Nigeria Tech Specialist (Fixed-term)

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

The Tech Specialist will own the end-to-end technical delivery of our field and internal solutions. You will use approved AI coding tools and development agents to accelerate architecture, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Responsibilities

Product & Software Development — 40%

• Design, build, and maintain mobile, web, backend, and data solutions.
• Develop reliable digital workflows that support both online and offline use.
• Build scalable, maintainable features that support operational and business requirements.
• Integrate systems, data, and services to deliver a seamless user experience.

Architecture & Data — 20%

• Integrate systems, data, and services to deliver a seamless user experience.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and ongoing evolution of the platform.
• Design secure and scalable data models, APIs, and integration patterns.
• Ensure reliable data synchronization, validation, and consistency across systems.

Engineering Productivity & AI — 10%

• Support the platform’s growth from early-stage deployment to large-scale operations.
• Use modern development tools, including approved AI-assisted engineering tools, to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Apply strong engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Review and validate all code and technical outputs before production release.

Security, Quality & Reliability — 20%

• Follow secure software development and data-protection practices.
• Implement appropriate access controls, auditability, monitoring, and operational safeguards.
• Develop and maintain automated testing and deployment processes.
• Support reliable releases, system performance, issue resolution, backup, and recovery.

Collaboration & Delivery — 10%

• Translate product and business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations, and other stakeholders throughout delivery.
• Support testing, pilots, production launches, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain clear technical documentation and support effective knowledge transfer.

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience and 3 years of experience delivering production full-stack applications.
• Advanced full-stack engineering across mobile, web, backend, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong experience with Flutter, React Native, Kotlin, or another Android-capable framework.
• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, or a comparable web framework.
• Strong backend experience using TypeScript/Node.js, Python, Java, C#/.NET, Go, or a comparable production stack.
• Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, backups, recovery, and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to implement automated unit, integration, API, mobile, and end-to-end tests.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI coding tools safely and productively.
• Strong technical documentation and knowledge-transfer capabilities.

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Minna, Nigeria.

Benefits

Health insurance, paid time off 

Contract Duration

2 years

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Nigeria.

Application Deadline

24 November 2026. Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.