Zeepo Limited
Zeepo is a consumer finance integrator. We
aim to demolish the barriers to financial inclusion and protection by
revolutionizing the way Africans buy, consume and interact with financial
services.
To achieve this, we have built KAVA - a
financial services supermarket that will enable consumers to access all their
financial transactions in ONE place, offline and online.
Lead Developer
1 Position
Reporting to: Strategy
Director
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Overall Job Purpose: To execute the
technology development plans and projects in conjunction with the Project
Management team to ensure project completion on spec, on time and on budget.
Responsibilities
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Analysing
user requirements, researching, designing and developing new modules.
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Work
on a wide range of projects involving the implementation of new and existing
systems, solutions and processes.
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Prepare
and install solutions by determining and designing system specifications,
standards, and programming.
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Determine
operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition,
requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
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Work
closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination
across operations as part of the seamless implementation of existing and new
systems.
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Build
and manage a team of mid-level and junior level developers to form the
Development Team. This includes App Developers, Database Administrators, etc.
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Document
and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts,
diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
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Ensure
Data Management including data security, accessibility, and data flow from one
system to another.
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Code
documentation; System and network security; User management and administration;
Application programming interfaces (API); Programming.
Requirements
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Minimum
of three (3) years working experience as a Developer.
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Bachelor’s
degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or
related field.
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Ability
to understand strategy and operations/business.
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Good
knowledge of software and programming languages with ability to use
professionally at least three or more development language (JAVA, HTML5,
Python, PHP)Primary language being JAVA, Knowledge on or C# (is an added
advantage).
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Experience
and knowledge in software development lifecycle, IT Project management
experience.
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Experience
in the development new modules using c#, .Net, SQL Server technologies Android,
and IOS.
Position: Data Scientist
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
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Create value-adding analytic systems,
toolsets and processes that support user acquisition, user engagement, usage
growth and retention.
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Work in a multi-disciplined team
where you’ll take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine
learning models.
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Our ideal candidate is
result-focused, innovative and has solid quantitative background and a good
business understanding.
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Ability to transform large, complex
datasets into pragmatic, actionable insights and in turn quantify and influence
tangible business gain.
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Ability to see beyond the numbers, be
the voice of data when communicating to decision makers, product owners and
other business leaders.
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Create insightful data visualizations
that highlight trends.
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Preparing periodic, continuous and ad
hoc reports clearly showing business trends and customer behavior.
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Monitor product lifecycle and
highlight early signs of product use change.
Requirements
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Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics,
Actuarial Science, Computer Science or Economics. Must show experience in data
analysis.
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2 years working experience in a
reporting / data analysis role(s) and environments.
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Experience in using SQL based data
mining and analysis required.
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Result-focused, innovative and has
solid quantitative background and a good business understanding.
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Experience with common data science
toolkits
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A good scripter able to use analysis
tools creatively to programmatically answer complex business questions in a
data driven approach at relative speed.
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Good applied statistics skills and
experience, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
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Demonstrate that he/she has a good
understanding of data cleaning and transformation techniques.
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Entrepreneurial, Positive,
people-oriented, and energetic attitude.
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Ability to work under pressure with
minimal supervision and meet assignment deadlines through personal initiatives
on several simultaneously assigned tasks.
How
to Apply
If you meet this qualifications and would like to join our team of
professionals, kindly send your CV to recruit@kava.africa indicating
the job title as the subject of your email before the end of day 15th December
2017.