Senior Software Engineer, Maisha Meds
$60-150k
Digital pharmaceutical infrastructure
Job no longer available
Digital pharmaceutical infrastructure
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$60-150k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve patient access to quality and affordable care by partnering with pharmacies and drug shops.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a senior software engineer preferably experienced in Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, and/or Android to improve health care across Africa!
- 4+ years of building quality applications
- A history of writing clean and well-documented code with automated tests
- Experience in building REST APIs
- Ability to scope large, abstract problems to small, concrete tasks
- Managed production deployments and owned infrastructure
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with a culturally diverse team (we're a mix of folks based in Kenya, Europe, and North America)
- Experience building systems for environments with limited or intermittent Internet connectivity is a plus
What the job involves
- Maisha Meds builds a point-of-sale Android app for pharmacies to track their sales and manage their inventory. On top of the Android app, we have a layer of features to help us administer programs so that patients visiting pharmacies can receive subsidized medication
- We also built a suite of web-based back office tools to help our operational staff manage the subsidy programs
- We're looking for an engineer to join our engineering team, and lead development for new and exciting features
- As a senior software engineer, an average day might involve
- Partner with the product team to scope out new features, proposing solutions and translating them into technical implementations
- Reviewing code from other engineers
- Doing independent work on a feature or bugfix ticket, writing tests and submitting a pull request for review
- Attending meetings (sprint planning, technical refinement, 1-1s) - We prefer scheduling calls in late afternoons/evenings East Africa Time (UTC+3) for broad overlap with folks across Africa, Europe and North America
Application process
- A 30-minute introductory call on Google Meet
- First round of technical interview (60-90 minutes) with two engineers on Google Meet focused on pair programming and implementation
- Second round of technical interview (60-90 minutes) with another two engineers on Google Meet focused on design and architecture
- One 30 minute conversation with team members from product and operational teams who collaborate closely with engineers on projects
- One 30 minute conversation with a member of the exec team
Our take
Maisha Meds is an organisation working to improve health care in Africa. Since its inception in 2017, it has grown to support over 4M patient encounters across Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, and Zambia through the company's suite of software products.
By building a financial and technology infrastructure, Maisha Meds is streamlining distribution and improving transparency in an environment where the majority of patients are accessing primary health care via the private sector and often paying cash for low-quality medicines. With a focus on malaria case management, injectable contraceptives, and prenatal care, Maisha Meds is enabling global health funders to pay for health outcomes at the last mile.
Backed by USAID Development Innovation Ventures, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Pfizer, the startup is looking to build further relationships with multilateral global health funders, pharmaceutical companies and national health insurance funds.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$5.3m
GRANT
Dec 2018
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $5.3m
Company HQ
City Square, Nairobi, Nairobi County
Leadership
Jessica Vernon
(CEO)Previously worked as a Research and Evaluations Manager at Innovations for Poverty Action and as a Clinical Product Manager at Lyra Health.
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