Do you love creating fantastic user experiences?Are youpassionate about creating innovative technology to improve the quality of peoples work and lives? Do you believe that Africa can lead the world when it comes to technology innovation? Does working in a dynamic research environment appeal to you?If so, then come and join us in the, Nairobi, Kenya. The MARI is a first of its kind research institute, closely combining foundational research, with product innovation,engineeringand design to create the technologies of the future. Our mission is to understand, build and deploy innovative cloud and AI technologies which not only address core opportunities in Africa and contribute to solving local challenges at scale, but which also help to create a more productive future of work,healthand society globally.
We are looking for afull stack engineer of the highest caliber tojointhis new research institute. The idealcandidate will be smart and creative, and?willing to embrace new concepts and ideas, and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to create groundbreaking new technologies.They will enjoy working onmultiple platforms (Mobile, Desktop, Web). There will be the opportunity to contribute toopen sourceprojects and share ideas with theopen sourcecommunity.To?deliver on?our?mission?to?empower people and organizations to achieve more,?we need?to create beautiful and intuitive user experiences and are?seeking a skilled mobile/front-end?developer.?The position?is full-time and based in our Nairobi office.?
Responsibilities
Create cutting edge new technologies as part of a multi-disciplinaryteam Working with researchers and designers toformulate specifications forfeatures Rapidly and iteratively build and test researchprototypes Buildand testsolutions from research prototype toproduct Participate in the building of solutions from research prototype toproduct Drive improvements in usability and interactivity? Architect and implement features for maximum shared code, testability, and performance. Learn,?grow?and share your technical skills?with?rich opportunities to attendconferences
Qualifications
5+ years of working experience Interest and excitement working in/with JavaScript/TypeScriptand React/React Nativefor cross-platform components. You have experience building web and/or mobile applications, from UI to services. UX development for one of the following platforms, with associated standard framework familiarity: Android, Web, Windows. Experiencein developing and deploying services on cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP Understanding of some of the following languages: C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Objective C, Swift. You are proactive and a driving force to get things done. You have great written and oral presentation skills.
