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 sustainable ways. SunCulture does this
by developing and commercializing life-changing technology that solves the
biggest daily challenges for the world’s 570 million smallholder farming
households. Over the last 5 years, the company has grown significantly and
now employs 100+ 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
Qualifications
- 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.
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.
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