Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir) Job at Helium Health

Helium Health is a full-service Healthtech company that provides a suite of solutions for healthcare providers, payers, and patients in emerging markets — at the core of which is our SaaS based electronic medical records/hospital management information system (EMR/HMIS).

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Backend Engineer (Elixir)

Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking to hire a Senior 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 5 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 
• 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. 
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use 
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability 
• Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis) 
• Good oral and written communication skills