Backend Engineer (Elixir)

at  Helium Health

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

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

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