Jobs at Andela

• Performing duties to design, building, and maintaining systems, environments, and pipelines
• Performing system orchestration through management tools, such as Cloudformation, Terraform, and Ansible
• Designing, building, and deploying using third-party testing and CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Travis, or CircleCI
• Contributing to developing and maintaining best practices for infrastructure as code, specifically with configuration management and environment orchestration
• Utilizing appropriate third-party tools to monitor, test, deploy, and scale environments
• Partnering with cross-functional team members to estimate, support, troubleshoot, plan, deliver, and maintain highly performant systems
• Supporting business functions by understanding key metrics and impact to know how to prioritize and support objectives
• Assisting in troubleshooting and resolving bugs as well as performance issues across all environments
• Developing dashboards and reports to support engineers, product, and business partners to successfully deliver on and support their initiatives

What Makes You a Great Fit For This Role

• 3+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• 2+ years of writing software, preferably in Python
• Excellent ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Experience in designing, building, and working with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines
• Proven expertise with at least one cloud hosting platform (ex: AWS, GCP, Azure) as well as its services, in relation to scaling, storage, management tools, and analytics
• Comfort with agile methodologies and experience in estimation and time management
• Hands-on experience with containerized infrastructure
• Understanding of programming concepts such as structured code, object-oriented and multi-tiered development experience, and design patterns
• Familiarity with distributed caching systems and core caching concepts
• Familiarity with serverless concepts
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field.

What You’ll Get*

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience, during which you’ve developed technical expertise and stellar professional skills.

Requirements

• Intermediate understanding of the core features of at least one backend language: Python, JavaScript/Node, PHP, Ruby
• Intermediate understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6+ features
• Working knowledge of at least one complementary front-end languages/frameworks (ex: React, Angular, Vue ) as well as experience with responsive design interface development
• Intermediate understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: Flask/Django for Python; Node/Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen/Laravel for PHP.
• Strong understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database, ORMs/ODMs and Web storage API (front end)
• Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Familiarity with at least one cloud hosting platform --(ex: AWS, GCP)
• Working knowledge of tools and editors-- (ex: Grunt, Sublime, Atom, JSLint)
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management

Preferred Skills

• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure and orchestration
• Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.

NOTE: All the experience listed above is the minimum requirement. For more information on requirements for the various levels of seniority, please view our engineer framework.

What You’ll Get*

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

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All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience

• A minimum of 3-7 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built technical expertise and professionalism.

Required

• Intermediate knowledge of at least one front-end framework -- React, Angular, Vue
• Working knowledge of at least one CSS framework -- Bootstrap, Materialize CSS, Semantic UI
• Intermediate understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6 features
• Working knowledge of unit and integration testing and testing frameworks/libraries -- Jest, Jasmine, Mocha
• Working knowledge of at least one task runner -- gulp, npm scripts
• Working knowledge of at least one module bundler -- webpack, parcel
• Working knowledge of at least one version control tool -- Git, Mercurial

Preferred

• Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Knowledge of code linting and formatting tools -- ESLint, Prettier
• Working knowledge of Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) architectural pattern.

What You’ll Get*

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

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Andela QA Engineers take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, You’ll

• Use your knowledge in QA to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as a role model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship, and universal respect.

Andela Engineers are masters of consistent execution. They reliably deliver technical and professional value to our teams and our partners.

Responsibilities Include

• Designing and creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Designing and performing manual and automated tests, as required
• Actively participating in scoping, planning, delivery, and release activities
• Utilizing required third party issue tracking systems, as required, to develop acceptance requirements, manage tests and issues, and report on progress and risks
• Using third party-tooling to build test cases (ex: Selenium), analyze performance metrics, simulate load/stress on environments, and progress code
• Analyzing specifications, business use cases, and critical metrics to understand system/user/revenue impact, devise criticality of issues, and suggest mitigation solutions
• Analyzing, document, and communicate defects, providing detailed replications, recommended approach, and expected impact
• Partnering and collaborating with cross-functional team members, including Product Management, Engineering, and Design, to estimate work, contribute to delivery, and maintain team standards and expectations

What Makes You a Great Fit For This Role

• 3+ years of professional experience in Quality Assurance or Software Test Engineering
• 2+ years of experience in automating functional test cases
• Hands-on coding experience, utilizing relevant testing frameworks
• Excellent ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Ability to perform full integration, end-to-end, load, and user acceptance testing
• Proven data analysis, data verification, and problem-solving abilities
• Hands-on automation design and scripting experience
• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines
• Experience with Appium, Selenium WebDriver, Postman, IDE’s or other common testing tools
• Strong experience with ticket tracking, release management, and development tools
• Familiarity with at least one cloud hosting platform --(ex: AWS, GCP)
• Comfort with agile methodologies and experience in estimation and time management
• Experience with containerized infrastructure, such as Docker
• Understanding of programming concepts such as structured code, object-oriented and multi-tiered development experience, and design patterns
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field.

What You’ll Get*

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

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Our Andelan Software Engineers are masters of consistent execution. They reliably deliver technical and professional value to our teams and our partners.

Specifically, You’ll

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Mentor and onboard junior engineers, by consistently displaying sound judgement, setting expectations, and working effectively, both independently and as part of a global team.
• Collaborate excellently with peers and stakeholders in fast-paced distributed teams, through a love of constructive feedback, dedication and universal respect.

Experience
What You’ll Bring

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built technical expertise and professionalism.

Languages/Frameworks

• Proficient at an intermediate level in either Java/Kotlin for Android and Objective-C/Swift for iOS.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Programming concepts i.e Classes and objects, Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism.
• Working knowledge of core data structures provided by a language, i.e arrays/lists, tuples, dictionaries, hash tables.
• Proficient at an intermediate level in mobile platform frameworks -- UIKit(iOS), MapKit, ARKit, RxJava, RxSwift
• Working knowledge of UI Design libraries/frameworks -- Material Design (Android)

Data Stores

• Intermediate level understanding of fundamental database concepts -- i.e database tables, querying databases, normalization, joins, database management systems
• Good understanding of at least one database for Mobile dev -- i.e SQLite, RealmDB
• Good understanding of cloud mobile database backends -- i.e Firebase
• Working knowledge of ORMs/ODMs -- i.e Room ORM, SqlDelight, CoreData

Testing/Security

• Knowledge of network security and deep knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, as well as testing frameworks/libraries -- JUnit(For Java), Espresso, Appium, XCTest(iOS)

Tools

• Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools-- Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Git, Mercurial
• Familiarity with language/platforms, build IDEs/tools -- Simulators/Emulators and Gradle(Android), Android Studio, XCode

DevOps

• Aware of at least one cloud mobile backend platform -- i.e Firebase, Fabric
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool -- i.e Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
• Working knowledge of the app stores for the respective mobile platforms -- i.e Google Play Store, Apple's App Store.
• Working Knowledge of analytics tools -- i.e HockeyApp/App Center,
• Working knowledge of networking concepts -- DNS, OSI model, TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, IP Addressing