Backend Engineer (Elixir)

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 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, 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)
  
• Good oral and written communication skills
  

Job Type:

Full-Time

Working Environment:

Nigeria region, with opportunity for remote work

Remuneration:

Competitive based on experience, includes guaranteed take home and performance bonus

Benefits:

Health cover, paid time off (vacation, parental leave, study leave), home service options and other benefits and perks.

Equal Opportunity Employer

"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."