SENIOR FRONT-END DEVELOPER

FULL-TIME / FREELANCE

ABOUT US

Village Data Analytics (VIDA) is a software platform that enables teams to gather, clean, and analyse all relevant data about rural off-grid villages. We specifically target the energy access sector, where we enable governments and mini-grid developers to smoothly plan and execute electrification projects in Africa and Asia.

VIDA combines satellite imagery derived data intelligence with user collected on-ground and IoT data.

Our diverse team includes software and AI engineers, as well as rural market experts. VIDA is supported by appliedAI, Germany’s largest AI initiative, and by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Learn more at www.villagedata.io

Location: On-site or remote. In case of on-site work, you can choose to work from our office in Munich or Capetown. We are also open to freelancers.

Responsibilities

• Be part of our agile software development team, working with experienced software and AI engineers.
• Regularly present your work to our customers across Africa and Asia, discuss findings, and fine-tune their future requirements.
• Develop your own ideas and strive for an effective and clean codebase for VIDA.

Your profile

• >3 years work experience in front-end development with JavaScript /TypeScript
• Experience working in an agile software development style, e.g. Scrum
• In-depth experience with recent Angular versions
• Frontend development with TypeScript, including end-to-end tests (e.g. Protractor) and unit tests (e.g. Karma)
• Comfortable with making smart technical decisions about the future direction of the codebase
• Proficient in English (written / oral communication)
• Our team works fully remotely, so we need a team player with good communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience with DevOps practices and tools (e.g. Gitlab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes)
• Experience in the design of user interfaces and a good feeling for visually attractive layouts
• Experience with displaying geospatial / map data, such as with Mapbox GL JS
• We highly encourage female candidates and candidates from our markets of operation (sub-Saharan Africa, South, and Southeast Asia) to apply.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work in a diverse team to build a highly impactful and innovative product at the intersection of the hottest topics in technology and social impact. The team includes both experienced AI practitioners, as well as frontier market entrepreneurs with backgrounds in engineering, renewable energy, and finance.
• A culture of diversity and inclusion with team members from 8 countries, speaking 9 different languages, that bring in a variety of professional and personal experiences to empathise with the work we do.
• Open atmosphere that encourages the team to think and experiment in new ways with software and hardware
• A small, collaborative development team where your ideas, insights and decisions have a lot of weight and help steer the product in the right direction.
• Opportunity to work remotely: 50% (4/8) of our VIDA team works remotely from countries such as India, Sweden and UK. We pride ourselves on working-hours flexibility to respect time differences and on our systems to stay connected.
• If based in Munich, option to work from our Cape Town office for some time. The opportunity to travel for work in several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa post COVID-19.

Sounds interesting? Then please send your application — CV and a short motivational letter to philippe.raisin@villagedata.io . We look forward to hearing from you!