Code Awesome, Save the World - Lead Software Engineer

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We're a Kenya-founded technology non-profit looking for a passionate, experienced, creative software engineer to lead dev teams and solve hard problems. 

You're Pretty Awesome

You have demonstrated experience designing and implementing complex software systems. You've led engineering teams and understand the full software development lifecycle. You're comfortable balancing and prioritizing requirements from multiple stakeholders. You take this stuff seriously, but you also have a legendary sense of humor and a PhD in Finding Just the Right Funny Gif for Every Moment. You might be comfortable with statistics (we do our fair share of data science), but nobody will judge you if you're not.

We're Pretty Awesome

Ushahidi is a non-profit technology company that builds open source platforms to help citizens, journalists, organizations, governments, and others gather, manage, analyze, and visualize crowdsourced data. Our tools have been used by tens of thousands of individuals and organizations fighting for social causes in over 159 countries — whether for monitoring corruption in Zimbabwe, gathering real-time data on local poverty issues, or giving people a voice in the Syrian crisis.Everyone at Ushahidi comes to work here because we know that every day people around the world use the tools we build to improve the lives of millions. In other words, in the fight for a better world, we aren’t 007, we’re Q.

This is the Best Job You'll Ever Have

As long as you have Internet access, live wherever you want. Ushahidi team members currently live all over the world: from Japan and New Zealand, to Nairobi and San Francisco.

We don’t care when you work. There are no “business hours” at Ushahidi, we are milestone based, not a sit-in-your-chair from 9 to 5 company.

Ushahidi attracts workaholics, so we all work hard to make sure everyone has a work-life balance.

Just Keep in Mind

We pay competitively at Ushahidi, however, keep in mind that we are a mission-driven non-profit. So, you know, the yacht will probably have to wait.

Ushahidi is growing (30+ employees) but we take on the goals of much larger organizations. In practice this means that all Ushahidiers end up wearing multiple hats and working on multiple projects. 

We all work remotely, and so will you, unless you happen to live in Nairobi (where about half the team is based).



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Ushahidi
Published at
03.09.2014
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Project ID:
769228
Contract type
Freelance
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100 % remote
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