The Company: Samasource is an award-winning social enterprise with a huge vision – to connect the one billion people living in poverty around the world to work through technology.
Supported by major corporate and philanthropic funders including Google, Microsoft, eBay and The MasterCard Foundation, Samasource gives work to thousands of youth, women and underprivileged persons throughout Africa and Asia.
Software Engineer Position
The Role:
1. You will lead the building of a number of productivity tools that range from reporting, workflow management and CMS tools
2. You will help to monitor and maintain online software platform that distributes work across the developing world.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Proactively responding to software issues & bugs
- Collaborating with different teams on product upkeep & features
- Writing clean, elegant, object-oriented software tools
- Providing technical & logistical assistance to office staff
- Pairing remotely with colleagues in the US
Desired Skills:
- 2+ years’ experience in system administration and/or server-side web programming
- Ruby and/or Rails experience
- Advanced Javascript
- Solid knowledge of SQL (Postgres preferred)
- An understanding of web server & service technologies (Apache, Nginx, Heroku, AWS preferred)
- Experience with NewRelic or similar server monitoring tools
- Familiarity with unix-based command lines
- Strong written & spoken English
- A passion for helping to alleviate poverty & inequality
- Ability to work in Kenya required, no work visa sponsorship available for this position
To apply for this position visit Samasource careers page on http://www.samasource.org/people/#jobs