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

We're looking for enthusiastic and resourceful software engineers who are passionate about building great products, someone who loves being part of a team and thinks customer experience.

About the job

• Work in an agile cross-functional team with other frontend engineers, backend engineers, and product designers.
• Plan, build, test, and release new features and experiments in Javascript and React.
• Develop and improve our Data Collection Platform and Analytics Platform
• Mentor other team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance.
• Collaborate with engineers across the department to identify and build on improvements to our processes and systems.

Required Skills or Experience

Most important:

• 3+ years of experience in software development
• Experience with React and Redux
• Experience with Sass, Less and/or CSS Modules
• Experience with Webpack
• Ability to build and improve a REST/JSON API client
• Ability to debug API responses
• Write high-performance, reusable code for UI components
• Experience with type checking solutions (e.g. Flow, TypeScript)
• Experience with testing frameworks
• Must be a master of reactjs, react-redux, typescript, javascript, webpack