Senior Software Developer at eHealth Systems Africa

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

Job 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.
• Keywords: JavaScript, Python, Git, ReactJS, AngularJS, AJAX, CSS3

Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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