In 2035, Africa will have the largest workforce in the world and will need to catalyze transformation by empowering its largest untapped resource - its people. Fueled by this, the African Leadership Group is an ecosystem of institutions with a shared vision to harness Africa's abundant human capital and transform the continent and the world by selecting, developing, and connecting 2 million young leaders to opportunities by 2030. ALG was founded over 15 years ago by Fred Swaniker, a serial entrepreneur recognized by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019. ALX and The Room are two brands of the African Leadership Group.
ALX is our training arm, focused on developing skills for the fourth industrial revolution (software engineering, devops, data science, etc.) to ensure that Africa is able to compete effectively as the world undergoes a digital transformation. To cement this, through our legal entity African Leadership International (ALI), we have signed an agreement to acquire Silicon Valley based Holberton Inc. – a project-based, college alternative educating the next generation of software engineers. This will give us ownership of the advanced technology program that will enable us to provide global organizations access to significant untapped pools of talent that can bridge the growing global shortage of technology talent. For more on this, please read this article here.
The Room, our talent placement arm, is a community that our young talent join to access global work opportunities. To learn more about us, please read this article about why we launched The Room & this article about the impact of our development programs on African youth.
Part of the Technical Team, the Data Team is responsible for everything about data, storage, migration, analysis, reports, and exports. This squad works with the technical lead, the CTO, and the product team to improve performance and analyze student behaviors for all our products.
You will be especially responsible for data analysis, extraction, and reports. As your Data Team colleague, you will be in charge of extracting and formatting the data that the education team needs to operate the programs and provide the best support to students. The goal is to build everything we need for analyzing student behaviors, to detect future talents and/or target coaches help. You will make the data available to give insight to the product team and improve student and staff experience.
As part of the Software Team, you will be involved in backend development and design - including new features, bug fixes and code reviews.
- +3 years of experience in back-end development (Ruby, Python or JavaScript)
- Great oral and written communication skills in English
- 2+ years experience with both relational and document-oriented databases (SQL, Redis...)
- The ability to understand and interpret data
- Base or advanced knowledge and experience with Ruby On Rails
- RESTful API design experience
- Ability to work remotely and autonomously
- MySQL/Postgresql/Redis/BigQuery administration, migration
- Coding skills in Ruby, Javascript, Python
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS or GCP
- Experience with Google Analytics and Google APIs
- Curiosity and/or experience in Machine learning and AI
- GitHub
- Humanity Centered: You believe in humanity’s ability to self-improve, and are passionate about leveraging technology, streamlined systems and data to solve human-centric problems
- Impact Creation Mindset: You seek to create lasting impact by solving problems that address systemic growth challenges
- Think Big: You have the ability to think in terms of ambitious goals that span years, not months
- Accountability: You have an “owner’s approach” to be able to deliver on minimal supervision
- Structure: You have the discipline to take audacious goals and break down years-long roadmaps into near term deliverables that provide value to business stakeholders
- Coaching: You enjoy educating your peers and business partners about what it means to be data-oriented and cultivating engineering best practices
We would like to remind you that this is a remote job, which means that you can work from anywhere in the world.