Engineering Manager Job at Maisha Meds

Maisha Meds is an organisation dedicated to improving health care in Africa. We began full-time operations in 2017 and over the past few years have grown to support over 1.5 million patient encounters annually across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia with our suite of software products. We are building the financial and technology infrastructure to enable global health funders to pay for health outcomes at the last mile, with a focus on malaria case management (and results from a RCT with UC Berkeley due out later this year), injectable contraceptives, prenatal care, HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, and COVID testing and vaccination.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Remote

About the Role

• We are seeking an engineering manager to manage our wonderful engineers to build technology to improve healthcare in Africa.
• Maisha Meds builds 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.