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Backend Engineer (Elixir)

heliumhealthLagos, NigeriaRemote, Onsite
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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

Job Type:


Full-Time

Working Environment: 


Nigeria region, with opportunity for remote work

Remuneration: 


Competitive based on experience, includes guaranteed take home and performance bonus

Benefits: 


Health cover, paid time off (vacation, parental leave, study leave), home service options and other benefits and perks.

Equal Opportunity Employer


“Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability.”

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We provide a suite of solutions that serve as the digital infrastructure for all healthcare stakeholders in Africa: providers, payers, patients &amp; governments.</span></p><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are looking to hire a Backend &nbsp;Engineer (Elixir) who will be responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of applications.&nbsp;</span></p><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#ff0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Responsibilities</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Support and maintain existing production code in the field and develop and deliver new enhancements and products to our client base.&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with product management, operations, quality, and front-end engineers to deliver the right solution.&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Develop reliable, high-performance service applications using Elixir - Phoenix.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Provision, configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS.&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#ff0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Requirements</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 3 years of programming experience with Elixir</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Must have experience defining the scope and directing the work of mid-level - junior software engineers</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with our API&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Building reusable code and libraries for future use&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Separation of centralized services into microservices&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, or similar tools&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software.&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis)&nbsp;</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Good oral and written communication skills</span></p></li></ul><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Gill Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br></span></p></div><div><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong><strong>Job Type:</strong></strong></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;">Full-Time</p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong><strong>Working Environment:&nbsp;</strong></strong></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;">Nigeria region, with opportunity for remote work</p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong><strong>Remuneration:&nbsp;</strong></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Competitive based on experience, includes guaranteed take home and performance bonus</p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong><strong>Benefits:&nbsp;</strong></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;">Health cover, paid time off (vacation, parental leave, study leave), home service options and other benefits and perks.</p><p style="text-align:justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer</strong></strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><em>“Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability.”</em></p><p style="margin-right:-.5in;text-align:justify;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p 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Thrive Here & What We Value1. Collaborative Environment | 2. Continuous Learning and Development | 3. Passion for Healthcare</s> | Collaborative work environment with a dynamic and diverse team | Robust Learning and Development Opportunities | Team-building activities and social events | Amazing team culture!</s> | Guaranteed take home 20 days holidays + public holidays | Enhanced Parental + Family Leave – 60 days paid Maternity Leave and 20 days paid Paternity Leave. | Health Insurance or Medical Allowance | Tremendous potential with a growing global organization | Our Adoption Leave policy follows the similar arrangements. | 1. Collaborative work environment with a dynamic and diverse team. | 2. Tremendous potential with a growing global organization. | 3. Guaranteed take home 20 days holidays + public holidays | 4. Enhanced Parental + Family Leave – 60 days paid Maternity Leave and 20 days paid Paternity Leave. | 5. Our Adoption Leave policy follows the similar arrangements. | 6. Health Insurance or Medical Allowance | 7. Robust Learning and Development Opportunities | 8. Teambuilding activities and social events | 9. Amazing team culture!</s>

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