About Palladium:

  Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.  

Project Background:
Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a $180 million project which serves as USAID’s primary mechanism for data, technology, and health information systems to support HIV activities across strategic PEPFAR countries.  Data.FI is part of a suite of large-scale global HIV programs that USAID has awarded and represents the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. Data.FI plays a key role in USAID’s goals of helping partner countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance and transitioning local organizations to prime recipients of USG funding. 

The overall goal of the Data.FI project is to improve global, regional, and national in-depth analyses of HIV epidemiologic and program data that can be directly applied to expedite the achievement of PEPFAR targets to attain and sustain control of the HIV epidemic.  The focus also includes directly supporting host country governments and implementing partners to further enhance existing health information system platforms to inform management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV/AIDS programming.  In order to ensure rapid access to high quality data, Data.FI works towards: accelerating data utilization to rapidly course correct and take to scale cost-effective and impactful activities, models and approaches required to attain and maintain HIV epidemic control; scaling and optimizing in-country health information system capabilities to collect, exchange, adapt, govern, and visualize information in order to track the attainment and maintenance of HIV epidemic control; and supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable local partners.

Position Summary: 

The Backend Developer / API Integration Specialist leads the development of robust, secure backend services that enable interoperability between national health systems such as DHIS2, LMIS, eRIS, and EMRs. This role focuses on creating scalable APIs, middleware services, and data flows that support seamless information exchange. The position is integral to strengthening Ethiopia’s digital health architecture through modular, standards-based design and strong collaboration with government and implementing partners

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement secure, scalable RESTful APIs and middleware to support system-to-system interoperability.

• Ensure all integrations comply with national interoperability standards (e.g., HL7 FHIR, OpenHIE, IHE profiles).

• Maintain backend services and data models that ensure timely and accurate data exchange between systems.

• Lead the integration of legacy systems with modern digital health platforms, identifying and resolving compatibility issues.

• Monitor API performance, usage, and error handling to ensure robust operations and timely issue resolution.

• Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and frontend teams to ensure seamless deployments and testing.

• Develop technical documentation and contribute to training and knowledge transfer initiatives.

• Work with MoH and partners to troubleshoot real-time integration challenges in production environments.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Minimum 4 years of backend development experience with a focus on integration.

• Strong experience in API development, Node.js, Python, Java, or related tools.

• Familiarity with HL7, FHIR, OpenHIE, and health data standards is required.

• Experience with Docker, Swagger/OpenAPI, and secure API management.

 Equity, Diversity & Inclusion -

• Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.

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