Engineering Manager
Job description
Engineering Manager at Maisha Meds responsible for managing a remote team of 3-6 engineers and providing hands-on technical leadership while building technology to improve healthcare in Africa. The role reports to the Chief Technology Officer and involves travel to countries of operation.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Pay
- USD 90,000 – 160,000 / year
What you'll do
- Manage a remote team of 3-6 creative engineers spanning across several projects
- Foster a welcoming friendly 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
- Independently contribute to projects 20% of your time to gain a deep technical understanding of the infrastructure end-to-end
- Engage with stakeholders directly and product manage yourself at times
- Work across teams and both internal and external stakeholders to execute on projects
What we're looking for
- Experience managing a remote team of engineers
- Hands-on technical leadership experience (architecture and design, code reviews, incident management)
- Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder desires into concrete requirements and action plans
- Ability to understand customers and users and provide product direction
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
On a roll: We are doubling year-over-year with new funding partnerships that are boosting expansion in multiple countries
Great team: We are founded, managed, and backed by successful veterans of Stanford School of Medicine, Google, mPharma, and I&M bank. We have technologists, doctors, and economists working side by side to solve difficult problems.
Great funders: We're supported 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: We are 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 the best quality care.
- Great customers: We create financial incentives that ensure our health care providers deliver excellent care.
- Impact: We have cultivated a fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its talented staff to make a huge impact.
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About Maisha Meds
Maisha Meds is an organization dedicated to improving health care in Africa through best-in-class technology. Founded in 2017, Maisha Meds logs millions of patient visits every year and has provided hundreds of thousands of reimbursements to date. We harness data from our network of pharmacies and clinics to reveal health and market trends, which allows us to design better solutions that work for the people we serve.
Mission
Improving health care in Africa through best-in-class technology.
Key facts
- 2017
- Healthcare technology
- Logs millions of patient visits every year
- Has provided hundreds of thousands of reimbursements to date
- Worked with leading academic institutions such as UC Berkeley, Emory University, and KEMRI
- Research shows the system significantly increases the uptake of long-acting contraceptives and appropriate malaria case management
- Funded by USAID Development Innovation Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Expanding mobile software to 7,500 total pharmacies and clinics by late 2026
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