# Senior Software Engineer

Living Goods is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Global Software Engineering team in Nairobi. You will take technical ownership of a product area within the platform, lead a small team of engineers delivering it, and remain hands-on throughout. You will decide how the area is built and record why, break the work down and sequence it, review what the team produces, and grow the engineers around you - while taking the hardest parts of the implementation yourself. This is a senior individual-contributor role with team leadership attached, not a move out of engineering. We expect roughly seventy percent of your time to be spent building and thirty percent leading, and the balance will shift with what the team is carrying - but building never drops out of it. Technical Leadership Responsibilities: Set the technical direction for your product area: decide the architecture, write the design down before the first ticket is cut, and record the decisions and the reasoning behind them. Lead a team of two to four engineers - break work down, sequence it against real dependencies, and clear what is blocking other people before your own tasks. Use code review as t

- **Id**: 4226063
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/living-goods-senior-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Nairobi, Kenya
- **Countries**: KE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-31T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-31T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 13
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- **Description chars**: 12983
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nonprofits & Foundations, Public Health & Prevention

## Company

- **Id**: 1849362
- **Name**: Living Goods
- **Domain**: livinggoods.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/livinggoods>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: JazzHR

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
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- **Git** — Optional: no
- **HL7** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Offline-First** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **WhatsApp** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **MVC** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 13

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T07:54:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 74
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.821
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:13, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T12:23:32Z

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