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Client: Asante Cocoa Co-operativeAgricultural co-operative · Kumasi
Co-op office, Adum, Kumasi · Earnest, careful
The Asante Cocoa Co-operative pays 900 farmers on the 15th. Their accountant, Mr. Boakye, retired to his village and his phone doesn't reach. So do the keys to every payroll file.
Who you'll work with
Ada MensahYour lead
Engineering Lead
Dry, warm underneath, short sentences. Notices how you did. Never gushes.
Obaa Yaa Asantewaa
Chair, Asante Cocoa Co-operative
Firm, fair, knows every farmer's name.
Tunde Bakare
Senior Developer
Friendly rival. Competitive banter, always generous in the end.
The client's system
Retired keys
Unknown-key shifts on the member list, single-byte XOR on bank files, and Vigenère with a short key on the harvest tallies.
6 tickets in the sequence · every developer gets unique keys and tests · the rules come out in the tickets
Opens in
…- Pay / ticket
- 20–45
- Band
- 400–1,999
- Scored tickets
- 6
- Your time
- 96h
0 devs on this contract
Performance bonus · top 10
+90 gems to 1st
- #1+90
- #2+60
- #3+45
- #4+18
- #5+18
- #6–10+18 each
Ship 2+ tickets for a +8 completion bonus.
The shortlist stays hidden until wrap-up. Only the first 6 tickets count.