About the role

Full-Stack Software Engineer shipping user-facing features for an educational technology company serving students globally. Aiming to empower children through foundational literacy and numeracy.

Responsibilities

Ship product features end-to-end: plan, analyse, document, code, review, test, and release high-quality code.
Keep quality high by writing readable, maintainable code, adding meaningful tests, monitoring in production, hunting down tricky issues and driving them to resolution.
Share what you learn by pairing with teammates, contributing clear docs, and raising the bar through thoughtful reviews and feedback.
Continue developing your skills with support from the team, and explore new responsibilities at your own pace, all into helping create meaningful impact for our users.
Take a proactive role in integrating AI tools into our workflows: whether it's using LLMs to augment coding, debugging, or documentation; or building small AI-enhanced tools for internal use.
We’re a small team with a big mission — which means efficiency and leverage matter immensely.

The desire to use your skills to bring about positive social change.
At least three (3) years of experience writing code.
Experience designing system architectures is a plus, but not required.
A proven record of developing production-grade software in a team.
Full-stack experience is a plus.
A passion for writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
A desire to apply AI tools creatively to make your own work — and your teammates’ — more efficient.
Excellent collaboration skills and a willingness to learn new tech or dive into unfamiliar systems.
We speak and operate in English - knowledge of German is not required.

A supportive, international team based in Kenya, Nigeria, and Germany, united by a mission and commitment to learning.
An engineering culture grounded in craftsmanship, trust, and autonomy.
Meaningful technical challenges: from scaling across low-end devices and unreliable connectivity to designing resilient, self-healing systems.
A modern, evolving stack: Tooling: Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions Backend: AWS, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, microservices Frontend: React, TypeScript, Android, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
Openness to exploring and proposing new tools — whether open-source, cloud-native, or AI-powered.
Three creative hackathon weeks per year, where you can explore bold new directions.
A healthy work-life balance with flexible hours, an async-friendly culture that respects personal time and autonomy, and a hybrid setup (in-office once a week or more).
We also support reduced working hours if requested (e.g. 32 rather than 40 hours per week).
Transparent and fair salary bands — we believe everyone should be paid equitably, without needing to negotiate.
A truly generous equity scheme.
The chance to see your work in action through field visits to classrooms abroad.
A rare opportunity to combine deep technical work with real-world global impact.