Engineering Manager leading remote engineers building pharmacy, clinic, and patient - program technology. Managing technical delivery for Maisha Meds’ healthcare platform across Africa.
About the role
- Engineering Manager at ZayZoon overseeing Ruby on Rails development teams and mentoring developers. Focused on building solutions for employee financial wellness with a fully remote work environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead a pod of developers aligned to a specific persona (e.g., employee, employer) or growth segment (e.g., ACV, LTV)
- Conduct bi-weekly 1:1s, review weekly updates, resolve team issues (escalating when needed), and manage time-off planning to maintain team coverage
- Run all agile ceremonies (stand-up, planning, retro, backlog refinement) and drive strong team collaboration
- Partner with the PM and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product needs into scalable, secure technical solutions
- Architect new features with other leads, mentor developers, and advocate for addressing technical debt with clear, data-backed rationale
- Coordinate QA, ensure high-quality delivery, and establish meaningful, data-driven KPIs (via Metabase) to track impact against company priorities
Requirements
- 4+ years building and shipping production applications with Ruby on Rails
- Approximately 1 year of people management experience as a Team Lead or Manager, including leading regular 1:1s, mentoring engineers, and supporting their growth and performance
- Proven experience leading developers in a scrum/agile environment
- Strong communicator who bridges business and technical teams and navigates conflict with clarity and empathy
- Deep grounding in fundamentals: SOLID principles, domain-driven design, performant code/queries, and robust unit + integration testing
- Ability to move fast when experimenting and build clean, scalable solutions when MVP becomes core
- Full-stack ownership mindset from backend to frontend, testing, demos, and delivery
- Comfortable with modern dev tooling (Git, GitHub, Jira, your editor of choice) plus the ability to search for good gifs when merging pull requests
Benefits
- Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever
- Flexible Time Off: Whether it's a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – our “You-do-You” time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of our team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
- Instant Benefits: All full-time employees get access to medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day including increased mental health coverage and a wellness stipend
- Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more
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