Who we are?
Motorcycle taxis are immensely popular and serve as the lifeblood of many
cities in Africa, but they are extremely unsafe and disorganized. At the
click of a button, SafeBoda provides a safe, more convenient, mobile-first
transportation platform for Africa’s booming young population. Based in
Kampala & Nairobi, we are a Series-A funded fast growing ride-hailing
platform that is having huge impact for millions in East Africa.
In 2016, we launched our platform on Heroku with a MongoDB, PHP backend
with front ends on web, iOS, and Android. In 2018, our daily ride numbers
increased 30x. We are now in the process of raising Series B financing and
are going to use it to modernize the engineering platform and upgrade our
backend technology operations.
We have a passionate and highly engaged team based mainly in East Africa
and we are looking to quickly grow the Barcelona team to speed-up the
growth and make sure we can build exciting verticals on the SafeBoda
platform. We're searching for engineers who are looking for the opportunity
to work for an international company, as well as the challenge of being an
early member of our Barcelona team.
Our stack
We are currently migrating our legacy back-end application from PHP to
Elixir and breaking the monolith into Elixir umbrella apps. We use Postgres
as our main database but use MongoDb for some parts of the application. We
cache heavily with Redis. Our web applications are built with Angular but
we're slowly moving to Vue.Js. Kotlin and Swift are the language of choice
for our Android and iOS apps respectively.
What you will do
Own your work: lead projects from concept to completion. You’re in control
of your own success.
Build & improve code for new and existing products Practice and encourage software engineering best practices: reasonable test
coverage, appropriate modularization, designing cohesive interfaces, and
making the call on technical trade-offs.
Collaborate in technical reviews to strengthen our architecture and system
designs.
Main requirements
3+ years experience in software development Degree in Computer Science or related field Deep understanding of Android SDK, Java/Kotlin and location-based services Shipped one or more Android applications to the Google Play store Demonstrated experience producing structured, readable and testable code Knowledge of current trends in software design, architecture and web
services (especially REST)
An attitude of accountability and knowledge-sharing—you enjoy reviewing
others' code and sharing your knowledge
Demonstrated ability to work independently Excellent communication skills - you can spar with engineers, product
owners and other stakeholders
English language fluency
Nice to have
Experience with Kotlin Knowledge of Reactive Extentions (Rx) Experience with MVVM architecture
Perks
Be part of a passionate team that is changing the mobility landscape in
Africa.
Opportunity to travel to East Africa and interact with the product and our
multi-cultural team.
We believe that distance is not a barrier to build a great company culture we replicate our last Friday of the months drinks at our different
offices and can't wait to have our first inter-continent ping-pong
tournament.
