Senior Software Engineer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated professional. Basic job summary: The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing software infrastructure. This role will lead the full-stack development and system integration of backend services, APIs, and data pipelines. Key Responsibilities: Software Development and Design

• Collaborate with the project technical lead and other team members to analyze requirements and design software solutions for AI applications.

• Develop, test, and debug software components for data exchange gateways, and cloud platforms.

• Assist in implementing data management, analytics, and visualization features for AI applications.

• Implement engineering frameworks that enable LLM-based advisory systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), structured knowledge integration, and prompt orchestration.

• Integrate soil, weather, and agronomic datasets into retrieval and reasoning pipelines to support contextualized and actionable advisory outputs.

• Support experimentation with different GenAI architectures and system configurations in collaboration with data science teams.

• Develop or support frontend and interface components (e.g. dashboards, admin tools, sandbox interfaces) required for internal testing, monitoring, and partner integration.

• Implement technical controls to support data governance requirements, including consent-aware data access, role-based permissions, and audit logging.

• Participate in code reviews and maintain coding standards and best practices.

.Quality Assurance and Testing

• Debug Identify and address any software-related issues, anomalies, or performance bottlenecks.

• Collaborate with the Quality Assurance team to ensure a high-quality optimized code solution.

• Ensure the security and integrity of AI software systems, implementing encryption, authentication, and access control mechanisms as necessary.

• Perform code reviews, testing, and debugging activities to maintain high quality and reliability in software deliverables.

• Ensure secure handling of sensitive or regulated data in line with Kenya’s Data

• Protection Act and project governance frameworks.

• Embed responsible AI considerations into system design, including safeguards, escalation pathways, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms where required.

Documentation and Reporting

• Create and maintain comprehensive repository documentation for software designs, iterations, specifications, and testing procedures.

• Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for software MVP development and testing.

• Generate simulation and evaluat...