Engineer Manager at Ona

Purpose

We are looking for an Engineer manager, you will be responsible for managing a team of engineers at Ona.  

At Ona we follow the Servant leadership philosophy of management. The main goal of the leader is to serve through sharing power, putting the needs of the employees first and helping people develop and perform as highly as possible.

Key roles and responsibilities

• Team Management
  • Mentor team members, hold 1-1’s, review technical work, help with non-technical challenges, e.g. communication, timeliness, and participate in career growth paths.
  • Ensure direct reports have what they need to succeed and are happy, inquire and understand the grievance of direct reports, communicate those to the leadership team.
  • Responsible for suggesting, implementing, and monitoring changes to team and organization structure.
  • Participation in the hiring process of engineers
  • Identify potential candidates within the team that best fit our roles (e.g. team leads, senior engineers.
  • Encourage, promote and ensure the use of best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD across teams and projects, and help others to improve the quality of their work.
  • Participate in the onboarding and offboarding processes for engineers
  • Lead the engineer planning/resourcing process and communicate assignments to the respective engineers.
• Product Management
  • Take lead in technical meetings and provide technical and coordination support to Ona’s partners / clients.
  • Assist in the development of a support strategy, and help with support requests when needed.
  • Engage with Product Managers and business stakeholders to define platform requirements.
  • Provide feedback and guidance to clients on work when necessary
  • Participate in task planning and release planning
• Architecture
  • Actively participate and contribute to architectural and technical stack choices
  • Partners with product management to align the roadmap with the technical design and strategy.
  • Responsible for designing and prototyping complex, cross platform business solutions to validate newer technologies.
  • Travel for technical reviews, workshops and onsite delivery activities
• Team and Company Ambassador
  • Provide training to clients and/or colleagues and/or in events or exhibitions where you are representing the company in any capacity.
  • Cross team communication within the organization.
  • Collaborate with key stakeholders within and across departments.

Key requirements

Essential

• Minimum 5 years programming production Java web applications
• Minimum 5 years programming production Android client applications
• Experience programming with APIs and service based architectures
• Experience with databases and their integration into web and Android applications
• Strong attention to detail and understanding of architectural dependencies
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills

Desirable

• Experience working with remote teams
• Experience with OpenSRP, OpenMRS, other EMRs
• Experience with Kotlin, Spring
• Experience with Postgres, SQLite, other relational, k/v, column-oriented, or log-based databases
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Alibaba Cloud, other IaaS and infrastructure as code systems
• Experience with Superset, NiFi, Kafka