Software Engineer(Rails) job at ENGIE Energy Access

Vacancy title:
Software Engineer(Rails)

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Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, October 09 2024 

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 25 2024, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Job Purpose/Mission??
We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us.
This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond.
Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service .

Responsibilities?
• Participate in the 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 etc.
• Take well specified tasks and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies with minimal to no supervision.
• Represent technical team in business conversations for specific assigned scope and provide effort estimates, risk assessment and coordinate technical implementation
• Participate in Peer-Review, contribute to delivering high quality software solutions
• Contribute to technical documentation
• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems)
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Knowledge and skills???
Experience:?
• 3 years of practical experience in software engineering
• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks
• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD
• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns
• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring
• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Good to have experience??
• Experience in developing large production grade web applications
• Knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns
• Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business
• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
• Knowledge of container orchestration
• Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.)
• Good knowledge on application security
• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions

Qualifications:?
• Bachelors in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred)

Language(s):??
• English?
• French is a plus?

?Our Technology Stack:?
• Web framework: Rails 5
• Background task: Sidekiq
• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular
• API: Grape, Devise
• TDD: RSpec
• Search: Thinking Sphinx
• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible
• Fresh Ideas Always welcome!



Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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