Vacancy title:
Software Engineer L3 (Rails)

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Waste management, Category: Computer & IT]

Jobs at:
Engie Group

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, July 18 2025

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi | Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 10 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Responsibilities  

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.  
• Own initiative and complete it from start to finish, provide guidance to other engineers and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies in the software with no supervision.  
• Represent technical team in business conversations in a range of scopes and work closely with stakeholders to deliver solutions which fit the needs of the business and provide fairly accurate effort estimates and risk assessment  
• Participate in Peer-Review, identify and document technical debt and contribute to delivering high quality software solutions  
• Participate and strongly contribute to architectural discussion on important areas of software that impact performance and reliability of our software. Identify and communicate risk in approaches or implementation details, technical debt, assumptions, etc.  
• Contribute to change of processes, adoption of best industry practices and mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance  
• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 5 years of practical experience in software engineering of which at least 2 years in senior or lead role  
• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks  
• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD  
• Strong knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns   
• Experience creating and maintaining scalable web applications with high availability, observability and structured logging  
• API design to scale in Ruby  
• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns  
• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring  
• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)  
• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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