Company Overview

Avenews provides fast and reliable financing solutions for Kenyan agribusinesses poised for growth, serving as a trusted partner to fuel expansion.

Job Role Context

We're looking for a passionate Senior Fullstack Developer with 5+ years of experience who thrives on building robust, scalable applications and genuinely loves what they do. You'll be part of a senior development team working in an agile environment (2-week sprints), focusing on scaling our existing web and mobile applications while maintaining legacy code. This is a role for someone who wants to continuously learn and grow.

Responsibilities

• Frontend Requirements
• Angular 10+ with strong preference for Angular 13+ experience
• Experience with both standalone components and NgModules
• Ionic 8 for mobile development (minimum basic proficiency required)
• Working knowledge of NX monorepo (strong plus, but not required)
• Figma collaboration and working with UI component libraries
• Deep understanding of component architecture and design systems
• Pixel-perfect implementation with attention to UI/UX details
• Responsive Mobile-first UI
• Backend Requirements
• NestJS framework expertise
• Strong MongoDB skills including complex aggregation pipelines and query optimization
• SQL database experience
• Building and maintaining integrations with financial APIs and third-party services
• Roles & permissions systems implementation
• JWT authentication and security best practices
• Docker
• Writing efficient, clean, optimized code
• Unit testing and maintaining code quality
• Cloud & DevOps
• AWS experience is essential, particularly:
• AWS Lambda
• ECS (Elastic Container Service)
• Other core AWS services
• Understanding of cloud architecture and best practices

Qualifications

• System design thinking - ability to plan and architect features end-to-end
• Strong code review skills and self-QA discipline before creating pull requests
• Ownership mentality and attention to detail
• Someone who takes pride in writing maintainable, well-structured code
• Passion for fullstack development and genuine desire to learn and grow
• Comfortable working with legacy code
• Team player who thrives in an agile environment
• Flexibility - being able to work on multiple different projects and technologies

• Frontend Requirements
• Angular 10+ with strong preference for Angular 13+ experience
• Experience with both standalone components and NgModules
• Ionic 8 for mobile development (minimum basic proficiency required)
• Working knowledge of NX monorepo (strong plus, but not required)
• Figma collaboration and working with UI component libraries
• Deep understanding of component architecture and design systems
• Pixel-perfect implementation with attention to UI/UX details
• Responsive Mobile-first UI
• Backend Requirements
• NestJS framework expertise
• Strong MongoDB skills including complex aggregation pipelines and query optimization
• SQL database experience
• Building and maintaining integrations with financial APIs and third-party services
• Roles & permissions systems implementation
• JWT authentication and security best practices
• Docker
• Writing efficient, clean, optimized code
• Unit testing and maintaining code quality
• Cloud & DevOps
• AWS experience is essential, particularly:
• AWS Lambda
• ECS (Elastic Container Service)
• Other core AWS services
• Understanding of cloud architecture and best practices

• Angular 10+
• Angular 13+
• Standalone components
• NgModules
• Ionic 8
• NX monorepo
• Figma
• UI component libraries
• Component architecture
• Design systems
• NestJS
• MongoDB
• SQL
• Financial APIs
• Third-party services integrations
• Roles & permissions systems
• JWT authentication
• Docker
• Unit testing
• AWS
• AWS Lambda
• ECS
• Cloud architecture
• System design thinking
• Code review
• Agile environment

• System design thinking - ability to plan and architect features end-to-end
• Strong code review skills and self-QA discipline before creating pull requests
• Ownership mentality and attention to detail
• Someone who takes pride in writing maintainable, well-structured code
• Passion for fullstack development and genuine desire to learn and grow
• Comfortable working with legacy code
• Team player who thrives in an agile environment
• Flexibility - being able to work on multiple different projects and technologies