About Ilara Health
Ilara Health is participating in a maternal health project run jointly with the Kisumu Ministry of Health and funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at improving antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC). Maternal mortality remains a significant public health problem in Kenya; especially in Kisumu County, where the maternal mortality ratio is nearly double the national average. COVID-19 has made provision of ANC/PNC services more difficult and resulted in an increase in negative maternal health outcomes.This is exacerbated by the heightened stigma and fear existing during the pandemic, as patients view health centers as high-risk hot spots for infection. This project aims to improve ANC/PNC services through a decentralized model that leverages Ilara’s diagnostic and telemedicine capabilities to deliver improved care.
Ilara was founded to bring diagnostic support and essential tests to patients and providers who currently are unable to access these basic life-saving tools. We partner with companies that are disrupting the diagnostic device landscape, integrate their devices into our tech platform, and offer this diagnostic package plus smart financing to health facilities in peri-urban areas across Africa. As a result, our facilities are now able to offer their patients essential tests through our affordable, tech-enabled, point of care (POC) diagnostic suite.
You’ll be joining a fast-paced startup environment and contribute to projects that will have a real impact on health outcomes.
We’re all super passionate about the work we do, and are looking for people with a drive to make real change in the world.
About the role
In this role, you’ll be focused on delivering software products for our maternal health project to ensure that thousands of mothers receive essential services at a time when access to health is limited due to COVID-19. Development will be focused on building out Ilara Health’s remote care platform inNode.JS, React, building integrationswith the Ministry of Health’s OpenMRS-based EMR, developing health modules usingKotlin/Spring Boot. To succeed in this role, you should be just as comfortable building beautiful front-end interfaces as you are driving back-end development. You’ll work with a senior software engineer and a product manager.
While this project is seperate from Ilara’s core commercial development, you’ll work closely with our internal teams, including our core engineering team, and will have the opportunity to join our full-time staff at the completion of this contract, dependent on performance.
Responsibilities
Help build and ship industry-leading healthcare products
Build beautiful user interfaces and user experiences on the front end, and efficient, scalable backend solutions
Work with the product manager, program manager and other external stakeholders to develop the technical vision for the project
Work with Ilara’s core team to align project requirements and vision with Ilara’s product roadmap
Assist with front-end UI and UX design
Help make high-level technical decisions
Assist with backend development in Kotlin/Spring and/or Express and Node.js
Assist with dev-ops where necessary
Be a coding chameleon! Ilara is a super young company, and we’ll need help with a wide range of engineering tasks.
Write clean code and effective documentation
About you
Bachelors or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering Computer Engineering, Math or other technical degree. Equivalent professional experience is also sufficient
4+ years of experience in technical role
Experience developing and shipping production-level software
Proven ability to build simple, beautiful front-end interfaces
Experience building and designing secure, robust and efficient back-end applications
Some experience building front end and/or backend systems in a Javascript stack
Ability to pick up new languages, frameworks and system easily
Some managerial experience a plus
Experience building software systems for healthcare a plus
Some dev-ops experience a plus
You have entrepreneurial drive, creativity, are resourceful and have a sense of humour
You get energy from working with a mission-driven team who are passionate about improving healthcare in Kenya
Job Requirements
Required education
: Bachelor's degree
Required relevant work experience
: 5 years
Required languages:
English (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent)
Mandatory attachments
Please have a scan or photo of these documents ready when you start the application:
Self-prepared CV file
- the employer wants to see a CV that you have prepared yourself
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