Helium Health, is a full-service Healthtech company on a journey to digitize healthcare across Africa. We have been doing this since 2016, and our pioneering approach has helped to transform healthcare delivery systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and the GCC, creating an alternative vision for patients and providers, whilst facilitating hundreds of thousands of high-quality patient experiences every month.
We are very good at creating for the market we live in, because we fully understand from our own experiences. Our innovative and reliable products are engineered for the nuances of the African landscape, empowering frontline providers to deliver excellent healthcare to patients. Our products include the Provider Digitization Suite—HeliumOS and HeliumDoc, Financial Solutions—HeliumCredit and HeliumWallet, and Our Public Health & Data Partnerships – Public Health and Data and Insights.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Backend Engineer (Elixir)
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Work Mode: Hybrid
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 assurance, 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).
Proficiency in the use of AI tools to accelerate development, debugging, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
Good oral and written communication skills.
Benefits
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.
