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Angaza | Android Developer | SF | ONSITE https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/

Angaza enables off-grid energy products to be financed in emerging markets. Your work means more families turning on electricity for the first time each night:

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

We're a for-profit company, post-series A, with our technical team based in San Francisco. Right now, we're looking to add a developer focused on Android. Our mobile software is used by agents selling and servicing off-grid solar installations in more than a dozen countries. You can lead its development as we continue to rapidly expand.

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/ [San Francisco]

We're also hiring a number of other roles in Nairobi, e.g.:

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/director-of-sales/ [San Francisco + Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/senior-account-manager/ [Nairobi]

Our hiring process typically involves a phone conversation, a small home project, and an on-site interview. We don't believe in gotcha logic puzzles or adversarial whiteboard exercises, and we give you specific constructive feedback wherever possible.

Angaza | Android Developer | SF | ONSITE https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/

Angaza enables businesses to bring off-grid energy to emerging markets. Your day's work means more families turning on electricity for the first time that night:

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

We're a for-profit company, post-series A, with our technical team based in San Francisco. Right now, we're looking to add a developer focused on Android. Our mobile software is used by agents selling and servicing off-grid solar installations in more than a dozen countries. You can lead its development as we continue to rapidly expand.

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/ [San Francisco]

We're also hiring a number of other roles in Nairobi, e.g.:

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/director-of-sales/ [San Francisco + Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/senior-account-manager/ [Nairobi]

Our hiring process typically involves a phone conversation, a small home project, and an on-site interview. We don't believe in gotcha logic puzzles or adversarial whiteboard exercises, and we give you specific constructive feedback wherever possible.

Angaza | Mobile | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza enables businesses to sell off-grid energy systems in emerging markets. Your work during the day means more families turning on electricity for the first time that night:

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

We're a for-profit company, post-series A, and are hiring technical roles in San Francisco, including a senior Android engineer. Our mobile software is used by agents selling and servicing off-grid solar installations in more than a dozen countries. It's a small engineering team. You can lead development of our mobile software as we continue to rapidly expand.

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/android-developer/ [San Francisco]

We're also hiring many roles in Nairobi, e.g.:

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/director-of-sales/ [San Francisco + Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/senior-account-manager/ [Nairobi]

Our hiring process involves a phone conversation, on-site interviews, and a bounded home project. We strive to be thoughtful and inclusive. We provide specific feedback on your project, and we don't give whiteboard code challenges or logic puzzles.

Angaza | Frontend; Backend; & more | San Francisco and Nairobi [ONSITE]

Angaza enables businesses to sell off-grid energy systems in emerging markets.

Here, when you build a better product during the day, more families will turn on electricity for the first time that night.

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/frontend-developer/ [San Francisco]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/backend-developer/ [San Francisco]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/director-of-sales/ [San Francisco + Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/senior-account-manager/ [Nairobi]

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/technical-customer-support-speci... [Nairobi]

Angaza | Frontend; Product | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza enables businesses to sell off-grid energy systems in emerging markets.

Here, when you build a better product during the day, more families will turn on electricity for the first time that night.

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- https://www.angaza.com/jobs/product-manager/

Angaza | Frontend; Product Management | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza enables off-grid energy in emerging markets: build a better product during the day, and more families can turn on electricity for the first time that night.

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/product-manager/

Angaza | Frontend; Product | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza enables off-grid energy in emerging markets.

Build a better product during the day, and more families will turn on electricity for the first time that night.

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/product-manager/

Angaza | Frontend; Product | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Build a better product during the day, and more families will gain electricity for the first time that night.

Angaza enables consumer financing of off-grid energy solutions in emerging markets:

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/product-manager/

Angaza | Frontend, Backend | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Your impact at Angaza: write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

We are a for-profit technology company that enables end-user financing of energy solutions in emerging markets.

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

Angaza | Frontend, Backend | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza offers a billion people a way to access electricity for the first time, using solar power, for less money than they spend today.

Your impact at Angaza: write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

We are a for-profit technology company that enables end-user financing of energy solutions in emerging markets. More information about us and our open positions:

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

Angaza | Frontend, Mobile, Backend | San Francisco [ONSITE]

Angaza makes it possible for a billion people to access electricity for the first time, using solar power, for less money than they spend today. Our six-person engineering team develops technology that enables end-user financing for a range of energy products in emerging markets like Africa and India.

Your daily impact at Angaza will be immediate and obvious: write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

More information about Angaza and our open positions:

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl....

Angaza | Mobile, Frontend, Backend | San Francisco ONSITE

Angaza makes it possible for a billion people to access electricity for the first time, using solar power, for less money than they spend today. We develop technology that enables end-user financing for a range of energy products in emerging markets like Africa and India.

Join our six-person engineering team, and your daily impact at Angaza will be genuine and immediate: write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

More information about Angaza and our open positions:

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/23/angaza-raises-4m-to-make-cl...

Angaza | Backend, Frontend, Mobile | San Francisco ONSITE

Angaza makes it possible for a billion people to access electricity for the first time, using solar power, for less money than they spend today. We do that by completely redefining how solar systems are purchased and financed in emerging markets like Africa and India.

Our engineering team is small—now six people—so your daily impact is genuine and immediate. Write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

More information about our open positions:

- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

Angaza | Backend, Frontend, Mobile | San Francisco ONSITE

Angaza makes it possible for a billion people to access electricity for the first time, using solar power, for less money than they spend today. We do that by completely redefining how solar systems are purchased and financed in emerging markets like Africa and India.

Our engineering team is small—now six people—so your daily impact is genuine and immediate. Write better software during the day, and more families will have electricity for the first time that night.

More information about our open positions:

- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

As the article notes, module technology and module costs are no longer the most significant barrier to solar adoption---so if you're in software, the greatest opportunities to have significant impact are probably in tearing down the numerous _other_ barriers to widespread adoption.

To use the situation I'm most familiar with: there are hundreds of millions of people in emerging economies who live off-grid and spend tens of billions of dollars annually on expensive fuel-based energy. They'll switch to solar tomorrow if we [1] can solve the problem of upfront financing [2]. It's the same problem that SolarCity, Sunrun, et al. are tackling in the US. This problem is the kind that gets solved by, among other things, developing the same kind of enterprise-targeted mobile/web/backend/data systems familiar to any developer at a modern SaaS company (but targeting a different, unusually interesting and important market, with some unique challenges).

[1] https://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/selling-ener...

Angaza | Backend, Frontend, Mobile | San Francisco ONSITE

Angaza is a for-profit company that makes it possible for a billion people—the off-grid world that still burns kerosene for light—to make the move to solar energy while gaining access to electricity and increasing their buying power.

Specifically, we build technology that allows solar energy solutions to be financed for off-grid consumers, including everything from rooftop installations down to portable LED devices. To do so, Angaza develops a mix of custom hardware and software, built on the Python ecosystem, and we operate in some of the most demanding and dynamic markets in the world, including Africa and India.

More information about our open positions:

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

Angaza | Backend, Frontend, and/or Mobile Developers | San Francisco ONSITE

Angaza is a for-profit company that makes it possible for a billion people—the off-grid world that still burns kerosene for light—to make the move to solar energy, while gaining access to electricity and increasing their buying power.

Specifically, we build technology that allows solar energy solutions to be financed for off-grid consumers, including everything from rooftop installations down to portable LED devices. To do so, Angaza develops a mix of custom hardware and software, built on the Python ecosystem, and we operate in some of the most demanding and dynamic markets in the world, including Africa and India.

More information about our open positions:

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/frontend-developer/

- http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/android-developer/

- http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/

That's great! And it's not even an exceptional case. There are lots of tech-related companies with an explicit social and developing-world focus, including many in SF---such as our company, Angaza, which makes it possible for emerging-market consumers to get much more energy for much less money through decentralized solar

http://www.angazadesign.com/watch-video/ (obligatory: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/company/angaza/)

and many, many others, e.g.

https://welldone.org/ http://saner.gy/ http://wecyclers.com/ http://www.allpowerlabs.com/ ...

not to mention areas of "SF tech proper" with a direct positive impact, such as medtech or cleantech.

San Francisco | Angaza | Backend Developer - ONSITE

Angaza builds technology to solve global energy poverty: we enable solar energy solutions to be financed for off-grid consumers. To do so, Angaza develops a mix of custom hardware and software---built on the Python ecosystem---for some of the most demanding and dynamic markets in the world, including Africa and India. We are a for-profit company, based in California and Kenya, that aims market forces at the linked challenges of climate change and global development.

More information about our backend dev position: http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/backend-developer/

SF [not remote] - Angaza - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is tackling both global poverty and climate change through a single focus: building a new energy economy for the billion+ people in off-grid markets. These markets are leapfrogging conventional centralized energy generation, becoming the center of development for the distributed renewable systems that will replace it. Software for integrated metering, finance, and payments makes this development possible.

Angaza is hiring a software engineer to join our team in San Francisco. Your challenges may include extending and scaling our backend platform for payments and analytics; taking our HTML5+JS frontend to the next level; designing synchronization protocols for highly constrained channels; squeezing DSP code into fewer bytes than this paragraph; and traveling occasionally to field sites across the world.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and an equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/software-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

SF - Angaza - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is tackling both global poverty and climate change through a single focus: building a new energy economy for the billion+ people in off-grid markets. These markets are leapfrogging conventional centralized energy generation, becoming the center of development for the distributed renewable systems that will replace it. Software for integrated metering, finance, and payments makes this development possible.

Angaza is hiring a software engineer to join our team in San Francisco. Your challenges may include extending and scaling our backend platform for payments and analytics; taking our HTML5+JS frontend to the next level; designing synchronization protocols for highly constrained channels; squeezing DSP code into fewer bytes than this paragraph; and traveling occasionally to field sites across the world.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and an equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/software-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

SF - Angaza - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is building a new energy economy for the billion+ people in off-grid markets, with East Africa our focus. These markets are leapfrogging conventional centralized energy generation, becoming the center of development for the distributed renewable systems that will replace it. Software for integrated metering, finance, and payments makes this development possible.

Angaza is searching for a software engineer to join our team in San Francisco. Your challenges may include extending and scaling our backend platform for payments and analytics; taking our HTML5+JS frontend to the next level; designing synchronization protocols for highly constrained channels; squeezing DSP code into fewer bytes than this paragraph; and traveling occasionally to field sites across the world.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/software-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

San Francisco, CA - Angaza Design - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is building a new energy economy for the billion+ people in off-grid markets, with East Africa our focus. These markets are leapfrogging conventional centralized energy generation, becoming the center of development for the resilient, distributed, renewable energy systems that will replace it. Robust low-cost metering, financing, and payment technologies form the key to making those systems possible.

Angaza is searching for a software engineer to join our team in San Francisco. You will tackle a myriad of software challenges: extending and scaling our payments / analytics backend platform; taking our HTML5+JS frontend to the next level; designing new protocols for synchronization over highly constrained channels; developing software for minimum-cost international telecom; squeezing DSP code into fewer bytes than this paragraph; traveling occasionally to field sites across the world; and helping to solve any of the unforeseen challenges that emerge in a rapidly changing startup environment.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/software-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

Note the key roles of financing, payment platforms, and software. It's not just about LEDs and cheap photovoltaics: in almost every project mentioned, the users prepay for energy through electronic cash transfers (directly from their phone), and the systems are profitable to run. The primary barriers to adoption are (i) upfront financing and (ii) software for managing these systems at scale. There are at least several SF-area companies working on hardware and software for the off-grid energy market, including ours (http://www.angazadesign.com/ - we're hiring). It's an exciting area.

San Francisco, CA - Angaza Design - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is building a new energy economy for the billion+ people who now live off-grid. These markets are moving beyond conventional centralized grid generation, becoming the center of development for the resilient, distributed, renewable energy systems that will replace it. Robust low-cost metering, financing, and payment technologies form the key to making those systems possible.

Angaza is searching for a software engineer to join our team in San Francisco. You will tackle a myriad of software challenges: extending and scaling our payments / analytics backend platform; taking our HTML5+JS frontend to the next level; designing new protocols for synchronization over highly constrained channels; developing software for minimum-cost international telecom; squeezing DSP code into fewer bytes than this paragraph; traveling occasionally to field sites across the world; and helping to solve any of the unforeseen challenges that emerge in a rapidly changing startup environment.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/software-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

Palo Alto, CA - Angaza Design - http://www.angazadesign.com/

Angaza is building a new energy economy for the billion+ people who now live off-grid, with East Africa as our initial market. These markets are moving beyond conventional centralized grid generation, becoming the center of development for the resilient, distributed, renewable energy systems that will replace it. Robust low-cost metering, financing, and payment technologies form the key to making those systems possible.

We are a technology company for an unconventional market, a market that demands unconventional technology solutions. Angaza is looking for a talented electrical engineer to join our team in the SF Bay Area. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing hardware for intelligent solar energy generation; supporting ongoing manufacturing; assisting with firmware development; contributing to collaborative research in low-cost distributed metering, including novel digital communication systems; traveling occasionally to field sites across the world; and helping to solve any of the unforeseen and exciting challenges that emerge in a rapidly changing startup environment.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. See http://www.angazadesign.com/jobs/electrical-engineer/ and contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.

Angaza Design - http://www.angazadesign.com/ - Palo Alto, CA

Angaza develops energy metering and payment solutions for the billion+ people living off-grid, initially targeting East Africa. These markets are moving beyond conventional centralized grid generation, becoming the center of development for the resilient, distributed, renewable energy systems that will replace it. Robust low-cost metering, financing, and payment technologies form the key to making those systems possible.

We are a technology company for an unconventional market, a market that demands unconventional technology solutions.

Angaza is looking for a talented electrical engineer to join our team in Palo Alto, California. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing hardware for intelligent solar energy generation; supporting ongoing manufacturing; assisting with firmware development; contributing to collaborative research in low-cost distributed metering, including novel digital communication systems; traveling occasionally to field sites across the world; and helping to solve any of the unforeseen and exciting challenges that emerge in a rapidly changing startup environment.

If hired, you will become part of a small team creating a new approach to energy in emerging markets. You will receive both a salary and equity stake in the company. Contact us at careers@angazadesign.com.