Backend Engineer (Volunteer)

Compensation: No equity

About Us

BawaHealth is building an integrated telemedicine + clinical digitization platform that brings fast, affordable care to patients across Africa. We are digitizing the healthcare workflow, from booking to teleconsultation to EHR to payments, starting in Ghana.

We recently completed an MVP pilot with a partner hospital and are now building a scalable V2.

If you’re passionate about using technology to transform healthcare and improve lives, we’d love to hear from you.

Role

We’re looking for a talented Backend Engineer (Volunteer) to help design, build, and scale our core backend services.

You’ll work closely with the founding team and mobile/web engineers to evolve our product from MVP to a production-ready platform serving hospitals, doctors, and patients.

What You’ll Do

Design and build backend services and APIs

Improve system reliability, performance, and security

Integrate with external services (payments, messaging, medical services)

Optimize data models and workflows for clinical environments

Support the onboarding of hospitals, clinics, and specialists

Collaborate with mobile/frontend teams to ship product quickly

What We’re Looking For

2+ years experience in backend development

Strong skills in Node.js / Fastify / Express / TypeScript (preferred)

Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases

Familiarity with microservices and architectural patterns

Understanding of auth systems (JWT, RBAC, OAuth)

Comfortable owning features end-to-end

Excited about healthcare and emerging markets

Nice to Have

Experience with AWS / GCP / Azure

Healthcare systems experience (EHR, clinical workflows)

Realtime communication experience (WebRTC, WebSockets)

Why Join

Build a product that improves access to healthcare for millions

Collaborate with mission-driven founders

Gain startup experience in a high-impact space

Flexible remote work

High potential for future paid/full-time role + equity opportunities