Software Engineer needed for solving urgent global health issue

Shifo is looking for Software/System Engineers who want to be part of making an impact for vulnerable women and children
Shifo's Vision is "A day when no child dies or suffers from preventable diseases". And Shifo is working to develop and implement solutions that ensure children can be registered and receive unique personal numbers, and that children are followed up to ensure they receive quality preventive health services.
Shifo is currently focusing its efforts to strengthen health systems in Africa and Asia.
We are current looking for a software engineer who would like to join the technology team and help Shifo to get closer to its vision.
System/software development is an integral part of Shifo where we work hard to bring the best experience to the end-users by developing among others healthcare applications, transparency systems and much more.
Shifo Team are quite an international bunch of people, who were working previously at KTH, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, and we decided to dedicate ourselves to this cause. And we are based in Stockholm, Sweden.

We hire for attitide rather than competence, so below expectations are only a desired checklist:
- You love turning ideas into working code
- You have minimum of 2 years of experience in development of software applications/platform and understanding human computer interaction
- Experience in web development and knowledge/understanding of Python, Pandas, Docker
- Knowledge in front-end technologies and libraries such as HTML5, CSS3, LESS, JavaScript, jQuery
- Experience in administration and development in PostgreSQL, MySQL databases
- Disciplined approach to test-driven development, A/B testing, and metrics-driven decision making.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability of debugging and troubleshooting
- English language proficiency (spoken and written)

Who you are
You are a team builder and team player and understand the value of being humble, kind and supportive to other team members
You not only interested to write the code, but also have an interest to interact with end-users and other partners to learn the needs
You are disciplined and manage your time effectively and you hate when people micro-manage
You not only see technical problems, but also solutions.
You understand what it means to develop easy/simple and intuitive systems for the end users.
You are ready to travel to implementation sites in Africa and Asia to work with the end users and develop/improve the system based on the actual needs.
You enjoy being part of a small team with diverse backgrounds, experience and culture
You want to grow as a professional and open to share your knowledge with others
You have high level of integrity and focus on doing the right things and doing them right

If you are indeed interested and believe you can contribute, please send your CV (maximum 2 pages) or LinkedIn Profile and Cover Letter (maximum 1 page) to [email protected]
We will carefully review your Cover Letter to understand why you want to work at Shifo and why Shifo should definitely work with you.
If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to write to [email protected]

Terms of employment: full time / 100%
Contract: 1 year contract with potential to extend to permanent employment

You are a team builder and team player and understand the value of being humble, kind and supportive to other team members
You not only interested to write the code, but also have an interest to interact with end-users and other partners to learn the needs
You are disciplined and manage your time effectively and you hate when people micro-manage
You not only see technical problems, but also solutions.
You understand what it means to develop easy/simple and intuitive systems for the end users.
You are ready to travel to implementation sites in Africa and Asia to work with the end users and develop/improve the system based on the actual needs.
You enjoy being part of a small team with diverse backgrounds, experience and culture
You want to grow as a professional and open to share your knowledge with others
You have high level of integrity and focus on doing the right things and doing them right

Shifo Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Sweden. Shifo's vision is a day when no child dies or suffers from preventable diseases. Shifo develops solutions based on Smart Paper Technology to enable relevant and quality data for use to drive continuous improvement in quality of care and health outcomes for women and children during ante, intra, post-natal and child health services.
Four indicators are crucial for Shifo - 1) enabling child registration and individual health records for more than 99% of all children, no matter where they live, 2) minimising administration for health workers by 60% per beneficiary, 3) ensuring data quality of electronic medical records is above 99% for all health service delivery points, and 4) more than 95% of health centres perform continuous actions to improve quality of health service delivery, based on key performance indicators.