Senior Frontend Engineer (VueJS / React)

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 for a Senior Frontend Engineer with strong expertise in Vue.js and React to design, build, and deliver high-quality web applications that power critical healthcare experiences.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Product Designers, Backend Engineers, QA Engineers, and other stakeholders to build scalable, accessible, performant, and intuitive products used by healthcare professionals and organizations across Africa.

The ideal candidate is not only an experienced frontend engineer but also someone who understands modern software engineering practices and is comfortable leveraging AI-powered development tools to improve productivity, code quality, testing, and problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-quality frontend applications using Vue.js and React.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, QA Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate product requirements and designs into intuitive user experiences.
• Build reusable, maintainable, and well-tested UI components and frontend architecture.
• Contribute to frontend technical architecture, design decisions, coding standards, and engineering best practices.
• Integrate frontend applications with RESTful APIs and other backend services.
• Manage complex application state using appropriate state-management patterns and tools.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code with appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Identify and resolve performance, usability, scalability, and reliability issues across frontend applications.
• Work closely with backend engineers to define and consume effective APIs and improve end-to-end application performance.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback that improves code quality and engineering practices.
• Contribute to technical planning, estimation, sprint planning, and delivery of engineering initiatives.
• Help establish and improve frontend development standards, tooling, testing strategies, and CI/CD processes.
• Effectively leverage AI tools and coding assistants to improve development efficiency, debugging, testing, documentation, and code quality while maintaining appropriate engineering judgment and security standards.
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to communicate technical decisions, manage expectations, and drive projects toward successful outcome