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Kasha is a fast-growing startup e-commerce company in East Africa focused on women’s health and personal care, selling products such as menstrual care, contraceptives, HIV self-tests, soaps, lotions, baby diapers, and beauty products. Kasha’s e-commerce is highly accessible across the region and customers can order via website, app, USSD (basic mobile phone, no internet), call center or social media. On top of the consumer business, Kasha’s business includes market insight, analytics, and service offerings to global manufacturers of FMCG, Pharma and Beauty products with the aim of helping them drive their revenue and market penetration.About the Role
Build scalable APIs, data processing pipelines, and integrations. Support existing services, websites and CMS. Develop user-facing interfaces using modern frameworks like React, Angular, or in pure HTML/ JS. This role can be based in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and/or Egypt.
Responsibilities
Maintaining the python USSD repository that manages the USSD ordering systems for both RW & KE (*911#, *308#), USSD customer lists, and the agents onboarding.
Write and maintain the MS Dynamics extensions (for integrations with 3rd parties and Kasha-specific customizations
Maintain the front-end components of Kasha websites and CMS.
Maintain and further develop Kasha Care App (form mobile phones)
Coordinate with the PM team to assess the feasibility of features and plan their implementation.
Maintain the module (written in Python) for mass-market agent commission calculation.
Maintain the SMS service (written in PHP).
Coordinate with other team members to share specialized knowledge about one’s own specialization and learn about the other team member’s specializations.
Get familiar with the MS Dynamics UI, in order to be able to understand and evaluate business requests for new features or improvements.
Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge
Proficiency in the following: Python; SQL; AWS: RDS, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda; Rabbit MQ; Redis; MongoDB; MS Dynamics API, PHP, JS, HTML5, CSS
5+ years of experience.
BSc in computer science or AWS Certified Developer (https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-developer-associate).
Great written and verbal communication skills (our team is operating globally)
Openness to learning new systems and programming languages (first and foremost MS Dynamics 365 Business Central and AL)
The ability to organize one’s own time, because we are not physically working in the same location (or even time zone), and document the work in our chosen task-tracker