Job Recruitment at Gidi Mobile Limited

Gidi Mobile Limited is the creator of gidimo, Africa’s most advanced curriculum mastery & learning-for-livelihoods platform. One of the first cohort of five African companies ever to be selected for Google’s Global Launchpad Accelerator Program in San Francisco, our mission is “to deliver opportunity, and the capacity required to exploit it, to every willing learner”.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Android Developer

Location: Victoria, Island Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Details

• Are you an experienced Android Developer with a strong passion for excellence while breaking new frontiers? Are you passionate about developing awesome applications that actually transform real human beings’ lives? Would you love to join a global, world-class team of experts that loves to have fun while doing great work? If this is you in a nutshell, then we have a job for you!

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for developing and maintaining world-class android applications in collaboration with product managers, engineers and product designers
• You will be required to help identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• You will conduct code reviews and help maintain code quality & documentation

Requirements
To be successful in this role, you are expected to have:

• A minimum of 3 years’ Android development experience with Java
• Deep knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and expertise with building for multiple screen sizes & devices
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• Experience with Android Architecture Components
• Experience with Firebase products – including Cloud Messaging, Analytics, Invites, Dynamic Links, and Crashlytics among others
• Expertise and experience with developing for users in poor-connectivity environments
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices
• Experience with offline storage and performance tuning
• Knowledge of open-source Android ecosystem and the libraries available for common tasks
• Experience with Android Studio and Git

Finally, in terms of human qualities, a strong candidate for this role will:

• Be deeply curious, and up-to-date with the latest trends & techniques
• Have a significant degree of developer community involvement and reputation
• Have a very high level of integrity, and unquestioned respect for intellectual property
• Be very hardworking, very persistent, and very self-driven
• Share our passion to create a better world through our work

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Full Stack Developer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Description

• Are you an experienced Full-stack Java Developer who cares about the meaning & impact of your work? Are REST services and server-side applications like air for you? Are you passionate about excellence and breaking new frontiers? Would you like to join a team of analytical minds who constantly strive for brilliance in user delight? Are you willing to explore new opportunities and a do you have a strong desire for self-growth? Would you love to join a global, world-class team of experts that loves to have fun while doing great work? If this sounds like you, then we have a job for you!

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing and maintaining Java-based REST services and server-side applications using industry standard software development practices, techniques and tools
• Implement unit and integration tests required for continuous delivery process
• You will be required to identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
• You will conduct code reviews and help maintain code quality & documentation

Requirements
To be successful in this role, you are expected to have:

• A minimum of three years’ experience designing, testing, and implementing Java applications with Spring framework
• Experience with Spring Projects such as Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud
• Experience designing, building and testing REST APIs
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery process with Jenkins
• Good knowledge of Maven and Git
• Practical experience as a Linux OS user and knowledge of Bash shell scripting
• Experience with container solutions such as Docker
• Strong database skills preferable experience with relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL, Redis, MongoDB  [Knowledge of, or experience with, learning platforms or/and learning technologies would be a very strong plus]
• Experience with Angular(4/5)  and JavaScript/TypeScript would be a plus

Finally, in terms of human qualities, a strong candidate for this role will:

• Be deeply curious, and up-to-date with the latest trends & techniques
• Have a significant degree of developer community involvement and reputation
• Have a very high level of integrity, and unquestioned respect for intellectual property
• Be very hardworking, very persistent, and very self-driven
• Share our passion to create a better world through our work

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Product Designer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Department: Interfaces & UX Design
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Mid-level

Description

• Are you a stickler for product perfection? Would you ascend Mt Everest with no oxygen to find the perfect user experience design? Do UI brilliance, economy of gestures, & sub-conscious product delight hooks sound exciting to you? Would you like to deliver products that are deliriously beautiful, AND transform millions of human lives for the better, forever? Would you like to join a global, world-class team of experts that loves to have fun while doing great work? If this is you in a nutshell, then we have a job for you!

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for product design for mobile & web platforms, from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• You will be responsible for ensuring that our products are designed with jaw-dropping user-interfaces, and that they incorporate best-in-class user experience design
• You will convert business requirements into pixel perfect designs; bringing them to life with a variety of usability techniques
• You will create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps for mobile and web platforms
• You will present and defend designs and deliverables to peers and executives
• You will conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
• You will establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards
• You will design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant

Requirements
To be successful in this role, you are expected to have:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, New Media Design or any related Design field
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in UI/UX design
• Superior UX and UI skills and the ability to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artefacts, and then transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Exceptional front-end web design expertise
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Origami, Axure, Visio, Zeplin, Invision, Sketch, or other visual design and prototyping tools or equivalent
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and frameworks for rapid prototyping
• Knowledge of all aspects of the software development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and associated execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, etc.)
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction​
• The ability to present your designs and sell your solutions.

Finally, in terms of human qualities, a strong candidate for this role will:

• Have a very deep love for art & beauty
• Be deeply curious, and up-to-date with the latest UI trends & techniques
• Have a very high level of integrity, and unquestioned respect for intellectual property
• Be very hardworking, very persistent, and very self-driven
• Share our passion to create a better world through our work.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Learning Community Engagement Intern

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos

Job Descriptions

• Gidi Mobile is a mission-driven company focused on delivering opportunity and the capacity to exploit it to every willing learner. Our offering, gidimo, is the most revolutionary approach to learning, incorporating mastery, gamification and social learning to drive educational achievement in a convenient and fun way across multiple segments
• We are currently looking for awesome game-changers who are crazy about making learning super fun for teenagers! If you’d love to gain leadership and social engagement experiences in an international brand, while earning cool cash as you work with team members across the globe, this internship is for you!

What will you be required to do?

• Grow, encourage and manage communities of gidimo SSP learners (Bonus points if you’re a past or current member)
• Work closely with the Marketing and Growth team to develop and execute marketing strategies targeted at recruiting learners
• Be the voice of the learners, sharing feedback  with the Product and Engineering team
• Work closely with the Brand & Audience Engagement team to plan, create and publish content for social media channels daily/weekly that support and engage our community of learners
• Brainstorm new ways to engage with learners in the gidimo SSP community
• Identify and analyze issues, patterns and trends in learners’ activities
• Analyze key community engagement performance metrics
• Manage community interactions and learning activities
• Identify and engage advocates (highly engaged learners) to improve the learning program
• Stay up-to-date on new social media tools and best practices of other organizations and companies, so our company continues to be an early adopter of these technologies

To be eligible for this role, you should:

• Be an undergrad or Pre-NYSC graduate with a minimum GPA of 4.35 in the Humanities or Sciences
• Have a strong intuition and ability to identify potential negative community reaction or crisis in advance and prepare mitigation plans;
• Possess exceptional writing skills with strong attention to detail, grammar, and tone
• Be comfortable with graphic tools such as Photoshop or video editing software
• Have experience managing social channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc)
• Be experienced in online / mobile social gaming environment.
• Have a deep understanding of gidimoSSP target audience’s behavior and preferences
• Possess a proven ability to work independently with enthusiasm, energy, and drive
• Have experience working with technical teams as an intern or user
• Be passionate about our mission and learners
• Have experience in growing and managing online communities (counts as an added advantage)

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online