Job Vacancies at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Associate Mobile Developer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering

Role Purpose

• Your primary focus will be the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Kotlin code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application
• Maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
• Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or other subject matter area with equivalent IT experience
• 1-3 years of professional experience in software development
• Proven Experience in Mobile Applications
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insight
• Two years experience as an Android Developer using Kotlin, Java and Android SDK
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• Solid understanding of the full mobile development life cycle.
• A natural knack for collaboratively crafting solutions with users and colleagues.
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• The ability to absorb information. You love getting into the weeds technically, but don’t let that distract you from achieving your end goals.
• You are a systems thinker and critical thinker, with experience solving problems at their root cause.
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Associate, DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting Line: This position reports to the Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering

Role Purpose

• Your primary focus will be the development of software applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure
• Design software operations code using python
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
• Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
• Design and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives

Requirements

• Proven Experience in Software Quality Assurance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or other subject-matter areas with equivalent IT experience
• 2 – 3 years of related experience
• Proven knowledge and hands-on experience of the modern technology stack
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights Other Requirements
• Demonstrated experience with workflow management systems; experience with Linux and networking, GCP – GoogleCloudPlatform, GraphQL, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes and CICD
• Advanced knowledge of python programming skills
• A natural knack for collaboratively crafting solutions with users and colleagues.
• A take-charge attitude where you can anticipate issues and ensure resolution to technical issues that come your way.
• The ability to absorb information. You love getting into the weeds technically, but don’t let that distract you from achieving your end goals.
• You are a systems thinker and critical thinker, with experience solving problems at their root cause.
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Associate, Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reports To: Head, Enterprise Systems Engineering.

Role Purpose

• Your primary focus will be the development of software applications and their integration with back-end services.
• You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. Therefore, commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and creating quality products is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain software applications
• Install, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software and system management tools
• Build security structures
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• Design server scripts and APIs
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• Gauge the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems; develop and implement strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems
• Create system design models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to system programmer and development teams
• Design and perform server and security audits, system backup procedures, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies
• Design and deploy new applications and enhancements to existing applications, software, and operating systems.
• Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed systems to aid management in making implementation decisions.
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure system-related products and services.
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers.
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Proven Experience in Software Quality Assurance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or other subject matter area with equivalent IT experience
• 0-2 years of professional experience in software development
• Proven knowledge and hands-on experience of modern technology stack
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript, HTML5,  CSS3 and code versioning tools, such as Git
• Knowledge of Node.js and any Node frameworks available and basic understanding of databases such as Mysql (No-sql databases such as Mongodb is a plus)
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• A natural knack for collaboratively crafting solutions with users and colleagues.
• Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• The ability to absorb information. You love getting into the weeds technically, but don’t let that distract you from achieving your end goals.
• You are a systems thinker and critical thinker, with experience solving problems at their root cause.
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online