Jobs at Untapped Global
Jobs at Untapped Global
Deadline of these Jobs: 06 December 2022
Untapped Global is an investment and technology company based in the US, with offices and representatives in Kenya and South Africa. Its mission is to bridge the investment gap in emerging markets, by radically changing the risk profile of debt investment in these countries for everyday investors.

Back-end Developer

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Building and maintaining web applications
  • Assessing the efficiency and speed of current applications
  • Writing high-quality code and adhering to our Software Development principles
  • Performing code reviews
  • Troubleshooting and debugging
  • Keeping on top of new technologies
  • Contributing to discussion on product and code architecture

Technical Skill Set:

  • Proficiency in Python 3, Async.io, including Django, the Django-rest framework, FastAPI, and Flask
  • Must have knowledge of SDLC
  • Knowledge of scaling applications to handle the load changes and a large amount of data traffic
  • Knowledge of accessibility and security compliances
  • Knowledge of version control such as Git and GitHub
  • Knowledge of common testing frameworks(Linear Scripting, Data-Driven, Keyword-Driven, Table-Driven, etc.)
  • Knowledge of deploying and hosting on cloud solutions via AWS
  • Good knowledge of user data security best practices
  • Knowledge how to avoid race conditions is a plus

What you will bring to Untapped:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years’ experience as a back-end or full-stack developer building web applications
  • Experience leading and managing teams of developers
  • Maturity,self-awareness, empathy, a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
  • Proven experience in the following areas:
    • Deploying and working with databases- Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
    • Designing core, back-end software components
    • Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
    • Microservices architecture
    • Writing tests
    • Working using asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers(Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
    • Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
  • It’s a plus if you have:
    • Experience with Kubernetes and resource management
    • HTML and JavaScript experience
    • Experience working in the consumer privacy, consumer data, or financial industries

Back-end Developer Intern

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Building and maintaining web applications
  • Writing high-quality code
  • QA testing
  • Troubleshooting and debugging
  • Keeping on top of new technologies
  • Contributing to discussion on product and code architecture

Technical Skill Set:

  • Knowledge on any of the following python frameworks: FastAPI, Django (including Django-rest framework) and Flask
  • Knowledge of scaling applications to handle the load changes that are a large amount of data traffic
  • Knowledge of accessibility and security compliances
  • Knowledge of version control such as Git and GitHub
  • Good communication skills
  • Knowledge of deploying and hosting is a plus
  • Knowledge on any of the following: AWS, Heroku, Google Cloud Platform is a plus. These all are cloud-hosting markets. Heroku is a container-based cloud platform service (PaaS) and AWS is a cloud platform that provides IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS, and SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • Knowledge of user data security best practices is a plus

What you will bring to Untapped:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent work experience
  • 1+ years’ experience as a back-end or full-stack engineer building web applications
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals and software design principles
  • Maturity,self-awareness, empathy, a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and a positive attitude
  • Experience in the following areas:
    • Writing tests
    • Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
    • In at least one with databases – Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
    • Designing core, backend software components
    • Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
  • It’s a plus if you have:
    • Working using asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers(Celery / RabbitMQ / Redis)
    • Experience with Kubernetes, microservices, and resource management
    • HTML and Javascript experience
    • Experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, React, HTMX
      and automation tools
  • Strong motivation to learn new skills and best practices to get to the top 3% back-end
    developers

DevOps Engineer

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Build, operate, and support highly available, fault tolerant, observable, performant, secure, and scalable platform tools and systems in a microservice environment that enable the Untapped engineering team to build best-in-class products
  • Develop and maintain solutions which automate the configuration, provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of all of our systems
  • Ensure high availability and acceptable levels of performance for our applications
  • Work closely with QA and software developers to automate workflows, release high quality and well-tested software, and troubleshoot production issues
  • Supervise Untapped cloud infrastructure (AWS)
  • Own the implementation of CI/CD tooling and best practices
  • Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on observability and monitoring of distributed systems

What you will bring to Untapped:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS) or related discipline – equivalent industry experience and demonstrable knowledge may be used to replace this requirement
  • 3+ years managing the deployment and environment strategy around distributed, scalable microservices software products
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services
  • Experience with containerization tools like Kubernetes, Fargate, Docker, etc.
  • Experience doing command-line troubleshooting and scripting on Linux
  • Proficiency with GitHub and GitOps
  • Proficiency in Python or JavaScript
  • A strong understanding of networking concepts (virtual networking, subnets, routing, load balancing, DNS, etc.), networking security and Infrastructure as Code
  • A strong understanding of the Agile software development cycle
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills
  • Experience being a part of a multicultural, distributed team, ideally with some experience in Africa
  • A passion for innovation and creative problem solving, and a strong curiosity to learn new things and to experiment
  • A can-do attitude and the flexibility required to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Job Info
Job Category: Several Jobs in one Advert jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 06 December 2022
Duty Station: several locations
Posted: 22-11-2022
No of Jobs: 3
Start Publishing: 22-11-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 22-11-2066
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