Impact Fellow

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Duration: 6 – 12 Months

Apply: jobs@hellotractor.com

General Inquires: hello@hellotractor.com

Company Overview 

Hello Tractor has a bold vision to radically transform how the smallholder agricultural ecosystem interacts with and derives value from technology. At Hello Tractor, we are unlocking value across the mechanization value chain – from tractor fleet owners to contractors, SMEs, and smallholder farmers. We crowd in technology to catalyze that transformative value, lower transaction costs, and increase market transparency while creating a sustainable impact across the agricultural lifecycle.

Job Summary

The Hello Tractor Impact Fellowship offers a unique opportunity for talented and passionate individuals interested in solving challenging problems to join in this vision. Fellows will work with and contribute to a startup team to address some of the most critical and exciting agricultural issues in the developing world. Fellows will be physically located in Nairobi, Kenya.

Key Responsibilities

• • Designing and developing high-quality, efficient, and maintainable Android applications.
  • Leading a team of developers in defining, designing, and shipping new features.
  • Mentoring and guiding junior developers and providing technical expertise to the team.
  • Writing unit tests to ensure code robustness, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Continuously discovering, evaluating, and implementing new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
  • Debugging and resolving application issues and maintaining code quality and organization.
  • Ensuring optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications.
  • Collaborating with product management, UX/UI designers and backend engineers to develop a seamless user experience.

Qualifications

• • University degree with at least two years of work experience in related fields (e.g. start-ups, agri-tech, consulting, social enterprises).
  • Strong analytical, critical business judgment, and problem-solving skills.
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with different kinds of stakeholders.
  • Flexibility, ability to work autonomously, in a team setting, and proactively.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication.
  • General curiosity and passion for development in emerging economies.

Apply

If this sounds like what you have been seeking, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@hellotractor.com. Please put Impact Fellowship in the subject line.