Software Engineer

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: 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.

Testing, Deployment and System Support

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.

Documentation and Collaboration

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

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

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.

Work Experience:

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.