Software Engineer

over 3 years ago
Full time role
Kampala, Central Region, UG... more
Kampala, Central Region, UG... more

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Fenix International produces ultra-affordable mobile enabled solar solutions to empower more than 1.3 billion people living off-grid. Fenix is a ...

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Job Description

Job Title: Software Engineer
Department: Digital - Software Engineering
Reporting line: Software Engineering Manager
Location: Kampala/Berlin

About ENGIE BU Africa Access to Energy (A2E)

ENGIE is the largest independent electricity producer in the world, and one of the major players in natural gas and energy services. The Group has more than 50 years of experience on the African continent and has the unique ability to implement integrated solutions all along the energy value chain, from centralized electricity production to off-grid solutions (Solar Home Systems, mini-grids) and energy services. ENGIE Africa counts nearly 4,000 employees, has 3.15 GW of power generation capacity - in operation or construction, and is a leader in the decentralized off-grid energy market (Access to Energy) providing clean energy electricity to more than 4 million people through domestic solar installations and local mini grids. 

ENGIE Africa created a new business line Access to Energy (A2E) which encompasses the activities of Fenix, Mobisol (2 companies providing Solar Home Systems solutions) and ENGIE PowerCorner (active in mini-grids construction and operations). With these three entities, ENGIE Africa underlined that it is bringing decentralised electricity to more than four million people in nine countries. This initiative also illustrates ENGIE Africa’s strong belief in the huge potential of these activities and has built a leading and unique position in the A2E African market and is willingness to input all the necessary resources to make these activities business scalable and grow and deliver on its promises both in terms of revenues and social impact.
www.engie-africa.com  
www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa 

Job Purpose/Mission 

We are looking for a talented, self-starting full-stack 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.     

Responsibilities  

  1. Strongly contribute to the regular 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 ….) 
  2. 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. 
  3. Develop complex software that optimally uses resources to best meet customer needs. 
  4. 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. 
  5. 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... 
  6. Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance 
  7.  provide support where engineering intervention is required(e.g due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills 

Experience: 

  • At least 2 years of relevant experience 
  • Good knowledge of object relational mappers(and their implementation design patterns), No SQL, MySQL/PostgreSQL and storage options 
  • Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring 
  • Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD) 
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 
  • Working knowledge of good practices for computer and data security 
  • Experience with git and GitHub/GitLab based source code management 

Qualifications: 

  • Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science) 

 Language(s): 

  • English 
  • French is a plus 

Technology: 

  • Programming language proficiency in Python and python web frameworks (Django, Flask…) or Ruby and RubyOnRails 
  • Javascript and typescript proficiency with strong knowledge of  Angular JS or VueJS framework(including angular 1.*) and hands on SPA implementation 
  • 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)  
  • TDD in javascript and python/Ruby 
  • Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications in cloud context: elasticache, distributed task processing, load balancing, containerization, clustering 
  • Good experience on high availability, observability and structured logging 
  • API design to scale in Python/Ruby (REST, GraphQL,Apollo...) 
  • Knowledge of container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes(and associated tools such as Kops, ksync, telepresence, terraform...),  is a strong advantage 
  • Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Nginx, etc) 
  • 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  

 

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! 

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