Job Recruitment at Andela Nigeria

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, Rwanda and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Python Developer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time

Where You’ll Work
Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software engineers.

What You’ll Do

  • Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
  • Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.

Experience

  • A minimum of 5 - 10 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Required:

  • Expert-level understanding of Python
  • Intermediate-level understanding of at least one other backend language (In addition to the core language): JavaScript, PHP, Ruby. Go, Scala
  • Advanced understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: Flask/Django for Python; Node/Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen/Laravel for PHP.
  • Deep understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs
  • Strong knowledge of at least one cloud hosting platform (Ex: AWS, GCP)
  • Comfort with at least one CI/CD tool (Ex: Jenkins, Travis)
  • Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration techniques
  • Deep understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries
  • Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
  • Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
  • Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.

Preferred:

  • Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools
  • Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
  • Working knowledge of code editor and formatting tools
  • Comfort with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)

Job Position: iOS Developer
Job Location: Lagos | Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

About the job

  • 5+ years of experience in iOS development
  • Strong experience with Swift
  • RxSwift, Flutter, Kotlin, Java, and UI/UX design experience are a plus
  • Passionate about robust code design
  • Familiarity with common architectural practices and principles
  • Portfolio of iOS apps on the App Store, other relevant work

Must Have Skills:

  • Experience in iOS Applications Development.
  • Swift.
  • MVVM.
  • Knowledge in Reactive Frameworks.
  • Know how to interface with REST APIs.

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Position: Data Engineer

Job Location: Remote

Responsibilities

  • We are looking for an engineer skilled in developing for analytics, BI, data vis platforms
  • The candidate will interact daily with the rest of the team (like they are any other member of the team)
  • They will be expected to be senior enough that they can own projects, work with stakeholders and meet deadlines
  • The candidate will work on migration from Redshift to Snowflake, feature engineering for Data Science team and data pipelines related to personalization of email, push and SMS
  • Not just query speed improvements, but helping to implement and redesign our current data pipelines and data lake -> data warehouse -> data mart tables so heavy on ETL
  • Daily standup around 11AM PST, weekly staff meeting, bi-weekly grooming, bi-weekly spring planning, a few other meetings with stakeholders per week

Main Skills:

  • ETL
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • Apache Airflow
  • Spark
  • Snowflake

Great to Haves:

  • Elasticsearch and Kafka
  • AWS (ec2, Redshift, EMR, S3, DMS) 

Primary Skills Required:

  • Looker engineer skilled in data vis, snowflake, data engineering, data architectures, reporting / analytics and dashboard building, data warehousing, SQL

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Position: Javascript Developer

Job Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

  • Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world
  • Collaborate excellently with peers and stakeholders in fast-paced distributed teams, through a love of constructive feedback, dedication and universal respect

Experience

  • A minimum of 5 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built technical expertise and professionalism

Requirements:

  • Intermediate knowledge of at least one front-end framework -- React, Angular, Vue
  • Working knowledge of at least one CSS framework -- Bootstrap, Materialize CSS, Semantic UI
  • Intermediate understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6 features
  • Working knowledge of unit and integration testing and testing frameworks / libraries -- Jest, Jasmine, Mocha
  • Working knowledge of at least one task runner -- gulp, npm scripts
  • Working knowledge of at least one module bundler -- webpack, parcel
  • Working knowledge of at least one version control tool -- Git, Mercurial

Preferred

  • Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact. 
  • Knowledge of code linting and formatting tools -- ESLint, Prettier
  • Working knowledge of Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern.

What You’ll Get

  • Competitive compensation
  • Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field 
  • A chance to change the world for the better

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Position: Java Software Engineer

Job Location: Nigeria (Remote)

Job Description
What You’ll Do:

  • Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
  • Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications
  • Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks
  • Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities
  • Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community
  • Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website.
  • Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Qualifications

  • High degree of empathy
  • 5+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Java.
  • Strong written communication skills
  • Experience team leading/management.
  • Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience - preferable)
  • Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs
  • Experience building highly available services at scale

Remuneration
What You’ll Get:

  • Competitive compensation
  • Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
  • A chance to change the world for the better

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online


Job Position: Android Developer

Job Location: Lagos
Employment type: Full time

Job Description

  • 5+ years of experience in Android development
  • Strong experience with Java or Kotlin
  • Flutter, Swift, UI/UX design experience, and working with distributed teams is a plus.
  • Passionate about robust code design
  • Familiarity with common architectural practices and principles.
  • Portfolio of Android apps on the Google Play Store, other relevant work
  • Ability to quickly absorb technical concepts and communicate them to a non-technical audience.

Must Have Skills:

  • Experience in Android Applications Development
  • Kotlin
  • MVVM - Jetpack components
  • Knowledge in Reactive Frameworks
  • Know how to interface with REST APIs

Bonus Skills:

  • Java 8

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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