Careers

Not hiring.
Still listening.

Noxera is one person with a laptop in Nairobi, and that is not a stage on the way to something — it is the shape of the studio. There is no open role, no shortlist and no pipeline. There is a set that stays switched on, and a band with a few things on it worth knowing about the work here.

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Slow

Someone who opens the thing they just built on a cheap phone, on a bundle they paid for themselves, before they call it done. Not a simulator with the network throttled. The actual phone.

Fast on good internet is not a result. Fast on bad internet is the whole job.

Plain

Someone who can say what they built to the person paying for it, without a glossary, and without making them feel small for asking a second time.

If the client cannot repeat back what it does, it has not been explained yet.

Finish

Someone who cares about the last tenth — the error message, the empty state, the line that confirms exactly what just happened and what it cost.

That tenth is where the client lives every day, long after launch week.

Keys

Someone who hands everything over gladly. Accounts in the client's name, passwords theirs, code theirs, no quiet copy kept in case the relationship ends.

Lock-in is not a business model here. Handing over is part of the job, not a favour.

Here

Someone who builds for M-PESA, for WhatsApp as the normal way to talk, for a power cut halfway through a form, and for a phone that is the only computer in the house.

Kenya is not a constraint to design around. It is the brief.

Dead air

Nothing on this frequency. No vacancy, no shortlist, no quiet collection of details against a role that does not exist.

When that changes, this page changes, and it will say so in plain words rather than in a job title.

Straight answers

What this page is not

  • Not an open role. Not one, and not the “we are always looking for great people” version of not one either.
  • Not a salary band. There is no role to attach a number to, so there is no number, and inventing one would be the first lie you read here.
  • Not an application form. Spending an evening filling in a form that goes into a folder nobody opens is a bad trade, so there is no form.
  • Not a talent pool. Nothing you send is being filed against a future vacancy or added to a list.
  • Not silence. Write, and a reply comes from the person who writes the code, not from a template.

Still listening

Say hello anyway

A CV sent into a studio with no vacancy is a wasted attachment. Something you built, something you broke and then understood, or a straight question about how the work here is done — those are worth sending, and they get read.

This is one person's inbox in Nairobi, so a reply can take a few days. It will come from him, and it will be an answer rather than an acknowledgement.