Team Lead - Software Engineering at Babban Gona

Babban Gona - Revolutionizing agriculture. With a vision to make 1 million smallholder farmer members more money by 2025, the Babban Gona agriculture franchise overcomes a key underlying structural problem that keeps them poor – low economies of scale. Nigerian based agricultural franchise utilizing a sustainable private sector model to provide cost-effective end-to-end services to a network of franchised farmer groups. They believe that everyone deserves a secure future, and to secure this future, we must END insecurity. They believe that to end insecurity, we must make smallholder farmer members more money.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Team Lead - Software Engineering

Location: Nigeria

About the Role
As a Team Lead- Software Engineering you will:

• You will be developing robust mobile and web applications.
• You will work alongside other members of Babban Gona’s Product Development team and own technical delivery of projects.
• You will be primarily aimed at Android development.
• You will be also doing light web development and scripting.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages a small team of developers to launch end-to-end products.
• Plans, designs, develops, tests, and maintains enterprise-level desktop-, web- and mobilebased applications.
• Designs solutions attending to both business and technical considerations  Analyses user requirements, envisions system features and functionality.
• Collaborates with product managers, team leads and other software developers.
• Works closely with end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Works on bug fixes and improving application performance.
• Participates in the evolution of company level best practices, standards, and policies

Job Requirements
Does this sound like you?

Must Haves:

• You have 4+ years of experience in Software Development or an equivalent of education and experience .
• You have basic knowledge of software development life cycle (analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and execution models (Agile, Iterative Development, etc.)
• You have the ability to develop Android apps using any framework desired.
• You have understanding of databases, with proficiency in SQL.
• You have the ability to build Microsoft Access data applications while using VBA and Macros.
• You have familiarity with build tools.
• You have mobile UI design experience
• You have basic understanding of data analysis in Excel
• You have unit test and debugging skills

Nice to have:

• You have Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering or any other related field
• You have understanding of code versioning tools (Git).
• You are fluent in English

Fitment:

• You have a selfless desire to help
• You are driven to solve the problems of the farming community
• You can adapt to ever-changing processes

What’s on Offer?

• A competative salary and benifits is on offer which is negotiable.
• We will offer relocation assistance; happy to pay for a few extra bags on the plane. 
• We are open to considering your buy-out; we know notice periods are long.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online