---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Podolsky <podolsky@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:03 PM Subject: [TIER] Fwd: Come build cloud/mobile apps in Ghana To: tier@tier.cs.berkeley.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Davies <mark@esoko.com> Date: Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:09 AM Subject: Come build cloud/mobile apps in Ghana Work in Ghana for a year... Share your skills... Make a difference...**** http://careers.esoko.com **** **** ** ** *What we build... *We’re trying to see how mobile technologies can drive economic development in Africa. We build information tools for farmers in SMS, USSD, IVR, Web, Android, J2ME apps. We build content and apps for farming businesses and initiatives (like stock management, certifcation, surveying), used throughout the continent (currently 8 countries). Visit http://about.esoko.com **** ** ** *Who we are... *An international team of 55 of the brightest designers, engineers and agric experts who want to use mobile to change the world. We’re focussed on innovation, professionalism, fun and social impact. We’re a private business.**** ** ** *The Ghana program... *Esoko has modern office and a fully furnished guesthouse just five minutes away from the office. Accra is safe, hot, fun and colorful. We can arrange travel, food, accommodation, work visas and everything to make your visit comfortable, and memorable. Just check out the http://careers.esoko.com for details, pictures of the team, guesthouse and office. Your role would be for a minimum stay of one year to develop the team. If you want a challenge. for a year.. Join Us!**** ** ** ** ** *Senior Software Engineers* Looking for senior engineers to provide leadership, mentoring and guidance to a growing team. Building distributed high performance apps across multiple countries and devices that can scale. Unique opportunity to work in one of Ghana’s biggest and most ambitious software shops. API, Java, GWT, data modelling, design, performance are the key work areas with primary focus on Java/PHP. You must be smart & creative with strong analytical skills and good experience. -- and willing to share your knowledge.**** ** ** *Software Product Managers* Anyalytic and imaginative business process thinkers are required to capture client requirements and translate those into conceptual and clear product specifications. We’re inventing a broad range of different apps that help rural businesses. You should be good at describing clear concepts, listening to clients, using your imagination, and working with a young and ambitious product team. You should have at least five years of product management experience.**** ** ** *UIX Designer* This is a challenging role to create clean and simple designs for functional products that help users manage their businesses. Interfaces exist on web, android, mobile touch, sms, IVR, USSD... we need apprpriate designs that work with local skills and capacities so that informatoin can be retrieved, sorted, filtered, personalized and comprehended. This role would be to mentor a local ghana team and bring up their design skills. Highly creative and, iterative role.**** ** ** *Quality Assurance Testing Manager* Help Esoko develop a comprehensive and thorough testing strategy and team. Focus on testing automation with Selenium and Squish. Develop stress testing and usability assessments for the product. Strengthen QA skills and processes. You should have significant relevant experience for this role.** ** ** ** Other roles, more details, and online application forms are available at**** http://careers.esoko.com**** ** ** ** ** *Please share this link with anyone you think would be interested…* ** ** -----------------------------------------**** **** *Mark Davies** | **Esoko** ***** Chief Executive Officer**** Accra* | *Nairobi* | *Mauritius**** Tel: +233 (302) 211611**** www.esoko.com **** **** ** ** _______________________________________________ TIER mailing list Website: http://tier.cs.berkeley.edu TIER@tier.cs.berkeley.edu https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tier