Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT US

Since 1994, the firm has served farms and agricultural businesses across Dar es Salaam Region. Fridays in summer end at noon.

JOB SUMMARY

Looking for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Tanzania. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review. Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana. Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents. Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green. Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed. Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items. Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners. Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of professional software development experience. Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up. Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests. Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Medical cover. Pension contribution. Annual leave. Data and airtime allowance.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Dar es Salaam Advisors Enterprises.