American global innovation organization, Microsoft is opening a new office in Lagos.
Declaring the improvement on Twitter, a staff member of the tech organization, Alex Kipman, said Microsoft is opening another office in Nigeria to build Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence.
In his tweet, Kipman who’s a Microsoft Technical Fellow and the co-maker of HoloLens gave a connection cap peruses: Apply for Software Engineer with Microsoft in Lagos.
Excited to share that our team is opening an engineering office in Africa to build #MixedReality and #AI. We are going to be based in Lagos, Nigeria. You can apply for roles here: https://t.co/wFJzUbIl3k … looking forward to my first visit soon [)-)
— Alex Kipman (@akipman) March 8, 2019
Notwithstanding, keeping an eye on the connection expresses the advantages and livens, obligations and capabilities required for the activity.
The obligations incorporate the followings:
- 3+ years’ experience in Software Engineering
- Experience building, releasing, and supporting applications or services in a modern programming language using a common application or services stack
- Experience shipping cloud services, networked applications or distributed systems
- Proven track record of multidisciplinary capabilities
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience working with distributed engineering teams
- Proven track record working with concurrent programming concepts like asynchronous operations, distributed consensus and parallelism preferred but not required
- Experience with Kubernetes & Golang preferred but not required.
However, there’s no any academic requirement for the job. This is a testament that tech companies like Microsoft don’t care about degree certificates but candidates skills.
Meanwhile, on other Tech News;
Nigerian retail lending startup, Paylater has secured a $5 million debt facility and has plans to transition to a full-service digital bank. The debt facility was provided by Nairobi-based Lendable, a technology-enabled funding provider to African consumer and small business lenders. Paylater is a unit of OneFi which started in 2011 as One Credit.
Google announced the establishment of 18 new Womenwill chapters in Southern Africa. Womenwill is an initiative that helps women build their digital skill set by providing training and events for women to attend. The addition of these 18 new chapters of the Womenwill initiative means there are now 25 chapters across Africa.
Ventureburn has published a list of startup events in Africa this week that you may be interested in. The events include Seamless Africa 2019 in Cape Town, African Islamic Fintech Summit in Tunisia and Finnovation Ethiopia 2019 in Addis Ababa. You can check the full list here.
Six Nigerian firms have been licensed to enrol Nigerians in the diaspora for the National identity programme underway in the country. According to Technology Times, the firms are: Biosec Solutions Limited, CHAMS Consortium Limited, Defcon Systems Limited, National eAuthentication Limited, Thebez Global Resources and Venn Technology Limited.
Cell C’s annual Take a Girl Child to Work initiative in South Africa has introduced a digital support platform. CellCgirl is an interactive, digital and social media platform that provides 365 days of inspiration and support to girls through educational, economic and employment resources and links to bursaries and internships. It also acts as a forum for advice, CV creation and career guidance.