Graduate Software Engineer
Awash Bank · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
About the role
Join Awash Bank as a Graduate Software Engineer in Addis Ababa and help us ship reliable software that customers depend on.
Job description
Awash Bank is hiring a Graduate Software Engineer to join the team in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We're a growing organisation in our space and the next person in this seat will help us scale how we serve customers across the region.
You'll own end-to-end delivery of features in our core platform — from technical design through to production rollout. Our stack favours modern web technologies, clean APIs, and a strong testing culture, and we deploy multiple times a day behind feature flags.
This role is a fixed-term contract. You'll partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers and report into the relevant team lead. We move fast, give people real ownership, and keep the bureaucracy low — if that sounds like the kind of environment you do your best work in, we'd love to hear from you.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain features that ship to production every week behind a CI/CD pipeline.
- Pair with product managers and designers to scope work and translate requirements into clean technical solutions.
- Write well-tested, readable code and uphold quality through pull-request reviews.
- Investigate production incidents, find root causes, and put preventative monitoring in place.
- Contribute to architecture decisions for new services and migrations across the engineering org.
- Improve developer experience by refining tooling, build pipelines, and documentation.
What you'll need
- 2+ years of professional experience shipping production software.
- Strong fundamentals in at least one server-side language (Go, Python, Node, Java, PHP) and a modern frontend framework.
- Practical knowledge of relational databases, message queues, and HTTP-based APIs.
- Track record of debugging gnarly production issues and writing clear post-mortems.
- Excellent written communication — you can document decisions so the team understands them six months later.
Perks & benefits
- Generous paid leave plus all public holidays observed in your country
- Paid parental leave of 16 weeks for primary carers
- Wellness budget covering gym membership, therapy, or coaching
- Competitive base salary benchmarked to local senior market rates
- Annual learning budget you can spend on courses, books, or conferences