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
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: rspo-jobs@ampath.or.ke using the position as subject of email.
Apply via :
rspo-jobs@ampath.or.ke
