Software Engineer, Data Visualization
Engineering | Nairobi, Kenya | Full Time
Join the A.I. company tackling some of the most consequential problems facing the world today. Gro Intelligence is a fast-growing, mission-driven data and analytics company dedicated to understanding the interconnected global markets for all agricultural products. From the food we eat to the clothing we wear and the gasoline in millions of cars across the globe, agriculture touches our daily existence like few other industries. And it’s being completely upended by climate change, trade wars, finite global resources, fickle public policies, a growing population and ever-changing human tastes (e.g. organic produce, plant-based proteins, etc). Come help us understand the complex interplay of these various forces and their ripple effect on global markets.
With offices in both New York and Nairobi, and the financial backing of prominent investors including TPG Growth and Data Collective, Gro is a diverse team of more than 70 technologists, scientists, and business professionals. Our team is growing rapidly and we’re looking for highly motivated, intellectually curious individuals with a shared commitment to building software that impacts the world on the most basic level.
Gro has been featured prominently alongside the company’s founder and CEO in several recent outlets including Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Fast Company’s Most Creative People, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, and Vanity Fair’s Inside the Hive with Nick Bilton.
What You’ll Do:
Develop a highly interactive, responsive front-end UI with dynamic data visualization
Bridge the gap between UX/Interaction Designer and back-end application development team, working closely with each to develop UX flows and interactions and integrating them seamlessly and accurately with back-end application data
Work with Back-end Application Developers to develop appropriate web services to support the front end UI
Work with UX/Interaction Designer and Product Designers to develop and plan the roll-out of application features
Test UI across multiple browsers and platforms
Experience You Have:
Work experience/educational background in Human Computer Interaction
Javascript testing frameworks (e.g. Karma, Jasmine, Mocha)
Html, CSS (highly skilled), CSS pre-compilers (e.g. LESS, SASS)
Data Visualization tools like D3.js, three.js, and more generally, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, etc
Mapbox/TileMill/Leaflet
Experience building web applications, start to finish
Strong UI implementation experience
Knowledge of Node.js
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
5+ years relevant experience
Who You Are:
Know what it takes to ship high quality code
Excellent communicator
A great team player –you have a point of view, and know how to humbly raise it
Bonus Points:
Experience using RESTful APIs
Experience with quantitative analysis products
large scale systems, parallel computing, distributed storage
Understanding of relational databases and distributed databases (e.g. Postgres, Cassandra, Bigtable)
Graduate degree / Research experience
Please include any relevant work samples with your application, thanks!
Gro Intelligence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.