Senior Software Engineer (Frontend, Backend and Full-Stack) (Remote)

Helium Health is accelerating Africa’s transition to a technology and data-driven healthcare sector. We provide a suite of solutions that serve as the digital infrastructure for all healthcare stakeholders in Africa: providers, payers, patients & governments.

We are looking to hire Senior Frontend, Backend and Full-Stack Software Engineers who will be responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of applications. 

Frontend Engineer

• Collaborate with product managers, designers and developers to conceptualize and build new products, features and changes that’ll radically improve user experience

• Write well-documented code for features, tests and other front-end web and mobile application components 

• Ensure the front-end web and mobile applications work well across all target platforms 

• Work closely with back-end developers to continuously improve our ability to deliver awesome front-end web and mobile experiences 

• Work with internal and external stakeholders; motivating, persuading, and negotiating towards a positive outcome.

Interested candidates must have the following;

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer

• Good knowledge of any modern framework like React, Vue, Angular or Ember

• Good knowledge of HTML5 and CSS3 APIs

• Experience in styling with solutions like Styled Components/CSS Modules/PostCSS/Sass/Less

• Experience with modern front-end workflows: git flow, project management tools, unit and E2E testing, build tools, REST APIs, CLIs, CI/CD

• Managing complex application state with Redux/Vue

Backend Engineer

• Support and maintain existing production code in the field and develop and deliver new enhancements and products to our client base. 

• Collaborate with product management, operations, quality and front-end engineers to deliver the right solution. 

• Develop reliable, high performance service applications using Elixir, Phoenix and PHP. 

• Provision, configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS. 

Interested candidates must have the following;

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 3 - 6 years of professional experience with Elixir/PHP or similar languages 

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with our API 

• Building reusable code and libraries for future use 

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

• Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability 

• Separation of centralised services into micro services 

• Experience with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible/Chef/Puppet or similar tools 

• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software. 

• Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis) 

• Good oral and written communication skills