Software Developer

Who we are:

From an office in Nairobi, Hemlockward Wealth Management runs payment processing for property managers and HOAs. Dress is business casual, and suits come out for client meetings.

Hemlockward Wealth Management is looking for a Software Developer to join a small, steady team. 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 Kenya. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it

About you:

• 3+ 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
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design

Pay and benefits:

Pay: KES 140,000-KES 185,000 a month

• Medical cover
• Pension contribution
• Annual leave
• Data and airtime allowance
• 13th month salary

Candidates must be eligible to work in Kenya.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Hemlockward Wealth Management.