Latest Vacancies at Trouvise

About the Work

• They are looking for an Android Developer responsible for the development and maintenance of our payment app.
• Primary focus will be the development of the payment app, using Kotlin, and the integration with our golang servers using GraphQL.
• As part of the Android team, you will work on delivering the payment platform Android App. As a Android developer, you will collaborate with other members of the product, design, and engineering teams to translate user stories and mockups into a living, breathing product.

Requirements

• B.Sc in Computer Science or equivalent experience, with a keen interest in technology
• Ability to work independently, autonomously, and take initiative, as well as being creative and curious
• An understanding of modern Android development and passion for quality
• Strong Kotlin skills, including:
  • Translate designs and wireframes into high quality code
  • Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code
  • Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
  • Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• A good sense of usability, attention to detail, and polish
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Strong knowledge of the Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

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About the Work

• The ideal candidate should be able to work effectively with other developers, project lead, and quality assurance engineers to solve complex issues, build and maintain a scalable, highly available, secure, and robust system.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with an autonomous team of developers, designers, testers and product owners to find end-to-end solutions to important problems
• Build and maintain the payment solutions which could be used by millions of users in Africa
• Be involved in architectural and design discussions, building toward an efficient, extensible and secure payment system
• Improve test coverage and quality of the products

Requirements

• B.Sc or M.Sc in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming languages, paradigms, constructs and idioms
• Strong knowledge of web architecture and distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of application architecture and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of concurrent programming and thread handling
• Care about quality and understand what it means to ship high-quality code
• Understand how to write scalable, robust, testable, efficient, performant and easily maintainable code
• Experience with code versioning tools such as Git
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with Agile work processes
• Self-motivated, structured, and able to take initiative as well as being creative and curious
• Autonomous working style, with eagerness to improve systems, processes, and yourself
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, and good communication skills

Ideal Job Requirements:

• Knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, idioms, framework and tools:
  • Goroutine and channel patterns
  • Go’s templating language
  • Popular Go web frameworks, such as Gin
  • Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
  • Writing unit and functional tests
• Knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge of web security
• Knowledge of continuous integration/delivery.

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About the Work

• The company is looking for a passionate and engaged graphic designer with experience in advertising or marketing graphic design, web and mobile application visual design experience is a plus, to join our design team.

Responsibilities

• Create graphic design (e.g. campaign posters, banners) aligned with our brand’s look and feel across all channels (e.g. online site, social media, stores)
• Create offline material of print (e.g. poster, notepads, packaging)
• Help design digital projects (e.g. Android/iOS mobile application visual design, website design)
• Design and polish presentation decks based on corporate visual identity
• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines
• Be able to take initiative, be creative and curious, be able to organize design review meetings, and collect feedback from other teammates and from end users
• Communicate and collaborate with other cross-functional teammates

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience working with graphic design
• B.Sc degree in Design or a related field, or demonstrated design knowledge in equivalent practical experience
• Skills in SketchApp and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Intellectual curiosity to explore and push the limits of graphic design and art work
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently
• Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and able to manage priorities well
• Be fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Portfolio required for candidates.

Ideal Job Requirements:

• Motion design
• User experience design.

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About the Work

• The ideal candidate should be able to work together with the developers, development and operations engineers, project leads, and the security team to grow and improve our cloud infrastructure; automate and document changes resolve incidents; and provide developers with necessary cloud infrastructure, license management, and office infrastructure support.

Responsibilities

• Improve and scale infrastructure in AWS according to the needs of the project
• Resolve incidents
• Cooperate with the security team to ensure that our setup remains secure
• Provide technical support for the developers
• Integrating and migrating legacy infrastructure to the cloud
• Managing licenses, hardware inventory and local infrastructure.

Requirements

• B.Sc or M.Sc in IT or equivalent experience
• Self-motivated, structured, quality--driven, and able to take initiative
• Strong systems administration experience with Linux
• Deep understanding of the network stack and traffic routing
• Experience with AWS services, such as ECS, EC2, and EBS
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken, and good communication skills.

Ideal Job Requirements:

• Experience in “infrastructure-as-a-code” platforms (Terraform, etc)
• Hands-on experience with docker containers orchestration
• Programming skills in scripting languages (Python/JavaScript)
• MongoDB administration experience
• Version control systems (GIT).

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About the Work

• As part of the UX team, you will design and deliver a simple and easy-to-use payment experience both on the web and the Android app.
• As a UX Designer, you will collaborate with other members of our product, design, and engineering teams to translate concepts into a living, breathing product.
• You will follow up on the new functionality design and maintain the existing design documentations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, user-friendly design on web and mobile, including interaction design specifications, interactive prototype.
• Maintain existing interaction design, including improving user experience and updating design specifications
• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines
• Work with product managers and design manager to develop design concepts
• Be able to take initiative, be creative and curious, be able to conduct design review meetings, and collect feedback with other teammates
• Communicate and collaborate with other cross-functional teammates
• Assist engineers with the final development of products.

Requirements

• B.Sc degree in Design or a related field, or demonstrated design knowledge in equivalent practical experience
• Fluency in the best practices for web-based and Android application information architecture and design, as well as a strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Self-motivated and capable of working independently
• Skills in SketchApp or Adobe Creative Suite
• An understanding of user-centered design process, methodologies, and principles of usability
• Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and able to manage priorities well
• Be fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Portfolio required for candidates.

Ideal job requirements:

• Visual design and user research skills is a plus
• Motion design.

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About You in this Job

• Skilled and collaborative Senior Software Engineer with the ability to elevate their outputs and contribute to their mission.
• Capable of building robust solutions and delivering high quality products.
• A technical champion and mentor able to share knowledge to a medium-sized team of like-minded individuals and junior Software Engineers.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
• 6+ years as a professional software engineer.
• Experience with both back end and front end development.
• Experience in SQL database.

Relevant technical skills:

• Advanced ability to write code for mobile and web applications using React, JavaScript, NodeJS, React Native and Redux (with some gentle sprinkles of Objective C and Java as required).
• Strong knowledge of building APIs and services on back end using Scala and PostgreSQL.
• You will help decide and plan which features will be built and how they are architected and implemented.
• Building features and products that are user friendly and that help customers grow their businesses.
• Ability to work closely with your team, which will include other Software Engineers, Product Management(s), design and UX minds as well as members of the broader Team.
• Ability and eagerness to learn new -technologies.
• Excellent problem solving skills in real world issues in delivering high quality software.
• Ability to deliver stable and flexible software that can be iterated quickly to deliver features.
• Ability to build reusable solutions that can be used to avoid reinvention every time.

Relevant team skills include

• Highly experienced in working in a SCRUM environment.
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organisation both internally and externally
• Strong problem-solving skills and a detail-oriented mindset in diagnostic information gathering, research, and, application of conceptual thinking.
• Ability to achieve results by being proactive, customer orientated, innovative and highly detail oriented.
• Adaptable and flexible in environs with self confidence and a strong sense of personal credibility and accountability.