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About the Role

• Our passionate development team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truck loads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments and analyzing loan repayments. You will report to one of our development managers.
• We operate a stack of open-source solutions to power most of our business, including Odoo, Apache Fineract, and Keycloak.
• Our technologies include C#, NodeJS, CouchBase, React (Native), Docker/Kubernetes, and our tooling landscape is based on GitHub / JIRA / Slack / Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, document, test, and operate customizations on our Odoo platform, focused around product ordering, inventory, payment, and delivery
• Mentor the team on the Odoo platform and ecosystem
• Work as part of a small, collaborative, and agile team of software developers
• Contribute to your department's improvement by sharing knowledge, sharpening your skills, suggesting different ways of working

Qualifications

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

• Extensive experience in the Odoo ecosystem and plugin development - 2+ years recommended
• 3+ years of experience, solid programming skills, autonomy, and a mindset of testing and automation
• High proficiency in Python
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science strongly preferred
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous integration
• Experience working in Agile
• Awareness of cloud technologies including Docker and Kubernetes is welcome

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About the Role

• As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend integration at One Acre Fund, you will be an important member of our Middleware Engineering Team.
• Your primary focus will craft backend solutions crucial to our field operations, specifically dealing with system integrations in an event-driven manner to ensure seamless data communication across different platforms

Responsibilities

Development:

• Promote the development of APIs that facilitate real-time access to inventory data, stock levels, and other crucial information across our rural retail shops and warehouses.
• Implement and oversee real-time synchronization solutions to ensure seamless data communication between our Odoo-managed retail operations and SAP-managed warehouse systems.

Integration and Event-Driven Architecture:

• Engage in the development of event-driven architectures.
• Produce and consume events to ensure scalable system integrations.

Technical Collaboration:

• Collaborate within an agile team of dedicated developers to ensure seamless progression of projects.
• Participate in the Agile team's lifecycle, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

Optimization and Scalability:

• Collaborate on optimizing our backend infrastructure to ensure it’s scalable, efficient, and able to handle concurrency challenges.

Knowledge Sharing and Mentorship:

• Share knowledge, hone skills, suggest innovations, and provide mentorship to junior members to contribute to departmental growth.

Project Independence:

• Independently work on projects ensuring delivery of high-quality work meeting organizational standards.

Qualifications

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

• 6 years in Software Development with a focus on backend integration and middleware engineering.
• Excellent proficiency in C# .Net
• Proficiency in one or more of tech stacks including OpenFaaS, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Redis and Node.js.
• Emphasis on API design, system synchronization, real-time event-driven architecture, and distributed transactions.
• An orientation towards testing and automation to ensure the robustness of system integrations.
• Experience working in Agile environments with a thoughtful understanding of Agile principles and practices.
• Handle scaling challenges, ensure system resiliency, and work on traceability of distributed transactions.
• Capability to work independently on projects ensuring delivery of high-quality work.