Engineering Manager
Maisha Meds · International Remote
Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re seeking an engineering manager to manage our wonderful engineers to build technology to improve healthcare in Africa.
About the role
Maisha Meds builds a point-of-sale Android app for pharmacies to track their sales and manage their inventory and leverage AI to improve directions of use for medicines. On top of the Android app, we have a layer of features to help us run patient programs so that patients visiting pharmacies can receive subsidized care. 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, initially managing our patient programs projects team, eventually starting a new team for new projects. Our organization operates in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Tanzania and we would love to have you join us onsite a couple of times a year.
Salary commensurate with experience and location.
Responsibilities
People and Team
- 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.
Technical Leadership
- 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.
- Preferred prior experience with Ruby on Rails and devops with AWS infrastructure.
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
