Intermediate Full-Stack Developer

Intermediate Full-Stack Developer: help get medicines to 400 million people around the world

We're the mSupply Foundation. Somehow we've ended up being the stewards of a suite of software products that are by far the most widely used for medicine supply chain management in 42 countries in the low/middle income world. Our software is built by default for the needs of low and middle income countries, which brings with it interesting technical challenges - building a sync system for patchy, intermittent internet connections, and making software that will be deployed on local hardware.

We're on the journey of building a new open source version of our software. It's amazing how far we've got. It's amazing how far we have to go.

We need to increase our team size to do the good work that we've already committed to in the next few years, and we need some senior developers who can think, do, code, lead, mentor, strategise and more.

We try to provide a supportive, friendly environment where each of us can grow and thrive. Please only apply if the thing we're trying to do (contribute to a world where everyone has access to the medicines they need), is something that would motivate you.

We have a great team. You'll love them. That is, you'll get lots of friendly support.

This role is a two-year fixed-term contract aligned with our current project timeline. That said, we have a 20-year track record of retaining staff, and we invest in long-term development and training. We plan and train for continuity and growth, and always aim to be able to keep staff on long term.

Summary of our AI stance: we use it where it helps (both in our development and in our products), but use careful judgement to evaluate when it really helps

Job Description

• We're building and maintaining our open source software ), used in over 40 countries. You would be working across our full stack, with a strong focus on our Rust-based server and GraphQL API.
• Own significant features and technical decisions, working independently while collaborating with the team on architecture and design.
• Be involved in our development cycle of software components, including development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Work with the team to ensure the scalability, reliability and performance of our software so our clients with patchy internet don't struggle with using it.
• Help mentor junior developers and contribute to our technical documentation and best practices.
• Collaborating closely with the team to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet our clients' needs.

Useful Skills

• You need to like software in general, and be able to understand software from a user perspective
• You don't wait for problems to solve themselves, you jump in with initiative and creative solutions. You've got the judgment to know when to run with an idea solo and when to bring others into the conversation
• Able to prioritise tasks well
• Great people skills - you'll be working with a team, helping them to do their jobs well and treat our clients well. You'll need to be clear, considerate, friendly, and empathetic. Team player
• Communicate clearly in a technical context, including explaining complex technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with agile and scrum practices is helpful

Useful Technical Skills

• A solid understanding of relational databases (we use PostgreSQL and SQLite)
• Experience with system architecture and API design

• Technical Experience

• Rust (or strong interest in learning - this is our server language)

• Typescript
• GraphQL
• Git and Gitflow
• SQL (PostgreSQL and SQLite)
• React
• Webpack
• npm/yarn
• Capacitor, Electron and Java

Other stuff, important stuff

• We're based in Auckland, and our future Developer will need to be as well (hopefully you).
• We will pay a salary that is fair.

We know that men tend to apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the qualifications, while women and people from other minority groups tend to only apply for jobs when they meet nearly all of them. With that in mind, if you like the sound of the job, we encourage you to apply

Only via email to .foundation please - we will not consider your application if you just click "Apply now"

Send us the usual stuff (CV. If you've written any code that's publicly available, include a link, thanks), plus your answers to the following questions.

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