- Role: Android Developer
- Organization: Maisha Meds
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
At Maisha Meds, we’re passionate about building software that makes healthcare accessible and affordable for patients worldwide. We partner with important institutions in global health to test incentive structures to support universal healthcare, make health systems digital and mobile first, and make care affordable and higher quality for patients. If these types of projects excite you, we’d love for you to join us.
About You
We’re looking for a creative, experienced, and motivated developer to help scale our product suite across Kenya. Candidates should be excited about the prospect of taking a leadership role in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment, be interested in helping a budding tech ecosystem develop, and have a penchant for adventure. You will be joining a small, enthusiastic tech team of 3-4 people, and come on board in the middle of an aggressive scaling period. As such you’ll have the chance to make a large and visible impact on our company, and the autonomy to build our tech to thrive at scale.
Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate that they can learn quickly, adapt to changing circumstances, and aren’t intimidated by difficult tasks that they might not have experience solving. Candidates should additionally be mission driven and excited about the prospect of building tech to improve healthcare for people across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Side note: living in Kenya is seriously fun – Nairobi has a large and dynamic expat community, you’ll get to make regular trips to beautiful Kisumu, on the shores of lake Victoria, and, perhaps most importantly, you’ll get to work on a product that could improve the health of people across East Africa.
Responsibilities
- Build new features to support our rapidly growing client base
- Help with product development and management
- Support stability improvements and bug fixes
- Assist with UI and UX design if you’re interested
- Assist on other components of the product stack if you’re interested
Or (almost) anything else that you’re interested in. Our philosophy is that you should work on what gets you the most excited. Obviously, this has to align at least somewhat with our business priorities, but we’re flexible!
Sound exciting? Here’s who we are looking for.
Skills & Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 2+ years of mobile development or equivalent general software engineering experience and the ability to demonstrate that you can learn quickly
- Knowledge of Android best practices
- Experience with Kotlin and/or Java preferred
- Proven ability to write production-quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
- Experience scaling mobile or web products
- Ability to write clean, well-documented code
- Ability to evaluate and prioritize a long list of dependent and independent tasks based on business and technical constraints
- Ability to communicate with non-technical staff to develop and improve features
- Effective problem solving skills including decision making and time management
- Entrepreneurial nature, creativity, resourcefulness, and a sense of humor
- The ability to work well with a culturally diverse team
- A sense of humor
