Engineering Manager
Maisha Meds
WorldwideremotePosted 10 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Salary: $90,000 - $160,000 USD
- Role is fully remote (worldwide)
- Requires travel to Africa a few times a year
- Managed by Chief Technology Officer
- Initial focus on patient programs project team
Role overview
Maisha Meds is an organization dedicated to improving health care in Africa through best-in-class technology. Since 2017, they have built the largest digital network of private pharmacies and clinics across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia, using mobile software to help providers manage sales, inventory, and patient care, while providing subsidies for malaria, family planning, and HIV prevention.
Responsibilities
- Manage a remote team of 3-6 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
- Provide hands-on technical leadership (architecture and design, code reviews, and incident management) to your reports
- Independently contribute to projects 20% of your time to gain a deep technical understand of the infrastructure end-to-end
- Engage with stakeholders directly and product manage at times
- 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
Requirements
- Manage a remote team across North America, Europe, and Africa
- Report to the Chief Technology Officer
- Ability to travel onsite to countries of operation a couple of times a year
Nice to have
- Preferred prior experience with Ruby on Rails and devops with AWS infrastructure
- You have worked at startups as well as mature tech organizations
- You have experience in both B2B and B2C environments
- You have prior experience in healthcare and/or Africa
Benefits
- Doubling year-over-year growth with new funding partnerships
- Backed by veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, mPharma, and I&M bank
- Supported by funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID Development Innovation Ventures, CIFF, WHO FIND, and Pfizer
- Fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers staff to make an impact
Additional details
- Role is remote (worldwide)
- Salary range is $90,000 - $160,000 USD commensurate with experience and location
- Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, Android Kotlin
- Organization operates in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania
- Targeting expansion to 7,500 total pharmacies and clinics by late 2026
- Originally posted on Himalayas