation of these platforms, ensuring high availability even in challenging conditions and generally driving innovation in the mobile space.
• It's all about rolling up one's sleeves to introduce best practices, deliver key functionality, and pave the way for exciting future possibilities, like adaptive curriculums and automated grading of tests (to name just a few).

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in related field with superior academic performance
• At least 3 years of professional Android development experience. Senior Android Engineer, especially published apps on Google Play
• Full lifecycle experience, from conceptualisation to deployment to feedback from production
• Experience with writing library projects that get reused across multiple android apps 
• Knowledge of Gradle and DI helpful
• Experience architecting whole Android applications, not just adding features or porting existing apps
• Belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for Android apps
• Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, especially in an environment of weekly (or even more frequent) releases to production
• Love for collaboration and working with driven stakeholders, including presenting work with confidence when interacting with business owners and users
• Openness and eagerness for learning new paradigms and practices
• Passion for NewGlobe's vision of democratising the right for all children to succeed.

You’re also:

• A detailed doer – You have a track record of getting things done. You’re organized and responsive. You take ownership of every idea you touch and execute it to a fine level of detail, setting targets, engaging others, and doing whatever it takes to get the job done. You can multi-task dozens of such projects at once and never lose sight of the details. Likely, you have some experience in a start-up or other rapid-growth company.
• A networking mastermind – You excel at meeting new people and turning them into advocates.  You communicate in a clear, conscientious, and effective way in both written and oral speech. You can influence strangers in the course of a single conversation. Allies and colleagues will go to bat for your ideas. You have an existing network from prior experience in the country, preferably in the regulatory, education, or business sectors.
• A creative problem-solver – Growing any business from scratch comes with massive and constant challenges. On top of that, NewGlobe works in often fragile, sometimes volatile low-resource communities and with complex government systems. You need to be flexible and ready to get everything done effectively, quickly, and affordably with the materials at hand.
• A relentless advocate –The children we serve and teachers we empower never leave your mind. You know them, get them, have shared a meal with them (or would be happy to in the future). You would never shrink back from shaking a parent’s hand or picking up a crying child, no matter what the person was wearing or looked like.  Every decision you make considers their benefit, experience,
  and value.
• A malleable learner –You believe you can always do better. You welcome constructive criticism and provide it freely to others.  You know you only get better tomorrow when others point out where you’ve missed things or failed today.
• A curious investigator – You ask why a lot. You don’t just take what you see and accept it. You wonder why it is that way, and are aware that the world we see is created by human choices and actions – and it could be different. You wonder, and see the world as wonderful even when you want to change a part of it that is unjust.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

go to method of application »

Description
Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.
• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.
• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations.Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

Business Intelligence Department:

• The business intelligence department is responsible for classifying and aggregating data from all of Bridge’s various technology platforms (both custom and off the shelf) and ensuring those data are highly available, consistent, and ready for analysis.
• The department also partners with statisticians and analysts from NewGlobe’s other departments to produce actionable and sustainable insights at scale.

About the Role

• NewGlobe has been data-driven from its inception, using a build-measure-learn approach to all aspects of service delivery.
• As a scale model business, we have an unprecedented opportunity to bring statistical power to all aspects of an educational operation, from the academics team using randomised controlled trials to validate the best teaching methods to the schools team understanding which factors contribute to teacher turnover to operational teams striving to improve our service delivery efficiency.
• However, as the size and complexity of our business has grown, we now want to bring in someone who can lead our efforts  to consolidate and standardise our reporting capabilities, establishing a fully realised data warehouse and associated data marts, introducing continuous delivery practices, and partnering with key stakeholders to evolve our data offerings even further.
• To do this will require someone who can thrive in an environment of “build the airplane while flying it” - ensuring that we’re simultaneously responsive to the short term needs of the business and also looking to invest in the long term health and evolution of the platform.
• The Business Intelligence engineer will be part of the newly formed  Business Intelligence team that will focus on creating and maintaining the Analytical Dashboards used across our company.

What You Will Do

• Contribute to the effective data governance of business data, including data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of business data
• Manage day to day intake of BI requests, including stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, prioritisation, and ultimately execution.
• Communicate with business and outside actors to develop requirements for new analytical capabilities
• Build and maintain data ETL pipelines that read from heterogeneous data sources
• Improve the scalability, stability, accuracy, and efficiency of our existing data systems
• Monitor operations on data warehouse servers in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure continuous integration of data into warehouses
• Lead the BI team, providing support for the team members in their daily tasks, prioritising work as required by the business objectives and ensuring team engagement and wellbeing 
• Provide performance management for BI team - e.g. ensuring everyone in the team has clear objectives, support team members through they year to reach their goals and provide performance feedback.

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Expertise with core Microsoft data platform, especially Microsoft SQL Server 2019, SSIS, and SSRS
• Fluency with warehouse design and dimension modelling (star schemas, snowflakes, etc)
• Passion for Business Intelligence Development across a variety of tools and technologies
• Basic DBA skills (though we do have a separate DBA team)
• Familiarity with version control, continuous delivery, and test driven development is a bonus
• Understanding of NoSQL databases and unstructured data is a bonus
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a fast paced environment
• Experience or interest in results-driven, lean/agile environments
• Relevant previous experience as a data engineer/BI Lead of 4-5 years.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

go to method of application »

Description
Technology Group:

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.
• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.
• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations.Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

Software Development Department:

• The software development department handles all aspects of delivery related to our custom software applications and services - everything that it takes to turn an idea into working software and delivering value to our users.
• The department is structured into cross-functional, self-organising teams that work together on projects, short and long, alongside product designers and key business stakeholders.

About the Role

• We are looking for a full time Lead Full-Stack Engineer to head up one of our cross-functional software development teams, which builds the software that powers and improves our competitive advantage.
• In addition to being technically excellent and an individual contributor, a Team Lead is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of their project (looking across all disciplines and technology stacks) and for ensuring that their team is following agreed norms and processes.
• This person should be familiar with design and implementation issues specific to a data driven, highly scalable environments and be able to handle such issues with flexibility and ingenuity.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a proven track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Design, implement, and support new products and features, including overseeing the technical design and architecture of projects
• Grow and lead an software development team of 5-7 engineers 
• Collaborate with project sponsors and product designers to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise value
• Analyse and improve the overall software architecture, with a focus on maintainability and scalability
• Mentor and develop members of the team, from daily interactions to broader professional development goals

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• A BA / BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Minimum of  5 years of enterprise software development experience
• Comfort recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for highly-available, scalable, and reliable implementations; but also the experience to take on technical debt where appropriate
• Enterprise-level experience with continuous delivery practises and tools
• Advocacy of test-driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)
• Experience with pair-programming and other XP practises a plus
• Expertise in several of the following areas (and interested in learning about the rest):                       
  • Web services and API design, especially in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem
  • Android applications, especially “offline-first”
  • JavaScript Web Applications, especially Progressive Web Applications
  • Data engineering - data pipelines that cleanse, classify, and aggregate data sets
  • Highly scalable architectures (e.g. CQRS, Event Sourcing,  queues, circuit breakers, etc.)
  • Monitoring in all its forms - error monitoring, synthetic monitoring, performance monitoring, user monitoring, etc.
  • Security and identity management - OAuth, penetration testing, software supply chain
  • Cloud and Hybrid deployment models
  • Databases and ORMs - esp. MS SQL Server/T-SQL (and EF, Dapper, etc.); but also other forms of persistence
• Experience in a lean delivery environment and understand not only the mechanics, but also the underlying motivations
• NewGlobe uses primarily .NET (server-side), Vue.JS (web apps) and Kotlin (Android native), so experience in these toolchains is preferable; however, NewGlobe also values developers with diverse experience, so serious exposure to other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs) is a bonus
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
• Interest in open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.