Backend Engineer (Elixir)

We are Helium Health…

A full-service Healthtech company on a journey to digitize healthcare across Africa. We have been doing this since 2016, and our pioneering approach has helped to transform healthcare delivery systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and the GCC, creating an alternative vision for patients and providers, whilst facilitating hundreds of thousands of high-quality patient experiences every month.

We are very good at creating for the market we live in, because we fully understand from our own experiences. Our innovative and reliable products are engineered for the nuances of the African landscape, empowering frontline providers to deliver excellent healthcare to patients. Our products include the Provider Digitization Suite—HeliumOS and HeliumDoc, Financial Solutions—HeliumCredit and HeliumWallet, and Our Public Health & Data Partnerships - Public Health and Data and Insights.

We are looking to hire a Backend  Engineer (Elixir) who will be responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of applications. 

Responsibilities

• 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 assurance, and front-end engineers to deliver the right solution. 
• Develop reliable, high-performance service applications using Elixir - Phoenix.
• Provision, configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS. 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 3 years of programming experience with Elixir
• Must have experience defining the scope and directing the work of mid-level - junior software engineers
• 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) 
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability 
• Separation of centralized services into microservices 
• 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) 
• Proficiency in the use of AI tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
• Good oral and written communication skills

Benefits

This role offers a competitive salary in a collaborative work environment with a dynamic and diverse team. We also offer tremendous potential with a growing global organization. 

• Package includes guaranteed take home 

• 20 days holidays + public holidays 
• Enhanced Parental + Family Leave – 60 days paid Maternity Leave and 20 days paid Paternity Leave. Our Adoption Leave policy follows the similar arrangements. 
• Health Insurance or Medical Allowance 
• Robust Learning and Development Opportunities 
• Team-building activities and social events 
• Amazing team culture! 

Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability