Programmer at Ampath Kenya

The Academic Model Providing Access To Health Care (AMPATH) is a project under the auspices of Moi University School of Medicine, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH), and Consortium of North American Universities whose aim is to provide sustainable efforts in access to Healthcare, Research, and Training. AMPATH also supports the Ministry of Health in ten (10) counties of North Rift, Western and Nyanza regions of Kenya.

Applications are invited from suitable candidates for the following vacant position under PT4A   and STRENGTHS STUDIES to be based at AMPATH Centre.

SITE:              MTRH                                                                                

GRADE:         RS 11

Reporting to the Principal Investigator (PI), the successful candidate will among others be responsible for the following:-

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understand, contribute to and advise other AMPATH developers in software development, primarily Java and JavaScript web applications and OpenMRS (core and modules).
• Design, maintain and deploy enterprise software in AngularX, NodeJS, Java, and Python to meet user and business needs.
• Gather and document user requests for future upgrades and enhancements to OpenMRS (core and modules), as well as other custom enterprise software.
• Conduct and/or inform IT on system-wide tests as well as provide user technical support
• Manage developer workloads in JIRA ticketing system
• Work with forms and concepts team, data quality, reporting, IT and other developers to coordinate the development process and meet project deadlines.
• Any other duty as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

      The ideal candidate must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and IT.
• At least 3 years working experience with at least one of the following programming languages; Java,  NodeJS and Python.
• Experience working with at least one frontend Javascript library/framework: Angular, ReactJS, VueJS.
• Experience working with at least one backend framework: ExpressJs, HapiJs, Java Spring
• Intermediate understanding of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6 features
• At Least 2 years’ experience working in an agile software development environment.
• It will be an added advantage if you have
• Experience working in a TDD environment
• Experience with containerization, bash scripting, docker/kubernetes, cloud-based CI/CD tool, nginx, MySQL scripting.
• Experience working with Linting tools, ESLint
• Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Working knowledge of at least one version control tool -- Git, Mercurial (provide link to your git profile)
• Experience developing and maintaining REST APIs
• Experience working in health or medical software in resource-constrained environments
• Contributing to OpenMRS