Senior Software Engineer
Brief Description
We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building custom mission-critical enterprise systems that will enable us to manage a network of hundreds and eventually thousands of schools.
Bridge International Academies is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model.
The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of
ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa.
Our schools profitably deliver highquality education for less
than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their
school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at
the central level.
We now have 84 schools in Kenya, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.
We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated operational approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world!
Our success relies on our “School in a Box”, a sophisticated set
of custom developed systems, tools and processes (think McDonalds or Starbucks)
that are used by all School Managers, as well as by support teams at
Headquarters to audit, monitor and support all of our schools.
While the end-user (School Manager) technology at the school is
limited to paper and a mobile phone, all of our systems and processes are
underpinned by a sophisticated set of supporting and enabling technologies that
allows schools to operate cost effectively and efficiently, with oversight by
headquarters.
We are looking for a full time Senior Software Engineer with responsibilities of:
- Leading
the development of custom enterprise software to power and improve the
efficiency of our rigorous processes at both our schools and headquarters
- Architecture,
designing, implementation and debugging
- Integration
of our custom systems with off the shelf software
- Database
design and optimization
- Requirements
analysis and user interface design
- Supporting
in-house users of our custom software and problem solving
About You
- You
have BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field
- You
are an exceptionally talented coder with knowledge of multiple programming
languages and frameworks
- You
have a minimum of 5 years experience developing custom-built software to
enable internal business processes.
- You
have experience integrating off-the-shelf and custom-built technologies
- You
have developed and supported systems that are critical to the day to day
operations of medium and large organizations (ERP, financial systems,
CRM…)
- You
have designed and supported large databases and are skilled at writing SQL
- You
have experience taking software projects through the entire software
lifecycle (requirements analysis, design, implementation, deployment, post
deployment support)
- You
work well as part of a team and like to both teach and learn from others
- You
are familiar with professional software development practices such as
source code control, defect tracking, unit testing and code reviews
- You
love to write code and solve challenging problems
- You
function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change
is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
- You
are in expert in two or more of the following technologies:
C#/.NET development
MS SQL Server
PHP/MySQL web development
SugarCRM
Android development
MS SQL Server
PHP/MySQL web development
SugarCRM
Android development
Location
The job is based in our headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
Examples of our Software Needs
The following are examples some of the software projects that are currently under development or consideration:
- Automated
Student Payment Information System - manages billing, automatically updates
database with data from banks and mobile payment systems, provides tools
for operator to correct and assign payments, and uses SMS interface to
send coded updates to Schools, and receive interactive SMS queries and
remote error correction.
- Customized
integrated financial system - taking customizable financial package and
integrating with payment information system, reporting tools, and
developing additional tools for automated budget tracking, and SMS-based
payment requests and school payroll.
- Data
Management and Dashboard/Reporting Tools for HQ staff to support schools -
we are developing tools that collect key performance data and provide
dashboards/reports to allow support teams to monitor progress of our
schools.
- Android
Mobile Phone App - We are porting of many of our paper-based processes at
our schools to a mobile phone app on the Android platform to streamline
school operations.
In order to be considered for this position all candidates must
register and upload their CV’s on our website at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted