Senior Full Stack Engineer

Kasha will disrupt the way that people in emerging markets get the health products they need by turning global health supply chains upside down. We are on our way to becoming Africa’s leading platform for last-mile access to health products and services used by enterprises, consumers, resellers, and health facilities. Kasha focuses on the lower-income mass market population, selling health and household goods and delivering those products to the last mile through our Kasha Agents and logistics networks. Customers can order using an omnichannel mobile platform that is built to be highly accessible around the country, reaching even typically offline customers via our digital channels. Kasha also works with manufacturers and global health organizations, operating as a service channel for visibility on distribution, performance data, consumer insights, and last-mile access. Kasha was founded in July 2016 in Rwanda, and operates in East, South, Central, and West Africa. You can learn more about us at Kasha Global Inc.

Build scalable APIs, data processing pipelines, and integrations. Support existing services, websites and CMS. Develop user-facing interfaces using modern frameworks like React, Angular, or in pure HTML/ JS. This role can be based in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and/or Egypt.

Responsibilities

• • Maintaining the python USSD repository that manages the USSD ordering systems for both RW & KE (*911#, *308#), USSD customer lists, and the agents onboarding.
  • Write and maintain the MS Dynamics extensions (for integrations with 3rd parties and Kasha-specific customizations
  • Maintain the front-end components of Kasha websites and CMS.
  • Maintain and further develop Kasha Care App (form mobile phones)
  • Coordinate with the PM team to assess the feasibility of features and plan their implementation.
  • Maintain the module (written in Python) for mass-market agent commission calculation.
  • Maintain the SMS service (written in PHP).
  • Coordinate with other team members to share specialized knowledge about one’s own specialization and learn about the other team member’s specializations.
  • Get familiar with the MS Dynamics UI, in order to be able to understand and evaluate business requests for new features or improvements.

• Proficiency in the following: Python; SQL; AWS: RDS, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda; Rabbit MQ; Redis; MongoDB; MS Dynamics API, PHP, JS, HTML5, CSS
• 5+ years of experience.
• BSc in computer science or AWS Certified Developer (.
• Great written and verbal communication skills (our team is operating globally)
• Openness to learning new systems and programming languages (first and foremost MS Dynamics 365 Business Central and AL)
• The ability to organize one’s own time, because we are not physically working in the same location (or even time zone), and document the work in our chosen task-tracker

Originally posted on Himalayas