Software Developer

About One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to grow their way out of hunger and poverty.

Instead of giving handouts, we invest in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We supply a complete service bundle of seeds and fertilizer, financing, training, and market facilitation—and we deliver these services within walking distance of the over 800,000 rural farmers we serve. We measure success in our ability to make farmers more prosperous and we always put Farmers First.

Position

This Software Developer position is available in Kigali, Rwanda and in Jinja, Uganda.

Our database uses a distributed client/server model where field offices can perform data entry and run reports offline while syncing with a central server as needed (e.g., during times of poor internet connectivity). On the back end, the technologies used are SQL server 2014 with merge replication to field offices, while on the front end we use MVC.Net, Breeze.js, and Angular.js. As we are growing, we are looking to:

• Improve our existing tools to capture a wide variety of program configurations per country
• Provide central management and reporting tools while maintaining a focus on field usability
• Build out efficient bulk data entry functionality with a heavy focus on data quality control, as well as field-facing mobile and tablet data entry, and reporting where appropriate

Responsibilities

• Produce a field-facing, mission-critical Program Management System
• Participate in the continued development of our mission-critical custom database, that has an impact on every aspect of the organization’s operations 
• Develop features allowing for flexibility in the way individual countries run their operations, while still focusing on reusability across countries
• Maintain a long-term perspective when faced with urgent operational demands 
• Work with our small team of developers 
• Maintain coding standards and participate in peer code reviews
• Experiment with a variety of technologies to improve operations. Investigate appropriate solutions for deploying upgrades, database scaling, and interacting with 3rd party software providers 
• Become familiar with every aspect of our field operations and identify areas for improvement in the tools we develop to support the field

Your qualification

• 2+ years of work or internship experience
• Sound programming skills. C#/MVC.Net/Breeze.js/Angular.js preferable, but not required
• Knowledge of database concepts and SQL/Linq
• Strong self-manager. After an initial six-month period of heavy mentorship, supervision will consist of one weekly check-in. Therefore, we need someone who is very well-organized and can manage their work independently
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least two years
• Experience living in a developing country is desired, but not a requirement 
• Language: English required, French is a plus