Junior Software Developer at Yellow

About Yellow

• Yellow is a tech start-up making life better for everyday households in Africa.
• We provide solar-powered electricity at an affordable price to households across Malawi and Uganda who live off the grid. We operate through a network of agents and meet the challenges of last-mile distribution with technology, through an in-house developed platform called Ofeefee.
• We take pride in building great technology and developing exceptional business models to deliver value to our Base of the Pyramid customers across the African continent.
• We see last-mile distribution as the major impediment to low income customers in Africa accessing the technologies available to make their live’s better, and apply our focus to solving these challenges.

Your Mission
The mission of a Yellow Developer is:
1. Understand the business primary commercial imperatives
2. Synthesise the commercial imperatives with feedback from the in-country operations teams and agent network
3. Design, build, test, maintain and manage robust software solutions to enable the operations team members and agent networks to achieve their jobs and ultimately the companies objective to serve customers
Our team is primarily comprised of young computer scientists and engineers who combine a strong aptitude for software development with astute commercial thinking and ability to lead teams of people to overcome operational challenges.
The role is multi-faceted in that it involves far more than pure software development. We are looking for a candidate with rigorous and structured thought, and the discipline to deliver exceptional tech projects, but with an interest in learning business, finance and
operational skills.
Minimum Requirements
1. Able to demonstrate excellence in your track record
2. Able to convey your ambition to do something great
3. A desire to learn and build a diverse skill set
About Our Working Culture & Values

• Our team is young and hard working. We value down time and flexibility, and we focus on outputs rather than hours in the office, but we also believe that we have a unique opportunity at Yellow and we work very hard to meet the high standards we set for ourselves.
• We are low thrills and are careful custodians of money and resources. We love to travel to the countries we operate in and whenever we do, we make time to explore, but we do this, as with everything else, on a lean budget, cognisant of not diverting resources away from our customers, and our mission.
• We value resilience and self-reliance. Though we constantly organise ourselves to tackle problems in teams and ruthlessly support one another, we also believe that building independence and self-reliance in the face of challenges is an important part of growth.
• We believe that long term sustainability is a worthwhile goal. Whether in one’s personal life, from a business perspective, in relationships, or in the environment, we believe that prioritising long term benefits over short term wins is a good strategy. As such, we aim for balance, and slow, steady and disciplined progress in all that we do.