Company Profile

Esoko is building Africa’s leading community management platform for the delivery of digital services to the rural areas in Africa. We have been a pioneer in the mobile for Agriculture space in Africa and are positioning ourselves to become the leading community platform for rural transactions. We see ourselves as building a kind of “CRM” for rural Africa.  We therefore require the services of an experienced technical person to lead and support the evolution of Esoko’s technology platform in pursuit of the company’s strategic direction.

We’re a highly motivated group of 30 based in Accra, Ghana.

The Esoko Product

Esoko has been helping enterprises manage rural communities since 2008. Traditionally focussed on content services to farmers, the platform now provides powerful data collection tools, biometric profiling, analytics, as well as communication services. The short to medium term goal of the company is to help our partners solve fundamental flaws linked to paper-based data collection systems. Our solution combines mobile 

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain APIs and tools that power Esoko's suit of applications.
• Communicate your designs to fellow engineers.
• Understand the data that power our applications and be able to propose appropriate data models for new features.
• Build new services from scratch, as well as maintain existing applications.
• Provide secure and seamless integration of Esoko's applications to our SaaS partners.
• Committed to good engineering practice of testing, logging, alerting and deployment processes.

Required Skills or Experience

• Expertise in any of the following languages (Nodejs, Java, python)
• Experience with developing scalable and secure APIs
• Strong knowledge of postgres db, mongodb and elastic search, rabbitmq
• Strong knowledge of microservice architecture
• Good knowledge of application monitoring
• Experience with Docker Ecosystem
• familiarity with techniques to identify slow queries and debugging
• Good knowledge of Linux platform
• 3+ Years of Development experience building backend solutions
• Experience building financial system is a plus
• Bachelor’s Degree