Full Stack Web Developer at Médecins Sans Frontières

MSF Eastern Africa is looking for a Full Stack Web Developer

Do your skills and experience not precisely match the requirements? At MSF EA, we strive to create a safe, diverse and inclusive workplace, recognizing the need to increase access to professional opportunities for historically underrepresented groups. If you're interested in this position but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the selection criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the ideal candidate for this or other positions.

Firmly committed to safeguarding patients, community members, staff, and all those in contact with the organization from all forms of abuse, including sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH), we will take all necessary steps, through rigorous vetting processes, to ensure that confirmed perpetrators of abuse do not join the organization.

For this position, contact level with patients and children is categorized as Low Risk and will be monitored with this in regard.

Introduction

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organisation that provides assistance to people affected by conflicts, epidemics, and natural or human-made disasters and excluded from healthcare. We provide this assistance without discrimination, irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

About MSF Eastern Africa

MSF Eastern Africa is the regional institutional office of MSF. It focuses on representation and networking, recruiting and supporting staff from the region, communications and fundraising, as well as working on other dossiers of importance to MSF such as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Data Protection, mutualization, training, medical operational support and environmental health.

Rationale/Objective for Position

The Full Stack Web Developer is responsible for developing, maintaining, and continuous evolution of web platforms and applications that support MSF’s operational and medical-humanitarian activities.

This position will be hierarchically and functionally accountable to Applications and Development Specialist.

• Job Location: MSF Eastern Africa office in Nairobi (Kenya)
• Contract: Open Ended, full-time contract.
• Start date: ASAP.

Technical and Operational Responsibilities

Web Development

• Develop, configure, and deploy web applications following industry best practices and MSF standards.
• Build and maintain full-stack solutions.
• Develop and extend websites and applications based on October CMS (Laravel/PHP) and Drupal.

System Maintenance and Evolution

• Maintain, upgrade, and optimize existing web platforms to ensure reliability, security, and performance.
• Implement responsive UI, reusable components, and integration layers aligned with MSF requirements.
• Contribute to the evolution of the web architecture and technical stack.

Technology Assessment & Integration

• Investigate and evaluate web technologies, frameworks, and CMS capabilities as part of product lifecycle management.
• Propose solutions and design integration approaches to fit within MSF’s wider IT ecosystem.

Collaboration & Strategic Input

• Collaborate with IT teams, product owners, and subject matter experts to refine requirements and deliver robust solutions.
• Provide input to long-term digital strategy, roadmaps, and architectural decisions.
• Contribute to documentation, guidelines, and coding standards to support consistency and knowledge sharing.

Operational Support

• Support incident responders for web applications-related issues to ensure system reliability and availability.
• Assist in change implementation and deployments in collaboration with DevOps engineers.

Other Responsibilities

• Integrate EDI & Safeguarding aspects in area of work responsibility, including policies and practices.
• Recognize, respond, and document any form of abuse or inappropriate behavior and alert the safeguarding unit of any suspected potential abuse.
• Proactively participate in the individual performance management process including objective setting, performance monitoring and performance evaluation.

• Salary: An annual salary of EUR 23, 296 at HQ Grade 7 based on a full-time appointment with an annual increment of 2% every year up to a maximum of 10 years.
• Work-life balance financial benefit; ranging between EUR 247 to 295/month based on individual & administrative status. This amount may be used to cover accommodation and utilities, transportation, etc.
• Other benefits include; 25 days of annual leave, Employer Pension contribution and medical insurance cover (staff and family) based on MSF EA terms/conditions.