Junior Developer

Prefered skills

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Front-End Development, .NET Framework, Git, User Experience (UX), Web Accessibility, Tailwind CSS, ASP.NET MVC, Blazor

Job description

Junior Developer

Number of Available Positions: 1
Location: Candidates must be based in Cape Town  
Salary: from R30 000 p/m 
Contract: All roles run until the end of March 2024 with the opportunity for renewal

Job Description

Time for your software development skills to change lives.

Through African Ideas, the Western Cape Department of Health, Health Intelligence Directorate, is looking to hire a skilled front-end developer to join a highly motivated engineering team at the Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC). The PHDC consolidates all person-level health data in the Province in order to support service delivery and patient care, especially for priority health conditions such as HIV and TB. It is one of the few public sector health data environments on the continent with sufficient coverage of person-level health data to explore many of the innovative approaches which are emerging as ways to potentially improve health care.

The engineering team works on core components of the province's health technology environment, focusing on building reliable enterprise software that is reusable, interoperable and open source. This includes an electronic health record application used by clinicians to access patient data from the PHDC, interfaces and APIs for interoperating with other systems, and works closely with the data science team on a range of outputs intended to support or improve service delivery.

Relevant Tertiary qualifications and /or applicable courses; and

• Minimum 2 years experience in a Microsoft Junior Developer or Equivalent role
• Matric essential

One or more of the following: 

• a well-tended, active sharable git repository with relevant work
• a record of relevant significant online coursework
• a portfolio of relevant work
• 1+ year in a front-end software development role

Necessary Experience

• A solid understanding of CSS and responsive design
• Experience writing front-end JavaScript

Advantageous Experience

• .NET
• Git
• UX/UI design
• Strong understanding of web accessibility
• Tailwind and other CSS frameworks (esp. Bootstrap)
• Experience with or willingness to work on MVC applications
• Experience with reactive JavaScript frameworks and/or Blazor. 

Products
Successful applicants will be primarily working on the software products:

Single Patient Viewer (SPV) and Open Integrated Health Platform (OpenIHP) is a multi-tier C# .Net MVC application that is used by hundreds of public health clinicians, epidemiologists and other staff to manage the health of patients in the public health system, and has been used as part of the provinces COVID-19 response. It provides the front-end for visualizing a patient's longitudinal clinical data collected across the health system as well as a fully configurable platform for capturing data, and a reporting portal which integrates with a number of different reporting engines.

Patient-facing apps. Providing patients with access to their own health data, and a secure
communication channel with the health department, is on the development roadmap to extend the
platform.