Software Engineer - Digital Health

About the role

Living Goods is hiring a Software Engineer in Nairobi (Westlands) to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain secure, scalable and interoperable digital health software. The role turns user and business requirements into software that follows the national digital health architecture, standards and regulatory requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain software components, services and integrations for digital health systems, translating user stories and workflows into clean, reusable code.
• Build integrations between digital health systems using standards such as HL7 FHIR and national registries, applying secure coding and privacy-by-design principles under the Data Protection Act and the Digital Health Act.
• Design and optimise database schemas, queries and data pipelines for data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Write automated unit, integration and end-to-end tests and support QA during system, performance and user acceptance testing.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and infrastructure-as-code, and monitor performance, availability and logs to resolve defects and incidents.
• Review software from technology partners, identify technical debt, performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities, and recommend fixes.
• Maintain technical documentation such as API specifications, design notes, deployment guides and runbooks, and work with architecture, product, project, QA, cybersecurity and data management teams.

Required profile

• 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.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on software development and engineering experience.
• Certification or training in secure software development, DevOps or agile methods (e.g. Scrum) is an added advantage.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages and frameworks.
• Experience designing and implementing system integrations.