Department: Software
Position: Junior Developer Associate
Reporting to: DevOps Engineer
About SunCulture
Founded in 2012, SunCulture’s Vision is to build a world where people take control of their environment in rewarding and sustainable ways. SunCulture does this by developing and commercialising life changing technology that solves the biggest daily challenges for the world’s 570 million smallholder farming households. We are the largest distributor of solar water pumps / solar irrigation for smallholder farmers in Africa and were selected by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021. Here is a good explainer video recently made by CNBC. Over the last 5 years the company has grown significantly and now employs 400+ people around the world.
About the role
Reporting to the DevOps Engineer we seek a fast learning and dynamic Junior Developer Associate who will be working in our growing development team leveraging JavaScript and ReactJS. You will pick up a wide range of development tasks, both front and back end. We believe in growing you as an individual and we expect you to take on responsibilities with a can-do attitude.
Key Responsibilities
- Assisting the development team with all aspects of software design documentation and coding.
- Design work flow diagrams for various internal systems.
- Provide support to Quality Assurance activities.
- Attending and contributing to company development meetings.
- Gathering and incorporating feedback from users, leadership, and partner organizations
- Ability to present work to potential investors or grant managers externally
Does this sound like you?
- 1 year + of experience of delivering web based technologies
- Intermediate knowledge of Javascript and react JS
- Within the East African time zone by about 2 hrs on either side
- Proactive, collaborative, detail-oriented, organized, curious, problem solver with a “can-do” attitude
- Good presentation skills and the ability to gather feedback from leadership level staff
- Strong communication – Must have excellent verbal and written skills being able to communicate effectively on both a technical and business level
- Exposure to technical development tools e.g Slack, Jira, Github will be an added advantage.
- Good working knowledge of relational databases
- Not afraid to fail and get up again. When you fail you communicate early and with actionable context.
- Previous exposure to or preference of working in a fast paced agile environment.
Interested?
Please apply online via this job portal. We respond to all candidates; however only shortlisted candidates will be interviewed.
Please Note
SunCulture is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
