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Job Title:  Senior Frontend Developer

Organisation: Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) is a Sub-Awardee to the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) on a multi country program entitled HQ Support of Improved Interoperable Health Information Systems (HIS) towards HIV/AIDS and TB Control through Improved HIS Policy, Governance, Workforce Capacity and systems under PEPFAR (HISTAC). The program will provide technical assistance in areas of data base management, software development, case-based surveillance, HIS design and implementation.

The program seeks to create a system of global support with buy-in from six selected countries (Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Haiti and Rwanda) for OpenMRS HIV Reference Implementation (OHRI) and has a focus on driving data exchange and interoperability across the HIS systems to improve efficiencies for providing patient care, improving program monitoring and leveraging analytics for data driven decision making. We will be working with University of Nairobi and UCSF to help manage developers, collaborate in a community of practice, and ultimately build capacity in more junior developers.

Job Summary:   The Senior Frontend Developer shall be responsible for ensuring the alignment of web design and user experience requirements, optimizing web pages for maximum efficiency and maintaining consistency across all pages. He/she will be required to work in a team alongside with OpenMRS Backend Developers, UX Designers, Business analysts to ensure project requirements are met consistently. The developer shall also ensure that the different software developed conforms to MakSPH, UCSF, OpenMRS Community and country software development standards by overseeing a business analyst team conducting rigorous diagnosis, tests, code debugging, and technical documentation through reference manuals. Exposure to OpenMRS and systems integrations will be an advantage.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to design software solutions by studying information needs; systems flow, data usage, and work processes while adhering to the software development lifecycle
• Work with UX Developer to determine the structure and design of web pages, ensuring user experience determines design choices
• Develop features to enhance the user experience, with the right balance between functional and aesthetic design.
• Lead the development of OHRI Foundation, OpenMRS 3.x UI widgets, and supporting tooling as is required by the end users
• Develop UI widgets as needed within the OHRI and OpenMRS 3.x ecosystem
• Train implementing partner developers to use and extend the UI widgets
• Optimize web pages for maximum speed, extensibility and scalability
• Develop OHRI program workflows from data collection forms, clinical dashboards with decision support summaries, monitoring and clinical reports
• Work with HIS business analysts, developers, and IT support staff to support the piloting, rollout and maintenance of HIS systems in public health facilities.
• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to investigate, analyse and make recommendations to management regarding technology improvements, upgrades and modifications
• Work with HIS business analysts and project managers to analyse user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
• Work with HIS business analysts and developers to prepare reference materials for end and technical users by writing operating instructions, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, job aids, code use examples and implementor job aids
• Undertake such other tasks within the scope of the role as directed by leadership from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science and software engineering and Information systems
• At least five years of experience in software development or working with health information systems.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a software developer or engineer; with at least 2 years of frontend development using JavaScript frameworks, specially ReactJS
• Ability to meet deadlines against multiple priorities and schedules, as well as the ability to manage scope creep and immediately alert leadership of issues with timelines
• Ability to speak to high level leadership who may need technical descriptions and developments translated to ease understanding and acceptance
• Advanced experience in developing data-driven applications utilizing significant relational database engines as part of the overall application architecture (experience with any or all of the following highly desirable: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server, H2 SQL)
• Experience with React and Micro-frontends-based architectures
• Experience building UI widgets, developer tooling and libraries is desired
• Working experience using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ReactJS, Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, Subversion, Liquibase, Git, Restful web services, Agile methodology, Maven,
• Advanced knowledge and demonstrable skill with popular open source programming languages (must include JavaScript)
• Proficiency developing and troubleshooting complex software systems that run in mixed-environments including Linux, Unix and/or Windows on desktop, server, tablet, and mobile systems

Duration: April 1, 2024 – September 29, 2024 (with possibility of extension to September 29, 2025)

How to Apply:

All qualified and interested candidates are invited to submit their application while clearly highlighting the position being applied for in the “subject” of the email and in the cover letter.

Address this to;

The Dean,

Makerere University School of Public Health,

College of Health Sciences, Makerere University,

P.O. Box 7072,

Kampala, Uganda

Application Documents

• Motivational Letter
• Resume with contacts of 3 professional referees
• Copies of all relevant academic documents

A soft copy of the application should be submitted as one PDF file online at the link below.

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Deadline: 15^th March 2024 by 5:00pm

Please Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted!

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