Cardo Health is on a mission to improve the health and wellbeing of millions of people in emerging markets. It has embarked on its journey and has already acquired stakes in ViBe Saúde, Brazil’s leading B2C digital health company, as well as in Kena Health in South Africa. If you are passionate about building the best technology platform that would enable high quality healthcare to millions of people at an affordable price, this position may interest you.
The Backend Engineer is responsible for the system build and functionality. Their role is to integrate the application with all required systems and services and provide clean and easy to use APIs and data streams for the frontend part of the system. Although their work is usually hidden from the user they bear the full responsibility for the application functionality, performance and scalability. They know how to write clean modern APIs, integrate with legacy systems and work with databases.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the business logic and backend systems and services
- Work closely with frontend developers to design and develop functional, performing and complete APIs
- Ability to produce high-quality, self-documenting code by using test-driven development (TDD) techniques
- Build integration and connection to existing systems
- Write both unit and integration tests, and develop automation tools for daily tasks
- Develop high quality, well documented, and efficient code
- Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
Requirements
- Experience as a backend developer in Node, Typescript, AWS
- Experience with database systems, with knowledge of SQL and NoSQL stores (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Couchbase, etc.)
- Ability to write effective unit, integration, and API tests
- Nice to have knowledge of immutable infrastructure, infrastructure automation and provisioning tools
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies
- Experience as a Developer on a cross-functional agile team preferred
- Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organisation on decisions
- Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
- Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies
- Wants to unleash inner self-starter and work in an environment that fosters entrepreneurial minds
- Believes in culture of brutal transparency and trust
- Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge
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