Akvo Foundation (www.akvo.org) - Experienced DevOps engineer to help open source software foundation scale and grow.
Location: Amsterdam, London, Stockholm or REMOTE
Akvo seeks an experienced software development operations engineer to join our team and help us grow as we maintain and improve our core software products, Akvo RSR, Akvo FLOW and Akvo Openaid. You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving our cloud and SaaS infrastructure (eg servers, VMs and databases). We will also look to you to explore and recommend new technologies to help our team maintain and grow our infrastructure to respond to increasing demand for our products.
You must live in a time zone between UTC -5 to UTC +2 (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe) and speak fluent English. You must also already have residence or a visa to live and work in the location where you will be.
Desired experience: maintaining cloud infrastructure, Java/Python, open source projects, integration projects, managing migrations, working remotely in a distributed team.
Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.
To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to [email protected].
To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to [email protected].
Akvo seeks a developer to join our tech team that starts by contributing to software quality assurance (QA, SQA) across two of our core products - Akvo RSR and Akvo FLOW. You should be comfortable writing and running tests on features and bug fixes, helping our team implement testing process and frameworks, as well as engaging in conversations about our overall approach to QA and feature development. At the end of the day, we are looking for someone who is passionate about getting a quality product out that can have positive global impact.
Core skills required: writing scripts for verification and validation testing, enthusiasm for learning on the job and taking initiative to grow your role on the team over time.
Desired experience: Python, Java, open source projects, working in a widely distributed team, testing frameworks such as Lettuce, Selenium.
Our tech team is spread across several hubs, including Amsterdam, Stockholm, London, and Washington DC. You could work from one of these locations, or remotely from a home office. You must live in a time zone between UTC -5 to UTC +2 (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe) and speak fluent English. You must also already have residence or a visa to live and work in the location in which you will be.
Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.
Akvo Foundation is hiring a Java developer to join the team for one of our core software products, Akvo FLOW. FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch) is an open source platform to collect, manage, analyse and display geographically-referenced monitoring and evaluation data.
Looking for a full-time developer, and you can work remotely. To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to [email protected].
We have some fun and hard problems to solve -- how can we maintain and extend a complex tool with a lot of moving parts (a mobile app, a web platform, map displays) while keeping it simple and enjoyable for people to use? Double down when they need to be able to use it in areas of the world with low or scarce web and mobile connectivity. How do we make the data users collect satisfying and easy to work with? Can we build web and mobile apps that can flex from an $80 off-the-shelf Android device, to a tablet, to a desktop computer? And finally, can we build FLOW to become the go-to tool for international monitoring and evaluation?
This is what we are looking for in a developer:
• You are a smart, creative and experienced Java developer who wants to learn and improve a new and complex software platform end-to-end.
• You are an independent, self-motivated worker who can also be a strong team member.
• You can see the big picture but attend diligently to the small details that make software work.
• You enjoy and value communicating your work to your team and your users.
Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.
Core skills required:
• Java
• Web frameworks, such as Spring
• Google App Engine
• Strong database and SQL skills with knowledge of NoSQL databases
• Google Web Toolkit and Ext JS
• JavaScript/HTML/CSS/Ajax
Major plus skills:
• Experience developing native Android apps or other mobile phone apps (our mobile app is Android)
• Google Enterprise Technologies (Google Apps, Google Maps, Google Search) and Amazon Web Services
• JDO and other persistence technologies
• GIS software and libraries such as GeoTools
• Unit testing in Java and agile development
• Some combination of Python, Ruby, Django, Git, Lettuce, Robotium, Calabash
Our team is close knit, despite being distributed. We take the people and team factors very seriously, both our colleagues and our partners using our software (we call them partners and not clients). This also means that we take work-life balance and the importance of having fun very seriously. The fact that most of our developers telecommute means that you can maintain a flexible schedule and work environment to suit your needs.
You would work from home and expect to spend a lot of time on Skype connecting with your colleagues. It may also be possible for you to work close to colleagues in our Amsterdam, Helsinki, Stockholm or Washington DC hubs. You write and speak fluent English, and you are based in a UTC-5 to UTC+2 timezone (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe).
To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to [email protected].
Akvo seeks an experienced software development operations engineer to join our team and help us grow as we maintain and improve our core software products, Akvo RSR, Akvo FLOW and Akvo Openaid. You will be responsible for maintaining and evolving our cloud and SaaS infrastructure (eg servers, VMs and databases). We will also look to you to explore and recommend new technologies to help our team maintain and grow our infrastructure to respond to increasing demand for our products.
Core skills required: managing VMs, provisioning frameworks (eg Puppet, Chef, Salt), Linux.
You must live in a time zone between UTC -5 to UTC +2 (East Coast United States to Eastern Europe) and speak fluent English. You must also already have residence or a visa to live and work in the location where you will be.
Desired experience: maintaining cloud infrastructure, Java/Python, open source projects, integration projects, managing migrations, working remotely in a distributed team.
Akvo is a small non-profit foundation with a big mission. We create open source web and mobile software, and build networks of skilled partners that can change the way development aid is allocated and reported. This is important, because it improves the way projects are implemented in some of the poorest parts of the world, making them more effective, efficient, sustainable and visible.
To apply for this position, send your resume and a brief cover note to [email protected].