🕒 yesterday
Own client-facing engineering solutions end to end: investigate operational problems, guide clients toward practical approaches, and configure or build, test, and ship software that delivers lasting outcomes.
Creative Software Engineer for Innovation Lab
📅 Sep 21
Software EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureAI ToolsCode Review
📜 Description
- Rapidly prototype and research new software products in the Innovation Lab.
- Conceive logical software architectures and develop software using modern engineering practices and AI tools.
- Participate in regular code reviews and use disciplined version control.
- Collaborate with teams to build products addressing challenges in medicine, agriculture, and education.
🛠️ Requirements
- Ability to conceive logical software architectures and express yourself clearly, both verbally and in writing
- Highly preferred full-time employment of at least 40 hours per week.
- +3 years of experience with software engineering in a professional environment requiring strict code review
- +2 years of experience with modern software engineering with AI tools
- Good fluency in English speaking and writing, or you can use AI to write it quick too.
- Critical thinking skills, expressiveness, and team-oriented attitude.
- Possession or pursuit of a degree in computer science or software engineering, or comparable professional experience.
- Basics of efficient algorithms and data structures.
- Willingness to participate in regular code reviews, using disciplined version control, and working in teams.
- Development primarily on UNIX-based or OSX-Darwin platforms.
Full job description
QED (https://qed.ai) is a tech company focused on public health, agricultural security, and education in Sub-Saharan Africa. We build the digital infrastructure and AI used at the intersection of aid and scientific inquiry, including surveillance of HIV and malaria, and nutrient analysis of crops and soils, working at national-scale in multiple African countries. Our funding comes from philanthropic and governmental organizations, such as the Global Fund and the Gates Foundation.
We are looking for a software engineer to join our Innovation Lab, a special projects division that focuses on rapid prototyping and R&D. We build new products to disrupt the status quo and remind everyone what tech was made for --- improving the lives of everyday people!
Basic Requirements
Ability to conceive logical software architectures and express yourself clearly, both verbally and in writing
Highly preferred full-time employment of at least 40 hours per week.
+3 years of experience with software engineering in a professional environment requiring strict code review
+2 years of experience with modern software engineering with AI tools
Good fluency in English speaking and writing, or you can use AI to write it quick too.
Critical thinking skills, expressiveness, and team-oriented attitude.
Possession or pursuit of a degree in computer science or software engineering, or comparable professional experience.
Basics of efficient algorithms and data structures.
Willingness to participate in regular code reviews, using disciplined version control, and working in teams.
Development primarily on UNIX-based or OSX-Darwin platforms.
You have to care about the work that you do!
Nice to haves
+10 years of experience with software engineering in a professional environment requiring strict code review
Willingness to travel and go on an adventure! By visiting Africa, you can better understand the context of the problems we aim to solve.
Experience with Django, React, Android, or PyTorch.
Proficiency with software design patterns.
Experience with programming and/or math competitions.
Genuine interest in positive applications of tech for medicine and agriculture and education.
Experience with ethical hacking and computer networking is useful
Similar jobs
Search more Software Engineer jobs🕒 yesterday
Own client-facing engineering engagements from discovery through deployment, translating operational problems into practical platform configurations or production software and ensuring solutions are adopted and deliver results.
🕒 2 days ago
Design, build, and operate production systems that evaluate AI agent behavior, detect risk, and support safe actions, translating alignment research into reliable capabilities across agent experiences.
Software Engineer - Load Balancing
🕒 yesterday
Cloudflare👥 10,000+ employees🏢 Computer And Network Security🤝 B2B
🕒 yesterday
Design, build, and operate Cloudflare’s Load Balancing systems, developing reliable distributed services and improving production health while collaborating across engineering, security, SRE, and product teams.
Software Engineer, Size Analysis & Snapshots
🕒 yesterday
Sentry👥 201 - 500 employees🏢 Computer Software
🕒 yesterday
Build and operate full-stack features for mobile build size analysis and visual snapshot products, from CI ingestion and backend processing to GitHub integrations and fast, data-rich interfaces.