Director, Software Engineering at Living Goods

4 weeks ago

Burbank, United States JobWebKenya Full time

Job Description At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights. By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women. Living Goods supports a network of over 2, micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products.

We are looking for someone who can:

Provide leadership oversight of 10+ software engineers, including employees, contractors, and third-party partners.

Participate in strategy conversations the organization in general and technology in particular.

Develop an understanding of organizational goals and requirements, and develop a vision to translate those requirements to the technical end-product.

Work in alignment with project leadership and internal & external stakeholders to deliver projects on time, with high quality, and that meet client needs.

Partner with cross functional teams, stakeholders, product owners, and operational managers to deliver software solutions in alignment with organizational objectives.

Be the team’s representative among senior and project leadership, effectively managing upwards and downwards.

Develop and deliver regular communication including software delivery status and risks to senior management.

Determine appropriate work load for engineers and develop engineer’s skills in alignment with their career goals and organizational future needs.

Has a strong Software Engineering background and deep knowledge of agile development practices, TDD/BDD, automated builds, continuous integration, Cloud & container infrastructure.

Has experience across the entire software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production.

Is an experienced leader who has built effective teams that deliver results across the organization; technical experts, managers and future leaders.

Has confidence to express own opinions, and pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.

Has the desire to learn and evaluate new technologies for cutting-edge solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with senior engineering staff to define and implement reliable, scalable, efficient and secure architectures operating in a cloud environment.

Create and execute key strategies to meet business outcomes and manage strategic relationships.

The ability to lead and influence C-level stakeholders.

Deliver high quality, high availability, highly reliable, scalable, and secure systems.

Lead the architecture, design, implementation and deployment of products, working with project teams to ensure effective translation of requirements into technical specifications, delivery of products to schedule with high quality.

Define and manage the entire software development lifecycle in an agile delivery environment focusing on continuous deployment at pace while maintaining quality and performance of software systems including supporting systems in production, responding to production incidents and managing unplanned work.

Grow, mentor, manage and inspire a growing team of software engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback and creating opportunities for learning and growth.

Strategic collaboration with senior management and stakeholders (e.g. Health, Operations, Innovation, Business Development, CHST, etc.) to define and build new features and products

Qualifications

BS/MS

in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

12+ years

of software engineering experience with a focus on high performing, innovative/creative and consumer-facing application and platforms.

7+ years

of leadership experience of which

5

should be direct management experience of a medium-size team i.e. 15+,

Previous hands-on experience developing web/mobile applications, transactional platforms from requirements gathering to delivery and support.

Proven ability to efficiently manage all aspects of the software development lifecycle in an Agile environment particularly multi-tier data-driven applications.

Preferably experience in Java, Android, Node, Javascript, React, Python and Linux.

Comfortable with integration, extension and modification of open-source tools.

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