Job Title: Engineering Manager
Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Manager / Supervisor
Details
- Maisha Meds is seeking an engineering manager to manage our wonderful engineers to build technology to improve healthcare in Africa.
About the Role
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- We build a point-of-sale Android app for pharmacies to track their sales and manage their inventory.
- On top of the Android app, we have a layer of features to help us administer programs so that patients visiting pharmacies can receive subsidized medication.
- We also built a suite of back office tools to help our operational staff manage the subsidy programs.
- This role is for an individual to manage a remote team of engineers across North America, Europe, and Africa working on projects related to the subsidy programs.
- Our organisation is based in Kenya and we would love to have you join us onsite a couple of times a year.
Responsibilities
As an engineering manager at Maisha Meds, you will be responsible for:
People and Team:
- Manage a remote team of 2-6 creative engineers spanning across several projects
- Foster a welcoming friendly and culture
- Grow and mentor engineers and help them pursue their career interests
- Provide good feedback for performance management and coaching
- Recruiting and hiring for your team when necessary
Technical Leadership:
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, code reviews, and incident management) to your reports
- Independently contribute to projects 10% of your time to gain a deep technical understand of the infrastructure end-to-end
- Preferred prior experience with Ruby on Rails or Android Kotlin
Product and Project Management:
- While we have product managers at Maisha Meds, at times, you’ll need to engage with stakeholders directly and product manage yourself
- Translate ambiguous stakeholder desires into concrete requirements and action plans
- Work across teams and both internal and external stakeholders to execute on projects
- Understand customers and users and be able to provide product direction
Our Technologies:
- Ruby on Rails
- Vue.js
- Android Kotlin
Nice to Haves
- You have worked at a growing start-up
- You have experience in both B2B and B2C environments
- You have prior experience in healthcare and/or Africa
Why You Should Join Us
- On a roll: Doubling year over year with new funding partnerships soon to be announced and recent expansion into Uganda, Nigeria, and Tanzania
- Great team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, Lions Head Investment Bank, I&M Bank. We have technologists, clinicians, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
- Great funders: We’re backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer to pay for healthcare on behalf of patients, with others to be announced soon.
- Huge market: Disrupting a massive, growing $50+ billion market for healthcare payments for low-income patients, with a focus on paying for health outcomes to ensure patients get better.
- Great customers: Create incentives that ensure our nurses, pharmacists, and clinicians provide excellent care and pay them when this happens.
- Impact: A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.
Application Closing Date
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Job Features
Job Category | Engineering / Technical |