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Are you looking for Engineering Jobs in Uganda 2024? If yes, then you might be interested in Software Engineer job at ENGIE Energy Access
Kampala, Uganda
Full-time
Deadline:
April 11, 2024 at 2:00:00 PM
About the Organisation
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 1.8 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.
Job Title
Software Engineer job at ENGIE Energy Access
Job Description
We are looking for a talented, self-starting software engineer to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets.
This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact.
Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale.
Duties and Responsibilities
Contribute to the bi-weekly 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 ….)
Take requirements and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with minimal to no supervision.
Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs.
Participate and contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, assumptions, etc...
Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance
provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g due to bugs or performance problems, on-call)
Qualifications and Competencies
At least 3 years of relevant experience
Programming language proficiency in Python and mastery of at least one web frameworks (Django, Flask, fast API)
Good knowledge of object relational mappers (and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, PostgreSQL and storage options
Strong knowledge of design patterns and OOP practices, TDD
Strong API development and documentation experience
Experience using observability and monitoring tools
Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security
Experience with git: GitHub/Gitlab based source code management and deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Desired skills:
Javascript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of one JS framework
HTML4/5, CSS3, AJAX, Bootstrap along with strong knowledge of DOM
Strong software engineering and architectural patterns background (MVC, MVP, CQRS, DDD, SOLID, hexagonal, Microservices)
Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elastic cache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering
Good experience on high availability, observability and structured logging
API design to scale in Python (REST, GraphQL,Apollo...)
Knowledge of container and container orchestration
Web and application Server backend management is a strong advantage
Good knowledge of web application security with standards such as OWASP
Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2 ,RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions
Qualifications:
Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science)
How to Apply
APPLICATION FOR THIS POSITION MUST BE DONE ONLINE:
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