Role Profile:

Kyosk is looking for a passionate Software Engineer (InfraOps) to help strengthen the development competency of a team of software engineers who are developing solutions on the leading edge of innovation in Africa. The successful candidate will play a supporting role in the full SDLC of the team's output.  

As a Software Engineer (InfraOps), you’ll join our growing team of Product and Technology professionals who share a passion for leveraging technology to empower informal retailers across the African continent. You’ll work with teams from multiple countries across the organization to imagine and build innovative solutions for Kyosk’s customers and internal teams.

To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about using technology to solve real world problems. You will contribute to high quality, resilient, scalable software using industry best practices.

Key Responsibilities

●        Contribute to the design of technical solutions

●        Deliver working software implemented from technical designs

●        Investigate and resolve errors

●        Adhere to Kyosk's development processes

Minimum Technical Requirements:

●        3 years of software development experience

●        Experience working with Agile methodologies

●        Experience with administrative tools, e.g. Issue Tracking, Wikis, etc

●        Working knowledge of dev tool chain (e.g. IDE, CI/CD, version control)

●        Backend dev: Working knowledge of Java, SpringBoot, Document Database or RDBMS.

●        Frontend dev: Working knowledge of Angular

●        Experience working in Cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure)

●        Experience in deploying and running applications in Kubernetes

●        Experience implementing components of a system from technical designs/specifications

Minimum Behavioural and Soft Skills Requirements:

●        Strong work ethic

●        Focus on delivery

●        Punctual

●        Works mostly independently

●        Passion for learning

●        Considerate of value chain outside of sphere of responsibility

Desired Technical Competencies

●        1 years experience of the full SDLC (analysis, design, development, testing, integration, deployment, documentation, triage)

●        Sound knowledge of the microservices design pattern

●        Basic knowledge of any cloud platform

●        Experience implementing basic unit tests

●        Basic knowledge of Kafka

●        Frontend dev: working knowledge of NestJS and React

●        Experience in e-commerce, payments, and/or distribution of FMCG products

●        Experience using GCP

●        Working knowledge of Docker containers and Kubernetes for orchestration

●        Basic knowledge of the shift-left approach

●        Experience implementing unit tests

●        Working knowledge of system non-functional requirements (e.g. code readability, maintainability, scalability, extensibility, testability, etc)

Desired Behavioral Competencies

●        Ability to give reasonably accurate time estimates

●        Constantly seeks to improve tech and processes to streamline development

●        Ability to work under pressure, with tight timelines and ambitious deadlines

●        You have integrity: you do what you say you will do and make no excuses.

●        Promote psychological safety in the team, as well as across the entire organisation.

About Kyosk Digital Services Limited

Kyosk is a tech-led company that connects informal retailers and other similar outlets directly to fast-moving consumer goods companies (FMCGs) by communicating demand from retail outlets directly to FMCGs and their distributors and managing the delivery of the goods to the retailers.

Our digital-first platform ensures that retail outlets get access to stock at competitive prices and have them delivered directly to them. FMCGs find the traditional distribution chain to be inadequate as well, making it expensive for them to serve kiosk-type retail outlets, leading to high incidences of product stock-outs and lost sales opportunities. By providing FMCGs with good data visibility, we solve this major problem of theirs.

Kyosk also applies technology to bring financial inclusion to millions of informal retailers and consumers across Africa. By developing and leveraging fintech innovations, we constantly improve how we collect and reconcile payments for goods, driving towards 100% digitized payments.