Vacancy title:
Senior Software Engineer – Healthcare sector

Jobs at:
Savics

Deadline of this Job:
Open

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

JOB DETAILS:
Senior Software Engineer – Healthcare sector

About Savics
Savics is a social business with an international reach. Our mission is to provide connectivity solutions and analytical expertise to increase the impact of diagnostic technologies on individualized patient care, disease surveillance and health-care management at the global level. We work together with global institutions and national governing bodies to tackle important global health issues such as tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis, and malaria. Whether finding new ways to improve patient care, accelerate national health decisions, or solving long-lasting problems, we are releasing people from suffering through our new products.
Your role
We are looking for a passionate Senior Software Engineer to design, develop and install the software solutions DataToCare dedicated to health centers. Software Engineer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, defining system functionality and writing code in various languages: JavaScript, Java, HTML5, … in multiple environments: Web, Desktop, Mobile, … in different technologies Node.js, Couchbase, AngularJS. You will have to work in a team remotely organized and perform installations in health care centers of foreign countries.
Responsibilities
• Recognize and Respect the Agile Manifesto
• Gather and analyze information to identify requirements and solutions
• Write well-designed and harmonious code
• Collaborate with Dev Team members using Bitbucket, Trello, and Slack
• Integrate software components into fully functional DataToCare system
• Test, Install and Deploy the software during missions in foreign countries
• Report the bugs and Ensure the troubleshooting on the field and remotely
• Provide a complete training to the none-IT end-users to ensure a sustainable use of the software
• Assess user feedbacks and report it
Requirements
• Bachelor and/or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years developing experience in a relevant oriented object programming language
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience in prototyping and software design
• Ability to document requirements and specifications
• Experience in user training
• You are comfortable with traveling for missions to install the software
Preferred qualifications
• Ability and willingness to learn new programming languages, environment, technologies
• You have a relevant experience in the Health sector
• You are familiar with Agile methodologies
• You are fluent in English and in French
Your behavior
• Empathetic to the customer and end-users needs
• Problem solver
• Listener
• Independent
• Proactive
• Organized
• Ethics and Humanist Values
At Savics, you will work in an environment where humanist values are nurtured. You will be independent, responsible for finding solutions to local and global problems and surrounded by highly entrepreneurial people. We are all happy to be part of the team and to learn every day from each other. Our goal is to make an important impact on global health.
Please be mindful of our Savics Manifesto prior applying to this position.

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