Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) is a global health organization that partners locally and globally to create and scale solutions to the world’s deadliest health threats. Millions of people die from preventable health threats. We collaborate to close the gap between proven, life-saving solutions and the people who need them. Since 2017, we’ve worked with governments and other partners in more than 60 countries to save millions of lives. We work toward a future where people live longer, healthier lives, communities flourish, and economies thrive. This is an ambitious vision, and it inspires us and our partners to make progress every day.
The Digital Team at RTSL is implementing or helping to implement cutting-edge digital tools such as the Simple app, DHIS2 and Africa Covid Dashboard. We work with national and regional health organizations to accelerate progress and advancing the use of digital technologies to save lives through our approach of simplicity, speed, and scale.
Resolve to Save Lives seeks a Backend Engineer to help build and maintain digital tools that support public health programs focused on cardiovascular health, hypertension, and diabetes control. Our digital tools help Ministries of Health and implementing partners manage large-scale health programs, improve data quality, and support healthcare workers who serve millions of patients. The engineering team works across open-source products and integrations, including Simple, DHIS2, and the HEARTS360 toolkit.
This role is ideal for a software engineer with professional experience developing backend applications who is looking for an opportunity to grow their technical skills while contributing to meaningful global health impact. You will work closely with engineers, program teams, and external partners to develop reliable software, support system integrations, and improve the quality and scalability of our digital platforms.
While much of our integration and data-processing work is Python-based, the role also supports applications built in Ruby on Rails and integrations with Java-based systems. We are looking for engineers who are excited to learn new technologies and work across a diverse technical environment.
Length of engagement: 12 months fixed-term employment with possibility of renewal based on funding and mutual interest.
Location: This is a remote position open to candidates based in India, Nigeria or Ethiopia
Simple is a free, open-source application and dashboard, written in Ruby, that healthcare workers use to manage patients with high blood pressure.
DHIS2 is an open-source health information platform written in Java and maintained by the University of Oslo. We're collaborating closely with the University of Oslo to adapt DHIS2 into a strong alternative to Simple for countries already using it for other health information needs.
H360TK is a lightweight, self-hostable toolkit built by our team for standing up hypertension and diabetes program dashboards with limited infrastructure. It integrates with electronic health record systems, ingests patient line-list data, loads it into PostgreSQL through Python pipelines, and surfaces it through Grafana dashboards.
As a member of the team, you will contribute to open-source software projects that support public health programs. Your work will help keep these tools reliable, secure, and useful for the teams and partners who depend on them.
The Backend Engineer will support the development, maintenance, and reliability of our backend systems and integrations.
We are seeking a candidate with strong software development skills, preferably in the language our software is written in. However, we value motivation and a willingness to learn missing skills just as much.
Resolve to Save Lives prides itself on cultivating a supportive, connected remote team doing work that matters. We do everything possible to ensure our employees are connected and set up for success.
The salary for this role is competitive and set according to national labor rates for the international NGO sector. The exact offer will be determined by various factors, such as the candidate’s skills and experience relative to the requirements of the role.
In addition to a competitive salary, Resolve to Save Lives provides a generous package of benefits, including:
RTSL believes its programs are strengthened when they are developed and supported by individuals with diverse life experiences whose understanding of social and cultural issues can help make our work and workforce more inclusive. We encourage applications from and provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, organ donor status, or status as a veteran. Resolve to Save Lives complies with all applicable US EEO laws.
Our mission is to accelerate action against the world’s deadliest health threats.
Millions of people die from health threats that are avoidable. These deaths don’t just devastate families, they also weaken communities and economies. Solutions exist but are out of reach for too many people. We collaborate to close the gap between proven, life-saving solutions and the people who need them.
Resolve to Save Lives works with partners to accelerate action against the world’s deadliest health threats. We use technical, operational, and policy approaches to identify leading health threats that can be stopped, rapidly co-create and test simple solutions, and scale up proven solutions worldwide.
