Field designs and builds innovative solutions for improving child survival and access to health care in several African countries. Our small team works from Berlin, Germany and Abuja, Nigeria. We’re looking for engaged people to work with us on the software tools which power our projects.
We believe that only diverse teams can build strong solutions to the often wicked problems that health systems in emerging contexts face. We believe people matter the most - those we work with and that we work for. We believe in the power of careful design, incorrigible curiosity, and respect for the challenges and contexts we engage to produce solutions that generate real, lasting value for the people and programs we serve.
We’re looking for motivated front end and full stack web developers to help us build our bleeding edge logistics and business intelligence tools. You’ll help investigate user needs, architect, build and ship prototypes, services and apps, as well as assisting with basic data ops support.
Your job will be to translate requirements and business needs into clean, modular, well tested code based on appropriate enterprise patterns. You will work closely with other developers in Nigeria and abroad, supporting each other and collaborating through frequent code reviews and strong adherence to best engineering practices.
Note: We take our craft seriously! Be prepared to give and get feedback, and be an active participant in code reviews, group problem solving sessions, and design activities.
This is initially a 12-month full time contract position.
- Experience with client- and server-side Javascript, including
- document-oriented databases (CouchDB a plus)
- React and Redux
- Node.js
- Excellent communication skills and ability to play multiple roles in a team
- A deep curiosity for information architecture, design patterns, and critical evaluation of new technology
- 4+ years work experience in commercial software development, including considerable professional experience working in a team
- Professional experience using Github as a primary source control system, and git-flow as a primary workflow
- Proven ability to write well tested, documented code
- Proven experience architecting and developing multi-tiered enterprise applications featuring complex business or information processing rules
- MS/BA/BS in computer science, or comparable work experience
- High creativity and problem solving abilities
- Experience with Unix environments and basic devops
- Location: Abuja
- Language skills: English (fluent)
- Experience with business intelligence systems
- Experience with RESTful service design and implementation
- Experience in designing for offline-first solutions or environments with unstable internet connections.
- Experience in remote work with distributed teams.
- Experience with AWS and microservice architectures
- Experience working with multiple database paradigms and platforms including elasticsearch, sql dialects
If this sounds like you please send your CV and work portfolio or references that demonstrate your past work and abilities to [email protected]. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!