Healthforce
Software Engineer (Ruby)
Job title : Intermediate Software Engineer (Ruby)
Reporting to : Engineering Delivery Lead
Location : South Africa based (remote)
Start date : ASAP
ABOUT HEALTHFORCE
Healthforce exists to enable high quality, affordable healthcare. We do this by making tech products. At the moment, we have three:
Brix Pharmacy
Healthforce Clinic
(this is where you will work)
Kena
Healthforce is a lean, low ego, highly skilled team that includes clinical professionals like doctors and pharmacists, and tech professionals like engineers, designers, and data analysts. We design from customer needs and have systems in place to receive continuous feedback from our customers. We highly value learning and collaboration. We use modern processes and tools: Miro, Slack, GSuite, Github.
THE ROLE
As a software engineer, you will be joining an exciting new product poised to transform how healthcare is delivered in South Africa and parts of Africa. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide ingenious solutions to business problems using the latest technologies. You will practice and champion best practices throughout the SDLC process and mentor other engineers.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Develop high quality software.
You will research, design and implement high quality software with a great bias towards efficiency, maintainability and extensibility. This will include implementing unit tests and supporting quality assurance procedures.
Collaboration.
You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, product designers and various other stakeholders across the organization to understand the problem and provide insightful input into how to design the best software solution.
Mentor other engineers.
You will mentor other engineers and participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers.
Continuous improvement.
You will advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation and architecture. This will include improving the engineering team's coding best practices and processes.
Support deployed applications.
We are always proactive in considering the experience of the customer. You will do the same by attending to and resolving issues experienced in production swiftly.
Importantly, you need to be socially minded and should want to apply your creativity and skills to reimagining the way out-of-hospital healthcare can be delivered to all South Africans when enabled by technology.
CULTURE FIT
Our culture is central to how we do things. We’ve designed a culture code that reflects this shared understanding and we do our best to follow it together.
Our purpose (why we exist)
Alleviate suffering and open up opportunities.
Our values (how we do things)
Value people
Create better ways
Be Relentlessly curious
Pull together
We base feedback and personal growth on these pillars. It’s how we know we are working in the right way. Feel free to ask us more about each of these areas, we can happily talk about our culture for hours.
TO APPLY, YOU NEED
Work experience
At least 4 years of experience as a software engineer.
Strong experience in
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby, SQL
Strong experience in using and developing restful APIs.
Strong experience with object oriented programming principles.
You have worked and understand agile software development methodologies.
Education
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience.
Short courses to keep up to speed with modern development practices.
WHAT WE OFFER
Quarterly short-term incentive scheme to boost your basic salary.
Equal contribution to a pension scheme.
If you’re in Joburg: a great office in Rosebank.
The hardware you need to do your job.
Probably the nicest hoodies in the biz.
The satisfaction of working at a place where you’re helping to improve people’s health every time you go to work.
INTERESTED?
Apply now and let's get started!
We often receive high volumes of applications. We will do our best to reply to everyone, but may only get back to those candidates we think will fit the role.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Software Engineer (Ruby)
Job title : Intermediate Software Engineer (Ruby)
Reporting to : Engineering Delivery Lead
Location : South Africa based (remote)
Start date : ASAP
ABOUT HEALTHFORCE
Healthforce exists to enable high quality, affordable healthcare. We do this by making tech products. At the moment, we have three:
Brix Pharmacy
Healthforce Clinic
(this is where you will work)
Kena
Healthforce is a lean, low ego, highly skilled team that includes clinical professionals like doctors and pharmacists, and tech professionals like engineers, designers, and data analysts. We design from customer needs and have systems in place to receive continuous feedback from our customers. We highly value learning and collaboration. We use modern processes and tools: Miro, Slack, GSuite, Github.
THE ROLE
As a software engineer, you will be joining an exciting new product poised to transform how healthcare is delivered in South Africa and parts of Africa. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide ingenious solutions to business problems using the latest technologies. You will practice and champion best practices throughout the SDLC process and mentor other engineers.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Develop high quality software.
You will research, design and implement high quality software with a great bias towards efficiency, maintainability and extensibility. This will include implementing unit tests and supporting quality assurance procedures.
Collaboration.
You will work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, product designers and various other stakeholders across the organization to understand the problem and provide insightful input into how to design the best software solution.
Mentor other engineers.
You will mentor other engineers and participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers.
Continuous improvement.
You will advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation and architecture. This will include improving the engineering team's coding best practices and processes.
Support deployed applications.
We are always proactive in considering the experience of the customer. You will do the same by attending to and resolving issues experienced in production swiftly.
Importantly, you need to be socially minded and should want to apply your creativity and skills to reimagining the way out-of-hospital healthcare can be delivered to all South Africans when enabled by technology.
CULTURE FIT
Our culture is central to how we do things. We’ve designed a culture code that reflects this shared understanding and we do our best to follow it together.
Our purpose (why we exist)
Alleviate suffering and open up opportunities.
Our values (how we do things)
Value people
Create better ways
Be Relentlessly curious
Pull together
We base feedback and personal growth on these pillars. It’s how we know we are working in the right way. Feel free to ask us more about each of these areas, we can happily talk about our culture for hours.
TO APPLY, YOU NEED
Work experience
At least 4 years of experience as a software engineer.
Strong experience in
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby, SQL
Strong experience in using and developing restful APIs.
Strong experience with object oriented programming principles.
You have worked and understand agile software development methodologies.
Education
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience.
Short courses to keep up to speed with modern development practices.
WHAT WE OFFER
Quarterly short-term incentive scheme to boost your basic salary.
Equal contribution to a pension scheme.
If you’re in Joburg: a great office in Rosebank.
The hardware you need to do your job.
Probably the nicest hoodies in the biz.
The satisfaction of working at a place where you’re helping to improve people’s health every time you go to work.
INTERESTED?
Apply now and let's get started!
We often receive high volumes of applications. We will do our best to reply to everyone, but may only get back to those candidates we think will fit the role.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
