eHealth Africa is focused on improving healthcare by creating effective ways to implement reliable health information management systems. We have developed eHealth and mHealth solutions that can be rapidly deployed to manage patient information, streamline clinical procedures, and provide data and analysis on health program outcomes.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Senior Software Developer
Location: Kano, Nigeria
Department: Software Development
Type: Full Time
Summary
The Senior Developer is responsible for developing and supporting projects, functions and completing specific client work, projects and miscellaneous tasks.
This highly responsible position involves using established work procedures to analyse, design, develop, implement, maintain, re-engineer and troubleshoot applications.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Other duties may be assigned.
Directs technical aspects of operations related to client accounts or high severity issues
Participates in the evolution of company level software best practices, standards, and policies
Defines objectives by analyzing user requirements; envisioning system features and functionality
Works closely with developers and end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
Collaborates with product owners, technical architects and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web- and mobile-based applications
Provides thought-leadership as to emerging technologies and integrate them into business operations
Assist in estimation and assessment of feasibility of solutions for upcoming projects
Qualifications and Experience
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to successfully perform this job:
Bachelor’s Degree from college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Technology or related field. A postgraduate degree is desirable.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Development or an equivalent of education and experience
Well familiar with the whole software development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, etc)
Strong understanding of JavaScript, its module loaders and frameworks such as AngularJS and ReactJS
Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
Familiarity with front-end build tools, such as Grunt and Gulp.js
Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems and environments
Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
Strong unit test and debugging skills as well as proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git)
Desired: Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework
Familiarity with ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries and event-driven programming in Python
Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
Experience in creation and review of software and architecture designs
Language Ability:
English is the spoken and written language.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to interpret data that is not well defined or documented and develop recommendations based on findings.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.