Engineering Manager
Free to start · No card · 5 credits the moment you sign up
Job description
Job Description
Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re seeking an engineering manager to manage our wonderful engineers to build technology to improve healthcare in Africa.
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 has created the largest digital network of private pharmacies and clinics across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia through our mobile software. Our platform not only helps these providers improve business by making sales, managing inventory, and tracking patients. It also reimburses them for providing high-quality care for malaria, family planning, and HIV prevention at discounted costs.
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. We have worked with leading academic institutions such as UC Berkeley, Emory University, and KEMRI to evaluate the effectiveness of our programs. Research shows that our system is able to significantly increase the uptake of long-acting contraceptives and appropriate malaria case management.
Our work is funded by a range of partners including scale-up funding from USAID Development Innovation Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This will help Maisha Meds greatly expand its mobile software to 7,500 total pharmacies and clinics by late 2026, delivering subsidized care to nearly a million new patients in the process.
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.
This role is remote (worldwide) with expected travel to our countries of operation. You will report to Chief Technology Officer. The salary range is $90,000 - $160,000 USD 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
Nice to haves
- 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
Why You Should Join Us
- 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.
Originally posted on Himalayas
Prepare your application
Use the description above to assess your fit for Maisha Meds. This checklist is guidance from Resumize, rather than additional requirements from the employer. Imported listings can be shortened or change after collection, so confirm the complete description and current availability before sending an application.
Match requirements to evidence
Identify the responsibilities and skills the employer explicitly names. For each important requirement, choose one example from your work, education, training, or projects. Explain what you did, how you did it, and what changed as a result. Include a measurable outcome when you can support it. If you lack a requirement, describe related experience accurately instead of adding an unfamiliar skill to your resume.
Put the most relevant examples near the top of your resume. Keep job titles, dates, qualifications, and contact details consistent across your application materials. Use the employer’s terminology when it describes your experience accurately; a copied list of keywords does not explain your contribution. A short, specific bullet is easier to review than a paragraph that mixes several unrelated duties.
Check the working arrangement
Confirm the location, schedule, employment type, and any eligibility requirements on the employer’s site. A remote label does not establish worldwide eligibility or flexible hours. If compensation, benefits, equipment, travel, or contract duration are missing from this listing, write down your questions for the recruiter. Do not assume details from another opening at the same company apply to this role.
Review before submitting
Follow the employer’s requested file format and application instructions. Open your exported resume and check that its text is selectable, its sections read in order, and its links work. Proofread names, dates, and contact information. Share confidential work samples only when you have permission, and use an anonymized example when necessary.
Submit through a trusted employer or recruiting destination. If the original listing has disappeared, search the employer’s careers page for the title rather than assuming the vacancy remains open. Save the application date, job reference, and the version of your resume you sent. Those details help you prepare for a later conversation and avoid submitting conflicting information through several job boards.
Review your resume for writing and readability feedback, or browse other openings if this opportunity is unavailable.