Senior Software Engineer (Digital Health Platform)

About the role

Living Goods builds a digital health platform used by Community Health Workers in Kenya, Uganda and Burkina Faso, and is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join its Global Software Engineering team in Nairobi. This is a senior individual-contributor role with team leadership: roughly 70% of your time is spent building and 30% leading, and you will own a product area end to end.

Key responsibilities

• Set the technical direction of your product area, including architecture and design, and mentor a team of two to four engineers through code review, pairing and structured feedback.
• Lead the offline-first Android mobile application used by health workers and supervisors, and FHIR-native backend services in Kotlin, Spring Boot, Node.js and TypeScript.
• Ensure data integrity (sync conflict resolution, append-only records) and protect clinical and personal data in line with Kenya's Data Protection Act.
• Extend the platform across countries through configuration rather than forks, and ship features end to end, including field support.
• Represent engineering with product managers, programme teams and Ministry of Health stakeholders, and contribute to hiring, onboarding and engineering standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development, including at least 2 years leading a team or being the senior engineer others depended on.
• Proven track record of shipping and maintaining production software, and of mentoring engineers.
• Experience with open-source digital health tools such as FHIR/HL7, CHT, DHIS2, OpenMRS, OpenSRP, CommCare or OpenLMIS is strongly preferred; LLM and WhatsApp/SMS integration is a plus.
• Working French is an advantage.

Required skills

• Depth in either the JVM (Kotlin or Java) or TypeScript and Node.js, with willingness to work across both.
• Relational data modelling, schema migration, API design, Git, code review and CI/CD.
• JIRA and Confluence strongly preferred.
• MVC, ORM, RESTful APIs, databases, cloud and containerised hosting.

What we offer

• A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience.
• Health insurance and a bonus opportunity.