Senior Flutter Developer at Lingawa

About the innovative team redefining how people connect with African languages:

We’re Lingawa (formerly TopSet) and basically, we're transforming the way people connect with African languages. Backed by VCs, Google, Techstars, and the Mastercard Foundation.

As an innovative edtech AI platform, we're passionate about what we do: our mission is to ignite cultural pride and economic empowerment through African languages ?

We live this out by building cutting-edge Voice LLM solutions, bringing African languages into the AI age, and up-skilling native speakers of African languages into world-class tutors with the latest learning science.

The Position & You:

As our Senior Flutter Developer, you’ll be the driving force behind creating seamless, mobile-first language learning experiences.

Your expertise in Flutter will be at the forefront of our product, ensuring that our mobile applications are engaging, efficient, and accessible, empowering millions to learn and connect.

While a deep mastery of Flutter is essential, experience in full-stack development (e.g. React, NestJS, and TypeScript) is a strong plus that can further enhance our innovative platform.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• Lead Mobile Innovation: Design, build, and maintain high-quality mobile applications using Flutter and Dart to deliver an intuitive and immersive language learning experience.
• Expand Access: Optimize mobile applications for performance and scalability, ensuring that our learners have a reliable, high-speed experience in diverse environments.
• Enhance User Engagement: Craft adaptive and responsive UIs that engage learners and make language learning fun and accessible anytime, anywhere.
• Expand Access: Optimize mobile applications for performance and scalability, ensuring that our learners have a reliable, high-speed experience in diverse environments.
• Fullstack Collaboration (Bonus): If you have fullstack expertise, contribute to cross-platform projects using technologies like React, NestJS, and TypeScript to further elevate our platform.
• Collaborate for Impact: Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to co-create features that drive user success.
• Mentor & Lead: Share your Flutter expertise with the team, conduct code reviews, and foster a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Drive Continuous Improvement: Stay ahead of industry trends and implement best practices to ensure our platform remains at the forefront of language education technology.

Ideally, you have: 

• Experience: 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Flutter Mastery: Proven expertise in building, testing, and deploying applications using Flutter and Dart.
• Mobile-First Mindset: Deep understanding of mobile app architecture, performance optimization, and responsive design.
• Fullstack Exposure (Ideal Bonus): Familiarity with React, NestJS, and TypeScript to support broader platform development.
• Cloud & DevOps Awareness: Basic experience with cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud) is a plus to understand app deployment in scalable environments.
• Cloud & DevOps: Strong expertise in AWS and Google Cloud, with a focus on security, scalability, and efficiency.
• Passion & Purpose: A strong belief in preserving African cultures and a commitment to empowering young people through innovative edtech solutions.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Analytical and creative in tackling complex challenges, with a drive for continuous improvement.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• High-Impact Work: Be part of a mission-driven company making a tangible difference in workforce development and cultural preservation in Africa.
• Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with AI, cloud computing, and mobile-first solutions to shape the future of edtech.
• Attractive Compensation: ₦1,500,000+ per month
• Comprehensive Benefits: Fantastic health insurance, pension plans, and more.
• Birthday PTO: Your birthday is a work-free day.
• Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere while contributing to a global mission.
• Growth & Development: Opportunities to innovate, lead, and grow in a fast-moving environment.

About the team:

We are a team of 50+ awesome people working from different locations around Nigeria. We hire nationally, you work locally—in the heart and heat of Lagos, your serviced apartment within Abuja, or a quiet village near Kaduna, the choice is yours.

We play fun games and have knowledge sharing sessions on our weekly Friday team-wides and Every end of year we meet up, usually in Lagos and spend some quality time together. End of Year 2024 at Ziba Beach Resorts was a blast and we look forward to more!

We place a great amount of trust in our people, and we are big on measuring outcomes/results, taking the OKR approach to managing performance. Our values fuel our results.

Wonder if you'll fit in? Get started below.

How to Get Started: ?

Ready to make that impact? Apply here. Let’s bring African languages into the AI age together!

The application process for this role:

• Submit your application.
• Take the technical assessment on Test Gorilla.
• First interview with the CTO.
• Technical Interview.
• Second interview with the CEO at Lingawa.
• Feedback.

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