eHealth Africa Vacancy for Junior Software Developers

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. eHealth Africa is recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Junior Software Developer Location: Kano Summary

The Junior Developer is responsible for analysing, designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, re-engineering and troubleshooting customer's’ applications, whilst working with other team members using established procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities

Plans, designs, develops, tests, and maintains web- and mobile-based applications
Works closely with end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
Works on bug fixes and improving application performance
Participates in the evolution of company level best practices, standards, and policies
Designs solutions attending to both business and technical considerations
Analyzes user requirements, envisions system features and functionality
Collaborates with product owners, team leads and other software developers

Qualifications and Experience

Bachelor's degree from college or university in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems Technology or related field
Basic understanding of databases, including SQL
Familiarity with build tools
Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
Basic understanding of using data to drive decisions and data visualization
Understanding of the differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
Unit test and debugging skills
Understanding of code versioning tools (Git) is a plus
Fluent in English
1 - 4 years of experience in Software Development or an equivalent of education and experience
Familiarity with JavaScript is desired. Alternatively, knowledge of either Java, C# or Ruby.
Basic knowledge of software development life cycle (e.g. requirements, analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation) and execution models (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, Iterative Development, etc.)
Basic understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX