Senior Software Developer

The company

Patients come to us for paediatric care, from newborn visits through sports physicals. Most visits are in person, and telehealth is available for follow-ups. Turnover is low, and several staff have been here since the practice opened.

Overview

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Software Developer in Kisumu. Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. Remote within Kenya. We meet in person once or twice a year.

What you'll be doing

• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Draft short design docs for larger changes and walk the team through the tradeoffs.

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests.

Preferred qualifications

• Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.

What we offer

• Medical cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Annual leave.

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Mara Primary Care.