Senior Software Engineer, GFI Software (Nairobi) - $60,000/year USD

GFI offers an award-winning suite of must-have network security and communication software products that are distributed through our well-established partners. We are looking for a highly skilled Solution Architect who will ensure that GFI products are the go-to solution for small and medium businesses.

As a C or C++ network security expert who loves hands-on coding, you will enjoy this strategic position in which you will empower Product Managers to define product roadmaps, help Support Leaders to troubleshoot highly complex product issues, enable our Partners and Resellers with the high-quality solutions.

Your end goal is to enable all GFI customers to take advantage of the high-end network security products to ensure secure and safe business operations. GFI software enables SMB clients with simple-to-use and featured solutions. You’ll commit to the company mission by:

• Product Roadmap Reviews - participate in product roadmap ideation, challenge Product Manager specs
• Troubleshooting complex Client problems - collect required evidence, locate the problem, debug software, deliver RCA to Engineers
• Coding New Product Feature - analyze specs, do high-quality coding for high-performance apps
• Making Product Certification - create environments, test the functionality of the critical/affected app
• Performing Product Risk Assessment - analyze third-party risks to our products, define mitigation solution

• Wasting your brainpower on routine solution implementations - this is not a consultancy or client billable work

• Product Architecture - documented and worked CI/CD pipelines, managed third-party dependencies, managed 99.99x% SaaS environments
• Product Development - bug-free features rolled out to production
• Support - have representative environments, have 0 backlogs of the complex unresolved client issues
• Product Management - 100% risk assessed product roadmap, releases certified on various configurations 

• At least 3 years of professional C/C++ programming experience