LiteFarm is a free and open source app developed to help current and aspiring sustainable farmers make the right decisions about the health of their farm, their livelihood, their community, and the planet. LiteFarm is currently being used by thousands of farmers in more than 140 countries.
LiteFarm was born out of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at The University of British Columbia and is now being developed by a global team of staff, students, and contributors. If you want to work with a talented and passionate group of software and design professionals, farmers, researchers, and citizen scientists please apply!
We’re looking for a strong Technical Lead to join our team. This individual will lead the engineering team and our community of open source contributors in making good decisions and implementing solid designs. They will work closely with product and design to effectively convert designs and requirements into features. They’ll support the engineering team in making good decisions and actively provide guidance and feedback to staff engineers and contributors. In concert with QA, the Technical Lead will own code quality for the organization.
Akvo is looking for a dynamic and visionary Chief Technical Officer (CTO) to drive our technical solutions and platform development. This is a unique opportunity to take our technical solutions to the next level. With a team of data and development experts, an open source data platform and a proven methodology, we help governments and non-governmental organizations become data driven so that they can achieve inclusive and sustainable impact.
In this role as CTO, you will be responsible for all aspects of our technical solutions, including technical consultancy and product development. You will lead and supervise Akvo's Technical Solutions team of 17 people, and make sure they are able to develop and operate our standard products and custom technical solutions. You are a visionary leader that drives Akvo's strategy regarding technical data solutions for our partners. You also play a key role in developing, implementing and executing Akvo's global strategy. The team members of the Tech Solutions team are located all over the world, therefore your remote leadership skills are crucial.
As our CTO, you will be a member of Akvo's management team (MT) and inform the MT members on all strategic matters relating to technical solutions. You will frequently align with our hub managers and project managers.
This position is based in Amsterdam, and you will be reporting to the CEO.
To apply for this position, or in case of any questions, please send your motivation letter and resume in PDF to Jeroen van der Sommen via our website [1] with the subject line "Application CTO". The closing date for this application is 9 May 2021.
Akvo | Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm | Full time | Platform Engineer | REMOTE | http://akvo.org/about-us/
Akvo is a non profit foundation, creating open source software and sensors. We focus on making international development and country governance more effective, transparent and collaborative.
Our Development team is a diverse and distributed group across EU with clusters in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Barcelona.
== Main tasks and responsibilities
* Develop common/shared platform services in Akvo
* Together with the team lead, coordinate architecture concerns between products
* Provide technical direction to the rest of teams
* Research existing FOSS components and assess the trade-offs (build vs buy)
* Collaborate with QA and Ops teams to make better and more reliable software.
== Requirements and competencies
* “Strong opinions, weakly held”
* You have developed complex systems under organizational constraints
* You like mentoring developers and you're advocating good programming practices
* You have JVM and Linux experience (performance and memory troubleshooting)
* You have experience from fast growing organizations and/or Lean startup methodology
== Interview process
You'll have interviews via Skype/video, with Platform team lead, Head of Development and your potential
colleagues. Please send motivation letter and resume to Iván Perdomo <work[at]akvo.org>
Akvo - http://akvo.org - EU, half to full time, a few positions
Akvo creates and runs open source Internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development aid work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.
* Java developer - Amsterdam, EU.
We are hiring a Java developer to join the team for one of our core software products, Akvo FLOW. FLOW is an open source platform to collect, manage, analyse and display geographically-referenced monitoring and evaluation data.
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.
You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office You need experience with developing web applications with Java, and experience with JS frameworks like Ember is a plus. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.
For this position, please contact ivan@akvo.org
You must have a work permit already to work in Amsterdam.
We are looking for an experienced web developer to work on our project visualisation and reporting system Akvo RSR. More than 1000 organisations use the around the world, everything from UN agencies, governments to small local NGOs.
You'll be working with our international team, based out of our Amsterdam office or our Stockholm hub. You need experience with developing web applications with Python, and preferably Django. Ability to work in a distributed team in a self driven manner is expected.
For this position, please contact adrian@akvo.org
You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.
* UI designer / developer - Helsinki, Stockholm, Amsterdam; EU.
If you are a UI designer / developer with startup experience wanting to contribute to make the world better, please read on!
We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, pro-active and energetic UI developer / designer. Reporting to the lead designer, your primary responsibility will be to create and ensure a consistent and beautiful UI throughout our software platform, which includes web applications, desktop applications and mobile / tablet applications.
You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products.
We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki, Stockholm or Amsterdam. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.
Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org
LiteFarm is a free and open source app developed to help current and aspiring sustainable farmers make the right decisions about the health of their farm, their livelihood, their community, and the planet. LiteFarm is currently being used by thousands of farmers in more than 140 countries.
LiteFarm was born out of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at The University of British Columbia and is now being developed by a global team of staff, students, and contributors. If you want to work with a talented and passionate group of software and design professionals, farmers, researchers, and citizen scientists please apply!
We’re looking for a strong Technical Lead to join our team. This individual will lead the engineering team and our community of open source contributors in making good decisions and implementing solid designs. They will work closely with product and design to effectively convert designs and requirements into features. They’ll support the engineering team in making good decisions and actively provide guidance and feedback to staff engineers and contributors. In concert with QA, the Technical Lead will own code quality for the organization.
Tech stack:
- PERN (PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js) - Docker / Docker Compose - Digital Ocean
Application deadline: July 28, 2023
More info at: https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit-job/cce58778137c4d50b1...