Wastezon
Full Stack Engineering Fellow
About the Organization:
Wastezon is a Rwanda-based cleantech social enterprise advancing the circular economy through AI, materials science, and community-based e-waste recovery. We extend the life of electronics through collection, repair, refurbishment, and recovery of valuable materials.
With operations across Rwanda, Wastezon has engaged tens of thousands of households, recovered and refurbished 1,400+ tonnes of e-waste, and built a network of 150+ community agents and technicians. Our model creates green jobs while making technology more affordable and reducing the environmental impact of electronic waste.
We are now advancing toward urban mining, using AI and materials science to trace, identify, and recover valuable secondary materials from discarded electronics.
Fellowship Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated Full-Stack Engineering Fellow to help build, improve, and scale Wastezon's digital products and technology infrastructure. The Fellow will work across the frontend, backend, databases, APIs, and integrations that power our circular-economy platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain responsive web and mobile applications.
Build scalable backend services, APIs, and database architectures.
Integrate third-party services, APIs, AI tools, and data systems.
Develop dashboards for tracking e-waste collection, refurbishment, materials recovery, and impact.
Improve platform performance, reliability, security, and user experience.
Collaborate with product, operations, and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
Conduct testing, debugging, code reviews, and deployment.
Support the development of data and AI-enabled features for Wastezon's circular-economy platform.
Contribute to technical documentation and software development standards.
Qualifications:
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or similar programming languages.
Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next.js, or Vue.
Experience developing backend applications and RESTful APIs.
Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases.
Understanding of Git, version control, testing, and deployment workflows.
Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerization is an advantage.
Interest or experience in AI, data engineering, IoT, or climate technology is a strong advantage.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a multidisciplinary team.
A portfolio, GitHub profile, or previous software projects is highly desirable.
Time Commitment: 25 hours per week