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
Apply via :
a.bamboohr.com
