Software Developer at One Acre Fund 164 views0 applications

One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.

Software Developer  

Responsibilities for the Software Developer Job

• Writing, testing, and deploying as part of the team quality systems for our MS-SQL/C#/Angular stack.
• Producing a field-facing, mission-critical Program Management System.
• Participating in the continued development of our mission-critical custom database, which impacts every aspect of the organization’s operations.
• Developing features allowing for flexibility in the way individual countries run their operations, while still focusing on reusability across countries.
• Maintaining a long-term perspective when faced with urgent operational demands.
• After settling in, providing guidance and mentorship for a team or a subset of our team of 18+ developers and
• QA professionals and helping to shape and achieve strategic objectives
• Maintaining coding standards and participating in peer code reviews.
• Operational insight: Becoming familiar with every aspect of our field operations and identifying areas for improvement in the tools we develop to support the field.
• Other tasks: We are a young organization that is growing rapidly, which means all staffers pitch in to ensure we are providing the very best support and services to both our team and clients.
• Improve our existing tools to capture a wide variety of program configurations per country and provide functionality for a multitude of field product and process innovations.
• Provide central management and reporting tools while maintaining a focus on field usability.
• Build out efficient bulk data entry functionality with a heavy focus on data quality control, as well as field-facing mobile and tablet data entry, and reporting where appropriate.

Software Developer Job Qualifications

• We are seeking 1-2 exceptional professional(s) with 4+ years of work experience and ideally a demonstrated passion for international development. Candidates who fit the following criteria are strongly encouraged to apply:
• Strong work experiences.
• Demonstrated ability in one or more of following leadership roles:
• Technical: Primary responsibility for technical guidance and direction within a project or across projects.
• Team: Managing the careers and interactions of multiple developers, identifying strengths and weaknesses and deploying resources appropriately.
• Project: Managing technical calendars, strategic goals, and interactions between developers and stakeholders for successful implementations
• We are looking for passionate professionals who combine strong leadership skills with good humor, patience, and a humble approach to service to join our growing family of leaders.
• A willingness to commit to living in rural areas of East Africa for at least two years – this is a long-term, career-track role. The ideal candidate will have at least one year demonstrated experience working in the developing world, although this is not a strict requirement.