Savannah Informatics is a Kenyan e-Health software company founded by clinicians and finance specialists to deliver interoperable, connected solutions for healthcare facilities, organizations and regions. Our vision is to enable a better healthcare future for Kenya through pioneering use of information technology and knowledge creation. This is a Full-Time position based in Nairobi.
Responsibilities
This individual will be responsible for:
- Develop and translate high-fidelity prototypes into a high-quality, responsive, and user-friendly web application using modern frontend frameworks. Familiarity and knowledge of HTML, JS, CSS is mandatory, with UI libraries required for easy manipulation of UI components.
- Build and maintain design systems to ensure consistency across all Savannah Informatics web applications.
- Design and implement scalable frontend architecture, ensuring maintainability and reusability of components.
- In depth understanding of APIs and how to seamlessly integrate frontend interfaces with backend APIs, including REST and GraphQL endpoints. This would be required to connect to multiple backend services to screens to meet system requirements.
- Writing software unit tests using automated testing frameworks with emphasis to get maximum code test coverage (100%) and writing end-to-end tests that verify that the set of screens created are working as expected.
- Facilitate continuous code & system reviews, ensuring code quality, consistency, and adherence to standards and latest programming technologies.
- Maintaining healthy CI/CD pipelines to run tests, linting and managing deployments of code for UAT purposes and also for production purposes.
- Analyze application performance and implement optimizations to enhance user experience and system efficiency.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers, backend developers, and product managers to deliver cohesive, user-centric solutions.
- Coordinate your work to ensure that delivery of work is based on the team's, clients' and stakeholders' expectations and within sprint duration with clear source code documentation of one's work.
- Participate in brainstorming sessions with the team to discuss how certain features could be improved and/or implemented.
- Gather and refine user specifications and requirements by analyzing technical needs & requirements.
- Identify problems uncovered by customer feedback and testing, and correcting or referring problems to appropriate personnel for correction.
- Employ the use of scientific debugging skills to quickly identify and fix issues that affect users' ability to use any of the company web applications.
- Confer with teams to resolve conflicts, prioritize needs, develop content criteria, or choose solutions.
- Staying plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends through education, study, participation in conferences, workshops and groups, and applying them to operations and activities in your workflows.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a science-related field or relevant experience.
- Proven solid knowledge and experience in programming applications, programming language and technical terminology.
- Proficient in ES6, HTML, CSS and SCSS. Familiarity with UI Libraries e.g. Tailwind, Bootstrap etc.
- Proficient in database query languages.
- Knowledge of operating systems for development, with special emphasis on Mac OS, and Linux.
- A solid understanding of how web applications work including security, session management, and best development practices.
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