One Acre, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.
We
are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job
Title: Senior Software Engineer ( C# -
Integrations)
Location: Nigeria
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.
Benefits
Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits.
Application
Closing Date
24th January, 2024.
Method
of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
- One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay
any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official
One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.orgaddress. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to
this email address.
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and
anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and
purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel
consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can
thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we
serve.
- We are committed to equal employment
opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national
origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender,
gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity
workplace.