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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">About Fika</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Fika exists to innovate cost-effective rural infrastructural solutions through advocacy, evidence and technical assistance to promote safe access for geographically isolated communities through partnership with governments and donors.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">We provide flexible work arrangements, comprehensive mental and physical wellness support, and annual salary reviews aligned with our compensation policy. Additionally, we offer opportunities for professional growth, allowing individuals to shape their own career paths through targeted development programs.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold\">Job purpose</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The Senior Design Engineer is an independent technical role responsible for the design, calculation and approval of bridge structures within Fika's standard portfolio. The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, carrying out structural calculations, producing technical drawings and specifications, and ensuring technical quality across Fika's bridge typologies including suspension, suspended and hybrid bridges and stone arch bridges.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"> This role is expected to work independently and exercise sound professional engineering judgement, requiring minimal day-to-day oversight from the Director of Engineering. 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