Senior App Developer Job at Medic Mobile - Career Opportunity in Kenya
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Vacancy title:
Senior App Developer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

Medic Mobile

Deadline of this Job:
30 January 2021  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed


JOB DETAILS:
We are searching for an App Developer to contribute to our team, mission, and impact. This is a unique opportunity to bring together your passion for global health and technology, and working at the grassroots level. As App Developer, you will manage project app development. We believe that the technologies, work environments, and approaches to global health and development you've experienced in the past, and have mastered in-depth will be useful to further build Medic’s tools and technology. We expect that you are a quick learner and equally quick to adapt to new and changing technologies. You will work closely with design and project teams. .

Key Responsibilities:
• Manage project technical development/configurations: Work alongside partnerships leads, project managers, and designers to define scope, design, write technical specifications, and build public health applications
• Develop internal and partner-facing interactive data visualizations. Work with designers and project managers to ensure that dashboard designs are feasible within the Medic Mobile Analytics platform
• Contribute to and maintain a growing code base of JavaScript, JSON configuration, technical documentation, and interactive data visualizations.
• Conduct functional and unit testing on all developed code and scripts in line with testing frameworks to ensure conformance with defined requirements.
• Manage client timelines, monitor usage of the platform, and any relevant software costs for invoicing purposes to foster strong relationships with partners.
• Support end users and stakeholders (internal and external) on any arising technology issues/bugs to resolve, escalate, and resolve.
• Describe digital health needs and opportunities in your projects/region and propel these needs to be addressed in Medic Mobile’s current tool kit or product roadmap
• Support in proposal writing, publications, present Medic Mobile in meetings, seminars, summits & forums when called upon to do so.


Skills Knowledge & Expertise
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in similar roles with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Strong command of written and spoken English.
• Proficient in Javascript or other programming languages.
• Proficient with relational databases, Postgres or MySQL
• Experience with data analysis and data visualisation languages R/Matlab/Python would be of benefit
• Have experience using command-line tools on Linux (preferred) or another UNIX-like operating system.
• Be committed to frequent and timely communication, both in person and online (via email, Slack, and other online chat applications).
• Have interest in working with and learning from a globally distributed team of mHealth technology experts.
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to pass on information clearly to users and to grasp difficulties perceived by users.
• Strong user support orientation with an attitude of wanting to assist people and pass-on their knowledge and experience to others establishing a good working relationship with users/partners.
• Ability to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum supervision.


Additional Skills:
• Be familiar with Android SDK, NoSQL databases.
• Project work experience with open source technology.
• Good logical diagnostic skills and ability to exercise good judgment in the resolution of problems.
• Fluency in other languages would be nice to have e.g French, Swahili.
This role can be fully remote or based in our Africa or Asia hubs.


Job Education Requirements: Not Specified


Job Education Experience: Not Specified


Work Hours: 8

 

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job:  30 January 2021
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 15-12-2020
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 15-12-2020
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 15-12-2065
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