# Senior Backend Engineer (NodeJS)

**Company:** [Helium Health](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/cvpcxoXraePFNzNo4GEUy7.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Department:** Product, Data and Engineering

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## Description

Helium Health is accelerating Africa’s transition to a technology and data-driven healthcare sector. We provide a suite of solutions that serve as the digital infrastructure for all healthcare stakeholders in Africa: providers, payers, patients & governments.

We are looking to hire a Senior Backend  Engineer (NodeJS) who will be responsible for all aspects of the development and delivery of applications. 

Responsibilities

-   Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
-   Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and integrate with internal and third-party services.
-   Design and optimize data models and services using PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
-   Build reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software with appropriate unit, integration, and API testing.
-   Design and evolve scalable architectures, including microservices and event-driven systems where appropriate.
-   Deploy and operate backend services in AWS/cloud environments, working with CI/CD and containerization.
-   Monitor and optimize applications for performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
-   Collaborate with Product, Frontend, QA, DevOps, and other teams to deliver high-quality products.
-   Participate in code reviews, technical design, and architecture decisions.
-   Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers.
-   Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, and problem-solving.

## Requirements

-   Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience with 5+ years of professional backend/software engineering experience.
-   Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and TypeScript.
-   Python experience is a plus, particularly in AI/ML, automation, and data-intensive applications.
-   AI-native experience is a strong plus; experience building products or backend services where AI/LLMs are a core part of the product or workflow, including integrating AI APIs, RAG, agents, embeddings, or similar technologies
-   Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and integrate with internal and third-party services.
-   Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, particularly PostgreSQL/MySQL and MongoDB.
-   Experience with infrastructure and deployment tooling 
-   Experience with Redis or other caching technologies.
-   Good understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architecture.
-   Experience with AWS/cloud platforms, Docker, Git, and CI/CD.
-   Experience with automated testing and writing clean, maintainable, production-ready code.
-   Strong understanding of security, authentication, authorization, and API best practices.
-   Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
-   Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT.

## Benefits

This role offers a competitive salary in a collaborative work environment with a dynamic and diverse team. We also offer tremendous potential with a growing global organization. 

-   Package includes guaranteed take home 

-   20 days holidays + public holidays 
-   Enhanced Parental + Family Leave – 60 days paid Maternity Leave and 20 days paid Paternity Leave. Our Adoption Leave policy follows the similar arrangements. 
-   Health Insurance or Medical Allowance 
-   Robust Learning and Development Opportunities 
-   Team-building activities and social events 
-   Amazing team culture! 

_Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability_