Closing date: Monday, 16 February 2015
Refugees United (REFUNITE) is looking for an outstanding backend developer with extensive experience in SMS and USSD development to join our team in Nairobi.
Who we are
REFUNITE builds technology to help separated refugee families reconnect. There are more than 52 million forcibly displaced people and REFUNITE is currently helping over 400,000 of them to find their lost loved ones. Working with our partners in distributed teams, we collect family data through Web, USSD and SMS.
REFUNITE currently has projects in Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Somalia, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We plan to initiate similar projects in other countries such as India and the Philippines.
Our teams are present in refugee camps and urban areas of East and North Africa, and often comprise of refugees as well. We work in challenging environments with challenging data, striving to crack a code of information dissemination to help families reconnect faster.
We focus on a big problem that we believe big data can help solve. We're not in it for the status quo. We help change the lives of some of the most resource-deprived people on our planet. We try to have fun, even when it's tough.
If this startup- dynamic, combined with a mission to empower refugees- sounds like your ideal place to thrive, get in touch.
Tasks
- Building applications.
- Contribute to engineering, support operational needs, including testing, tool building and bug fixing problems that are impacting our technical and support teams.
- Innovate on building highly scalable and responsive APIs
- Architect and implement backend services that will support our web and mobile clients.
- Maintain the existing codebase that powers our platform.
- Work closely with the rest of the team to bring our features into production.
Our ideal candidate
- Highly experienced in USSD & SMS development
- Experience in databases (MySQL, MongoDB, etc)
- Comfortable working across the full web stack
- Strong debugging skills
- Preference for Python but also skilled in PHP
- Experience in Python Frameworks such as Django and Flask
- Experience in PHP Frameworks such as Zend, Doctrine, FRAPI / Apiary
- Able to take complex problems and break them down to smaller tasks
We expect you to
- Be absolutely kick ass at what you do
- Be creative, curious and challenge us and yourself with new solutions and great ideas
- Be responsible and able to work independently as well as collaborate across the dev team (located in both Copenhagen and Nairobi) and organisation in a hectic startup environment
- Consider the terminal to be one of your best friends
Why you should join us
- To be part of an ambitious, skilled and agile team
- To have a great and fun work environment with highly enthusiastic colleagues
- To contribute to reconnecting refugees with their family and loved ones
How to apply
- Send your application to: job@refunite.org no later than February 16, 2015
- Include a link to your portfolio so we can see samples of your technical projects
- Mark your application with the title 'Backend Developer (SMS + USSD)'
- NOTE: If you are considered for this position, we'll send you a small pre-qualification technical exercise.
