Start date: July 2025
Duration: 3 Months, Full-time
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Type of Employment: Internship
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We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls
and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of
inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best
each day. Does this sound like you? Learn more about our cultural attributes.
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Software engineers (SWEs) work with teammates to solve
problems and build innovative software solutions. You are passionate about
customers and product quality, and you provide technical guidance to Technical
Program Managers and Product Managers they consider user needs and product
requirements. You will also be expected to demonstrate an ability to learn and
adopt relevant new technologies, tools, methods and processes to leverage in
your solutions. As a SWE, you are dedicated to design, development and testing
of next-generation software which will empower every person and organization on
the planet to achieve more.
Responsibilities
- Applies
engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and
creative engineering.
- Quickly
learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.
- Seeks
feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve
technical solutions.
- Demonstrates
skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative
team environment.
Qualifications
Required qualifications
- Be
enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer
science or related field.
- Must
have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining
following the completion of the student worker program.
- Fluency
in English.
- You
must be legally authorised to work in Kenya to be eligible for this role.
(Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or
work permit)
Preferred Qualifications
- Be
passionate about quality, performance, and reliability.
- Experience
and interest in working with backend containerized microservices (ex:
Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Have
solid problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge,
experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as
C#, Python.
- Good
interpersonal oral and written communications skills
- Experience
delivering results through collaboration across disciplines, feature
teams, and partners
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applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or
medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information,
immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin,
physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or
military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual
orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws,
regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable
accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more
about requesting accommodations.