Senior Software Engineer

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. Pwani Computer Services is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. You can work from home anywhere in Kenya. We have no office requirement. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Your responsibilities

• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.

Skills and experience

• 5-7 years of professional software development experience.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and explain decisions to non-engineers.

Preferred qualifications

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.

What we offer

• Medical cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Annual leave.
• 13th month salary.

About us

Started by a former school district network admin in 2018, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules.

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Pwani Computer Services.