Engineering Manager at Maisha Meds

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.