Terms of Reference: Consultant – Software Engineer
Nairobi, Kenya
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Experienced
Terms of Reference: Consultant – Software Engineer
Department: Digital Health
Reports to: Deputy Director Digital Health & Government Partnerships
Location: Nairobi – Kenya
Duration: 1 Year
About Living Goods:
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We empower Community Health Workers (CHWs) with digital tools that enable them to deliver door-to-door care. CHWs use a mobile app to track pregnancies, diagnose and treat common infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia, monitor disease outbreaks, and follow up with families. Real-time data also supports performance monitoring and impact assessment. By integrating tech-based solutions into community health systems, Living Goods fosters better health outcomes, demonstrating the power of digital health in transforming healthcare delivery in resource-constrained settings.
The Opportunity:
The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys and maintains secure, scalable and interoperable digital health software. The role translates user and business requirements into high-quality software that conforms to the approved national digital health architecture, national digital health standards, and regulatory requirements
Key Responsibilities:
1. Software Design and Development
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
Department: Digital Health
Reports to: Deputy Director Digital Health & Government Partnerships
Location: Nairobi – Kenya
Duration: 1 Year
About Living Goods:
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We empower Community Health Workers (CHWs) with digital tools that enable them to deliver door-to-door care. CHWs use a mobile app to track pregnancies, diagnose and treat common infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia, monitor disease outbreaks, and follow up with families. Real-time data also supports performance monitoring and impact assessment. By integrating tech-based solutions into community health systems, Living Goods fosters better health outcomes, demonstrating the power of digital health in transforming healthcare delivery in resource-constrained settings.
The Opportunity:
The Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys and maintains secure, scalable and interoperable digital health software. The role translates user and business requirements into high-quality software that conforms to the approved national digital health architecture, national digital health standards, and regulatory requirements
Key Responsibilities:
1. Software Design and Development
- Design, develop, test and maintain software components, services and integrations for digital health systems in line with approved requirements, architecture and technical specifications.
- Translate user stories, functional requirements and workflows into technical designs and well-structured, maintainable, reusable code.
- Build and maintain integrations between digital health systems using applicable health information exchange standards such as HL7 FHIR, and national registries (e.g., client, facility and health worker registries).
- Apply secure coding practices and privacy-by-design principles, including authentication, authorisation, encryption and audit logging, in compliance with the Data Protection Act (DPA) and the Digital Health Act.
- Design and optimise database schemas, queries and data pipelines to ensure data integrity, performance and scalability.
- Participate in code reviews, pair programming and technical design discussions to uphold code quality and engineering standards.
- Write and maintain automated unit, integration and end-to-end tests, and support quality assurance teams during system, performance and user acceptance testing.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and infrastructure-as-code to enable reliable, repeatable deployments across development, staging and production environments.
- Monitor system performance, availability and logs; troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve defects and production incidents within agreed service levels.
- Support the review and validation of software delivered by technology partners to confirm adherence to approved specifications, coding standards and security requirements.
- Identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities, and recommend and implement remediation measures.
- Produce and maintain clear technical documentation, including API specifications, system design notes, deployment guides and operational runbooks.
- Work closely with solution architecture, product management, project management, quality assurance, cybersecurity and data management teams to ensure coordinated delivery.
- Engage with technology and development partners to align on technical approaches, integration requirements and delivery timelines.
- Contribute to agile ceremonies, technical governance forums and continuous improvement of engineering practices and standards
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Health Informatics, or a related field
- Professional certification in software development
- Demonstrated expertise or certification in FHIR/HL7 interoperability standards
- Certification or training in secure software development, DevOps or agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) is an added advantage.
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on software development design, engineering experience.
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and frameworks.
- Experience designing and implementing system integrations.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process.
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