Software Engineer (Ruby)

at  Healthforce

HEALTHFORCE

Software Engineer (Ruby)
Job title: Intermediate Software Engineer (Ruby)
Reporting to: Engineering Delivery Lead
Location: South Africa based (remote)
Start date: ASAP

THE ROLE

As a software engineer, you will be joining an exciting new product poised to transform how healthcare is delivered in South Africa and parts of Africa. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide ingenious solutions to business problems using the latest technologies. You will practice and champion best practices throughout the SDLC process and mentor other engineers.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Develop high quality software. You will research, design and implement high quality software with a great bias towards efficiency, maintainability and extensibility. This will include implementing unit tests and supporting quality assurance procedures.
Collaboration. You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, product designers and various other stakeholders across the organization to understand the problem and provide insightful input into how to design the best software solution.
Mentor other engineers. You will mentor other engineers and participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers.
Continuous improvement. You will advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation and architecture. This will include improving the engineering team’s coding best practices and processes.
Support deployed applications. We are always proactive in considering the experience of the customer. You will do the same by attending to and resolving issues experienced in production swiftly.
Importantly, you need to be socially minded and should want to apply your creativity and skills to reimagining the way out-of-hospital healthcare can be delivered to all South Africans when enabled by technology.