About Us:
At Amini, we’re reimagining AI for the Global South. By combining sovereign data, local
infrastructure, and cutting-edge AI, we’re helping 4 billion people connect to the digital
economy and unlock new opportunities for growth. Join us in shaping the world’s most
inclusive AI revolution.
Our core values of Collaboration, Innovation, Trust, Integrity, Humility, and Passion are at
the heart of everything we do.
Our team embodies inclusivity, diversity, agility, and dynamism. Comprising highly skilled
experts, we recognize the transformational nature of our work while remaining humble, ego-free,
and non-hierarchical. We believe in fully utilizing our skills and experiences, sharing ideas, and
making a collective impact to drive change and positively influence the AI industry and billions of lives.
About the Role
Join us in building applications that are not only beautiful to use, but grounded in solid
engineering and scalable architecture. We’re looking for a seasoned front-end–focused
engineer who can design and deliver robust web and mobile applications while shaping the
frameworks, tooling, and patterns that make application development across the organization
faster, more consistent, and easier to maintain.
You’ll lead the creation of a design-to-deployment pipeline for web applications — starting
from a design kit provided by UI/UX designers (or your own designs), through reusable, tested
UI components, to integrated, production-ready apps — enabling both engineers and
forward-deployed technical teams to create high-quality applications with minimal friction.
Beyond delivering individual apps, you will establish architectural guidelines, coding
standards, and shared components that allow our application layer to scale without sacrificing
quality.
You will work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure applications
integrate seamlessly with our platform APIs, geospatial systems, and AI outputs.
The ideal candidate blends deep knowledge of modern front-end engineering with strong
software design fundamentals and a platform mindset, thinking about reuse, maintainability,
and developer experience from the very start.
Responsibilities
• Architect, build, and maintain web and mobile applications that are performant,
secure, and scalable.
• Design and evolve our self-service application development platform, including
reusable UI components, internal frameworks, developer tooling, and documentation.
• Build and maintain a shared UI component library integrated with design kits and
discoverable through tools like Storybook.
• Develop API playgrounds and developer portals to make our platform capabilities
easily accessible to internal and external developers.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate designs into accessible, pixel-perfect,
and responsive interfaces.
• Integrate applications with geospatial data, AI model outputs, and other complex
datasets.
• Establish and champion architectural best practices, accessibility standards, coding
guidelines, and performance benchmarks.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
Technical Skills and Knowledge
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a focus on front-end
application development.
• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and
application architecture.
• Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and at least one modern front-end framework
(Svelte, React, Vue , etc).
• Strong experience with design systems and component-driven development.
• Strong understanding of responsive design, accessibility standards, and UI
performance optimization.
• Proven experience building and integrating APIs.
• Experience with CI/CD workflows, containerized deployments (Docker), and cloud
platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Demonstrated ability to design systems for reuse, maintainability, and scalability.
• Excellent communication skills — able to explain architectural trade-offs to technical
and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
• UI/UX design skills or experience collaborating closely with design teams.
• Experience with geospatial frameworks (Mapbox GL, Leaflet, OpenLayers, etc) or
working with GIS data.
• Familiarity with developer tooling for design systems and component-driven
development (Storybook, Chromatic, etc).
• Experience with mobile app development (React Native, Capacitor, Flutter, etc).
• Prior work on internal developer platforms, design systems, or application
frameworks.
• Knowledge of WebGL, D3.js, or other visualization libraries.
• Experience in climate, sustainability, or data-for-good domains.
If you're a collaborative, resourceful professional looking to work alongside exceptional
individuals, we invite you to apply and join us in shaping the future of AI
What We Do
At Amini, we are committed to making a difference for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We are a dynamic, fast-growing deep tech startup. We are building environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt. Amini is at the forefront of cutting-edge technology, utilizing Geospatial Data and AI / Machine Learning capabilities to solve environmental data scarcity for countries in the global south. Everyone at Amini knows how their work enables the realization of our vision. Without them and their contribution, we will not be a whole team, and we will not complete our mission. Every person at Amini knows that they matter and their work makes a difference — a difference to our company, a difference to our customers, and a difference to communities across Africa and the global south.
Our team embodies inclusivity, diversity, agility, and dynamism. Comprising highly skilled experts, we recognize the transformational nature of our work while remaining humble, ego-free, and non-hierarchical.
We believe in our mission to build an environmental data infrastructure for Africa and the tropical belt to solve environmental data scarcity for countries in the global south.
We believe in our vision of Africa being a catalyst for global transformation and creating opportunities for over 1 billion lives.
We believe in our collective strength and talents - we have the brightest brains creating a leading edge platform and products, utilising AI to deliver the largest combined catalogue of satellite and ground truth data available for the tropical belt.
We believe in each other – We work together to achieve outstanding results. Amini’s people are great to work with, always inclusive, generous, quick to learn, energetic and fun, never bureaucratical or ego driven.
We believe our future is cosmic – We have huge, ambitious plans and the excitement about the impact our company can make and how we can enable the global south is off the charts.
