{"data":{"jobs":{"edges":[{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Senior Systems Engineer","company":"BetterQA","location":"Remote","range":"January 2023 - Present","url":"https://betterqa.co"},"html":"\n- Build and ship a multi-product AI SaaS suite end to end — schema through deployment through incident response — in PHP/Laravel and Node/TypeScript for a QA company of 50+ engineers
\n- Built BugBoard, an AI QA toolkit with vision-model screenshot analysis, NLP log parsing, Jira/Linear integration, and an explicit manual-review fallback for model misclassification
\n- Built Hireo, an AI recruitment pipeline parsing CVs in 30 seconds with semantic candidate-job matching, processing 500+ CVs/month in production with GDPR-compliant handling
\n- Built BetterFlow, a developer-productivity platform correlating GitHub commits, Jira tickets, and logged hours into an AI-powered anomaly-flagging analytics pipeline
\n- Designed deterministic, outcome-based payment verification: idempotent Stripe webhook processing via unique-constraint dedup, state and notification written in one transaction, notifications fired only after commit
\n- Built timing-safe HMAC-SHA256 webhook verification with message-ID deduplication and delivery-status tracking — hardened against replay and duplicate delivery
\n- Established delivery rigor across products: GitHub Actions CI, environment validation, health checks, a 41-test critical-path suite, and a documented 28-endpoint OpenAPI spec
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Senior Software Engineer","company":"GrowMobile","location":"Nairobi, Kenya","range":"January 2021 - January 2023","url":"#"},"html":"\n- Built and operated a real-time video e-learning platform serving 200K+ students in Nigeria, from classroom scheduling to live session delivery
\n- Debugged high-concurrency streaming and session reliability under production load — the platform's peak hours were national school hours
\n- Co-developed MsingiPACK, an offline-capable e-learning platform for Android and Windows built for schools with unreliable connectivity
\n- Built mjengoPay, a construction payroll and workforce-management platform: M-Pesa payouts to workers and suppliers, verified site attendance, materials controls, and audit-ready payment records
\n- Built The Card Guys, an online print e-commerce platform handling design uploads, a 5000+ template library, and order-to-delivery workflows for business cards, flyers, and branded print
\n- Designed automated build and deploy pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI across all product lines
\n- Served as the production escalation point with a 100% issue-resolution score
\n- Established automated server provisioning and systems-performance optimization across the company's infrastructure
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Backend Engineer","company":"Viusasa","location":"Nairobi, Kenya","range":"September 2019 - January 2021","url":"https://viusasa.com"},"html":"\n- Operated the backend for viusasa.com, a content streaming platform serving 2M+ users across Kenya
\n- Built and maintained REST APIs for video streaming, authentication, and content delivery at consumer scale
\n- Kept hot content fast under load with Redis caching layers in front of the content catalog
\n- Built the niText SMS platform, a premium SMS service integrating Kenyan carrier APIs for subscription messaging
\n- Engineered high-throughput message processing, delivery reporting, and subscription lifecycle handling for carrier-billed SMS revenue
\n- Ran production operations — monitoring, incident response, and performance tuning under peak-traffic events
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Software Developer","company":"Swifthub","location":"Nairobi, Kenya","range":"April 2018 - August 2019","url":"#"},"html":"\n- Joined while still a Computer Science student at the University of Kabianga — shipping production software before graduating
\n- Built M-RESIDE, a property-management platform in Laravel that digitizes rent payment, reconciliation, reporting, and tenant communication for landlords and agents
\n- Integrated M-PESA (Daraja) payment flows so tenants pay rent directly from their phones, with automatic reconciliation against units and leases
\n- Integrated bank APIs for reconciliation of non-mobile payments
\n- Worked on Deities Technologies, a KRA-approved eTIMS system integrator connecting POS, ERP, and fuel-station systems to KRA for tax compliance
\n- Developed both SOAP and REST web services consumed by partner systems
\n- Implemented automated test suites with Selenium WebDriver over the critical booking and billing paths
\n- Designed the relational schemas (MySQL) backing the billing and lease workflows
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"}},{"node":{"frontmatter":{"title":"Software Developer Intern","company":"PYCS","location":"Nairobi, Kenya","range":"2017","url":"https://pycs.co.ke"},"html":"\n- Started my professional career at PYCS, a Kenyan payments and financial-solutions company — my first production exposure to C# and the .NET stack
\n- Built and maintained financial reports for banking clients, learning how money movement gets audited and reconciled
\n- Worked with banking APIs powering secure payment flows — the beginning of a career-long specialty in payment integrations
\n- Absorbed the production disciplines of financial software — version control, code review, and testing where correctness is non-negotiable
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