p.s. For those of you who don't know me yet, I'm a TIER alumnus, graduated 2007, and working for Dimagi since the beginning of the year.
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Senior Engineer
at Dimagi
Charlestown, MA 02129
Dimagi is a socially-conscious technology company that helps organizations deliver quality health care to urban and rural communities around the world.
Our primary clients are hospitals, NGOs, nonprofits, governments and foundations. Our team of exceptional doctors, researches, and engineers apply their experience in global health care delivery and technology development to further personal and public health. We inhabit a fast-paced environment with many small and large projects, supporting like-minded groups across the globe to implement our technology and we strive to build local capacity for our projects. To support these efforts, we lead several open source communities in Electronic Health Records and Mobile Health to make our technology accessible for current and future implementers.
We work on a broad range of issues, including strengthening community health programs, electronic medical records, care coordination, and remote data collection. We have projects in Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, Senegal, Mexico, Nigeria, Kenya, Afghanistan and the United States.
We are seeking a full-time programmer to join our core team in Boston and lead or support development on multiple projects. The ideal candidate prefers small organizations to large ones, multi-tasking to single-project assignments, and enjoys travel and field work. Our developers share a passion for rapid prototyping, design iteration, and focusing on making things work in the field Depending on the specific skill set and preference, the candidate would immediately focus on one of several potential roles:
- Core developer on a project to coordinate cancer care with various domestic partners and systems for a NIH funded research project with Boston Medical Center.
- Core developer on an open source J2ME mobile health application for community health workers.
- Core developer on a C# based medical record system that is the national HIV care system in Zambia and being piloted in Ethiopia.
- Core developer on a Python/Django based web application to help manage community health programs.
Required Skills
- Excellent programming skills
- Excellent technical documentation
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills to troubleshoot complex deployments
- Self-managed
Desired Skills
- Mobile development experience
- GUI design experience
- Providing mentorship for students and volunteers
Love your work.
At Dimagi, you will have tremendous freedom to pursue your own interests and grow your skill set as well as make a real impact around the world. The position is available immediately.