Javascript Software Engineer Job at eHealth Africa, April 2015

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 below position:

Job Title: Software Engineer, Javascript

Location: Kano State
Department: Software Development
Type: Contracted

Job Description
eHealth Systems Africa develops a variety of tools using AngularJS and CouchDB that are be used to manage outbreak response, vaccine inventory, to organize transport of health commodities, monitor vaccine usage and provide reporting to government and donor partners.

We need an experienced developer that can work with our team in Kano to produce client side AngularJS and server side NodeJS and/or Django applications to collect synchronize and display data.

Requirements

• Degree in computer science / software engineering
• Minimum of 2 years commercial javascript experience
• Minimum 2 years working in software engineering team, experience with international teams a plus (ours is from all over the world)
• Familiarity with test driven development
• Familiarity with best practices in coding and design including enterprise patterns.
• Some commercial experience with AngularJS or Django, JSON, web APIs
• Experience working in a team environment with github (creating branches, merging branches, cherry picking commits, reverting commits, stashing, squash merging, tagging, etc.)

• Experience writing and working with REST APIs
• Develops capacity (full stack linux sysadmin skills) a big plus
• A Postgraduate degree in Computer Science.
• Android development experience
• Experience with document based databases (esp CouchDB)