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.

• 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