Full Stack Developer

About this role

About the job

Fika

At Fika, we envision a world where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists. Together with government, community, private sector, and impact-driven partners, we facilitate safe, reliable access through infrastructure solutions and have built more than 790 trail bridges, serving over 5.1 million community members throughout the world.

We provide flexible work arrangements, comprehensive mental and physical wellness support, and annual salary reviews aligned with our compensation policy. Additionally, we offer opportunities for professional growth, allowing individuals to shape their own career paths through targeted development programs.

Job Purpose

As a Full Stack Developer on Fika's digital team, you'll be both a builder and a product thinker in equal measure. Working closely with the Director of Digital Technology, you'll help scope, design, and ship the Fika Digital Platform: a suite of web applications that turn our research and data into tools governments and stakeholders use in their work to solve rural access challenges.

This role is a deliberate hybrid. Part of your time you'll be deep in code, building from the database up to the interface. The rest you'll wear a product manager's hat, interviewing users, framing the right problems, deciding what's worth building, and shaping where the platform goes next. We care deeply about design in our applications. The things you build shouldn't just work, they should feel good to use. If you take joy in building a beautiful map or data visualizations that tell stories, you'll fit right in.

Duties and responsibilities

You'll take early-stage ideas and turn them into things people can click, then help the best of them grow into real products. This role suits someone creative who thrives in ambiguity, ships quickly, has genuine taste, and gets why technology matters for communities cut off by distance. You'll work mainly in Python and front-end JavaScript frameworks (we're...