Software Engineer(Rails)
Date de publication : 24/09/2024
Requisition ID : 35357
Job Title: Software Engineer (Rails)
Department: Digital & IT
Reporting line: Software Engineering Manager
Location: Kampala or Nairobi
About ENGIE Energy Access
ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.
www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa
Job Purpose/Mission
We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us.
This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond.
Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com.
Responsibilities
Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.
Take well specified tasks and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies with minimal to no supervision.
Represent technical team in business conversations for specific assigned scope and provide effort estimates, risk assessment and coordinate technical implementation
Participate in Peer-Review, contribute to delivering high quality software solutions
Contribute to technical documentation
Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems)
Knowledge and skills
Experience:
3 years of practical experience in software engineering
Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks
Proven track record of building quality software with TDD
Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns
Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring
Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Good to have experience
Experience in developing large production grade web applications
Knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns
Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business
Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
Knowledge of container orchestration
Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.)
Good knowledge on application security
Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions
Qualifications:
Bachelors in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred)
Language(s):
English
French is a plus
Our Technology Stack:
Web framework: Rails 5
Background task: Sidekiq
Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular
API: Grape, Devise
TDD: RSpec
Search: Thinking Sphinx
Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible
Fresh Ideas Always welcome!
We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!