Job Description

Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re looking for Maisha Meds, 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 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, initially managing our patient programs projects team, eventually starting a new team for new projects. Our organisation 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 with expected travel to our countries of operation. You will report to Chief Technology Officer.

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 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: 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.