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THE CHALLENGE

1.4 59                   M
software jobs went unfilled
in 2016
                                is the average number of days
                                to hire a software developer
                                                                   41                 %
                                                                   of engineers say their
                                                                   top hiring challenge
                                                                                                         TIME CONSUMING INTERVIEWS, A SHORTAGE OF QUALIFIED
                                                                                                         CANDIDATES, AND A LACK OF DIVERSITY ARE THREE OF THE
                                                                                                         TOP HIRING CHALLENGES IDENTIFIED BY 36,000 ENGINEERS IN
                                                                                                         A 2018 SURVEY BY HACKERRANK. To address these, many
                                in the U.S.                        is a lack of candidates.              companies are going distributed, which allows them to expand
                                                                                                         their talent pool while attracting the 53.3% of developers who

THE TREND                                                                                                prefer to work remotely. InVisionApp is a 100% distributed

64                              53                                 ⅔
                                                                                                         company that has bypassed the developer shortage by hiring

                  %                                %                                                     employees in 27 countries across the world, including Nigeria,
                                                                                                         Kenya, and Uganda.

of developers                   of developers said                 of employers report
work remotely at least          remote options are a               increased productivity
part-time                       top priority when job searching.   among remote employees

ABOUT ANDELA Andela helps companies build high-performing, distributed engineering teams with Africa's
most talented software developers. Based in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, Andela developers work as full-time,
remote engineers with leading technology firms around the world.
                                                                                                                                               Mbithe Nzomo
                                                                                                                                    D2 PYTHON DEVELOPER, NAIROBI
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                                                                                              Partner Profile
                                                                                              INVISIONAPP
                                                                                                FOUNDED      2011                  EMPLOYEES       600
                                                                                                FUNDING      $
                                                                                                              235M                    LOCATION     Worldwide
                                                                                              TECH STACK

                                                                                              In August of 2017, InVisionApp, a digital product design platform powering the

                                                                                              world’s best customer experiences, partnered with Andela to build third-party
Introducing a new crew of “InVisioneers” at Andela’s HQ in Lagos, Nigeria in December 2017.
                                                                                              integrations with collaboration tools and flat prototype assets that are used for

                                                                                              design.
I truly believe that distributed work is the wave of the future. You aren't
bound by geography when you are distributed. If you are in San                                InVisionApp already had employees based in 23 countries, so it was a no-brainer

Francisco, you have a small pool - my pool is endless!"                                       to add Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda as 24 through 26. With a remote-first mindset

                                                                                              firmly established, the InVision/Andela partnership took off quickly, starting with
            Dana Lawson                                                                       four Andela developers on two teams and growing to ten developers across six
             VP Platform Engineering InVision
                                                                                              teams today.
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                                                                           Developer Profile
                                                                           MURPHY ENAHO
                                                                            D2
                                                                                                                    @daguru007
                                                                                     Javscript,PREN
                                                                                     LAGOS, NIGERIA
                                                                                                                    enahomurphy

                                                                           Murphy joined InVision in June of 2017 as a       ON DISTRIBUTED TEAMS

                                                                           member InVision’s Core Engineering team.          “Working for a distributed
                                                                           Murphy was brought on specifically to             company has been awesome.
                                                                                                                             Communication is key in working
                                                                           create endpoints in a Node service to
                                                                                                                             together -- Slack is our office.”
                                                                           support an internal admin tool.

                                                                           Quickly mastering this, he was given              ON GROWTH AT INVISION
                                                                           broader feature work, then moved on to
There is a lot of trust there. With 30-40 microservices across 10 teams,                                                     “Working with InVision has
                                                                           front-end tasks using React and Angular,          evolved my approach to problem
it’s complicated! The team’s trust is a testament to Murphy’s curiosity                                                      solving and allowed me to explore
                                                                           and picked up Go along the way. In the past
and willingness to ask questions.”                                                                                           things that I’ve been curious
                                                                           year, he has gained extensive knowledge of
                                                                                                                             about, like software architecture.
         Kristina Kemmer                                                   the product and is able to take on any            Since being at InVision, I’m one
         Engineering Manager InVision                                      ticket within the InVision repos.                 step closer to owning my own
                                                                                                                             craft in architecture engineering.”
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InVisionApp + Andela
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                                                      BLACK TEAM

                                                                     JEREMY WIGHT            AZEEZ             RUKKIE
                                                                     Engineering Manager     D1, Javascript    D4, Javascript
                                                                     South Carolina, U.S.A   Lagos, Nigeria    Lagos, Nigeria

                                                       GOLD TEAM
                                                                     KRISTINA KEMMER         MURPHY            TOMMIE
                                                                     Engineering Manager     D1, Javascript    D3, Javascript
                                                                     Colorado, U.S.A.        Lagos, Nigeria    Lagos, Nigeria

        MN                                           ORANGE TEAM
   OR
                  MA
                                                                     MICHAEL DOUGLAS         ADEBAYO
        CO   SC
                                                                     Engineering Manager     D3, Javascript
                                                                     Massachusetts, U.S.A    Lagos, Nigeria

                                                        INTERNAL
                                                      TOOLS TEAM
                                                                     CRYSTAL POOLE           ADELEKE
                                                                     Engineering Manager     D4, Javascript
                       Lagos                                         Oregon, U.S.A.          Lagos, Nigeria
                               Kampala   Nairobi

                                                      MARKETING
                                                     ENGINEERING
                                                           TEAM      ROBBIE MANALO           EVANS
                                                                     Engineering Manager     D1, Javascript
                                                                     Minnesota, U.S.A.       Nairobi, Kenya

                                                   SITERELIABILITY
                                                             TEAM
                                                                                             DANIEL
                                                                     KAYA WINN
                                                                                             D1, DevOps
                                                                     Engineering Manager
                                                                                             Kampala, Uganda
                                                                     Oregon, U.S.A.
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TOP RIGHT   Andela’s InVisioneers and VP Platform Engineering, Dana Lawson, celebrating a great week together in Lagos.
TOP LEFT   InVisioneers during a typical meeting on Zoom, one of the many tools that make distributed teams work.
                                      BOTTOM RIGHT   A portion of the InVision team enjoying a hike during a full-company off-site in Los Angeles, CA.
BOTTOM LEFT   Michael Douglas, Orange Team Engineering Manager, calling in remotely to an InVision team meeting in Lagos, Nigeria.
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              iOS    Swift

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