Instill education is hiring a
Senior/Lead Full Stack Engineer
(NodeJS, React Native & MongoDB)
Anticipated start: April 2023
Location: Remote (South Africa, Kenya, Ghana)
Team: Product Team
Instill’s mission is to transform teaching, learning and leadership in every classroom on the African continent. We believe that the greatest levers for change in the education system are teachers and school leaders. We have recently been accredited as a higher education institution in South Africa, and are launching Upskill, a mobile-first learning platform to support teachers in their ongoing professional development. Following an MVP built externally we are now building our own engineering team. We’re looking for an experienced Lead/ Senior Engineer to join our small and growing team to ensure the success of our online learning platform. As our first internal software engineer, reporting to our CTO, this will be a great opportunity to help shape the future of our engineering team and technology platform.
What makes you a great candidate?
You are an experienced (7+ years) software engineer who is ambitious, eager to learn and has a passion for education. You enjoy working in a fast-paced business environment and are looking grow with a young organisation that seeks to change the face of education across the African continent. You enjoy developing mobile applications with a cloud-based serverless backend, using serverless NodeJS, React Native and MongoDB. You are well-organised and you bring experience in leading a small team of software engineers by example. You are equally comfortable to step back, dig into code and just get work done together with your colleagues. You want to learn how a start-up works and are excited by the challenge of immersing yourself in new contexts and tackling complex problems. You are not afraid of failure and are driven to improve through robust, data-driven decision making and feedback.
When evaluating your candidacy, beyond your engineering skills we will look for the following:
What does role entail?
As a Lead or Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with our Product Team and our CTO to evolve, further build and develop as well as operate our mobile-first learning platform , providing engaging, interactive learning experiences.
This includes:
Required Skills & Experience:
Selection Criteria:
Do our values resonate with yours?
We measure the impact of everything we do.
We believe that education equity is a central pillar of achieving social justice.
We pursue excellence in everything that we do.
We have the courage to make bold decisions and learn from our mistakes.
We build community by being accountable for our actions, fostering collaborative environments, and acting with integrity and humility.
We believe that diversity is central to our success.