Job description

About the Role:

Fraym is looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with a knack for quality design and usability and an interest in geospatial data to join their product development team.

Roles and Responisbilities:

• Evaluate internal and customer priorities to develop software-based solutions.
• Communicate with current and prospective users and stakeholders to understand evolving needs and customer concerns.
• Translate analytical outputs and data into relatable and actionable software and user interfaces.
• Contribute to building the roadmap of the product: GitHub issue creation, epic/sprint evaluation, backlog grooming, etc.
• Write maintainable code and offer PR reviews.
• Write unit and smoke tests for all portions of their applications.
• Identify usability issues and suggest improvements.
• Monitor and improve internal systems and practices related to code workflow and peer review.
• Create markdown documents to help new engineers and developers get started with their tools and projects.
• Explore and build new product and data delivery tools and mechanisms to integrate into customer systems and workflows.
• Mentor team members on software engineering best practices.
• Support Go-to-Market and Project teams as required.
• Identify and automate software deployment processes.

Does this sound like you?

Must-haves:

• Experience working in a remote setting and across multiple time-zones – the Fraym team is internationally distributed.
• Fast learner, i.e.: you routinely pick up new languages or leverage frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate with external consultants.
• At least 8 years of experience building web-based software products.
• Self-motivated and independent but comfortable working with a diverse team.
• Persistent and with a desire to solve both technical problems and learn deep business concepts.
• Good understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Good understanding of data structures and geospatial concepts.
• Experience working with GIS technologies, e.g.: Mapbox GL JS, Carto, PostGIS, etc.
• Experience with CSS frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation.
• At least 5 years of working experience with mainstream frameworks such as Django, Spring MVC, or Ruby on Rails.
• Comfortable working with datasets stored within RDBMS and spreadsheets.
• At least 5 years of experience building UIs based on Angular 4 (and/or higher) or React.

Nice to haves:

• Interested in African and emerging market development work;
• Experience working in or with young, early-stage companies.