Position Type: Full Time
Location: Anywhere
Reports To: CEO
Company Description:
Lime Care is a digital health company focusing on providing telehealth, flexible and sustainable financing, knowledge sharing and public health analytics web and mobile products to patients in hospitals, clinics, healthcare centres and university systems in Ethiopia and other countries with emerging healthcare systems.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Set strategy and establish standards and ensure compliance and accuracy for the company’s IT performance, including cloud architectures, server technologies, data warehouse, and communication technologies. Align technology-related decisions with the organization’s goals.
- Develop and implement technology and digital health road map with short term/annual and long term/5-year budget plans
- Develop our technology strategy to build a medical digital app that will be clinically validated and comply with medical device regulations
- Define and implement the hardware platform, software platform/technology stack, and systems infrastructure for our product
- Act as Chief Product Officer. Build industry-leading online experiences that create value for members/providers/brokers.
- Identify, negotiate contracts, and work with best-in-breed technology vendors to deliver key health plans services to members/providers/brokers. Build and manage Agile Scrum Team who is responsible for defining Stories, prioritizing the Backlog, and maintaining consistency and integrity of the Solution.
- Lead the development of our application: Prototypes for different stages of experiments, and the final product
- Build the capabilities to design and optimally build-out network and data center platforms. This includes organizing and managing technical staff and overall operations infrastructure as well as managing the allocation of resources, including budget, schedules, activities, facilities, equipment, and expertise, in order to meet published service levels and project commitments.
- Oversight of all infrastructure elements including but not limited to servers, storage management, database management, virtualization, recovery management. Identify strategic data and voice communications direction for the health plan with redundancy and cost control/reduction. Overall performance and availability of the network, performance and capacity.
- Establish policies, standards, practices, and security measures to assure effective and consistent information and operations. Prepare and keep current documentation on all managed systems, including disaster recovery plans.
- Ensure security best practices are implemented and revised, as needed, to maintain the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the information stored on and accessed through the network (firewalls, file rights, backup systems, account management, vulnerability testing, etc.
- Implement necessary processes for a digital medical device development setup: ISO certification for quality management, technical documentation, and data protection
- Work closely with our regulatory and clinical investigations team to successfully conduct clinical investigations, and apply for regulatory approval, risk management evaluations etc.
- Communicate the technology strategy to partners and investors
- Decide on the overall company strategy as a member of the leadership team
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree is required. Master degree is preferred.
- At least 4 years of hands-on IT experience. Experience managing and configuring IT infrastructure in a cloud-based environment (e.g., AWS, GoDaddy, Core Admin/Claims System, hosted systems).
- Proven experience as a CTO or similar leadership role in digital technology companies, startups or similar
- Considerable years of experience in developing technology, ideally in a medically regulated context, in a pharmaceutical, medical device or neuroscience/psychology-based company
- Knowledge on current digital technology and development trends, e.g., VR/AR/MR, smart wearables, agile framework
- Knowledge in the latest trends in AI (i.e. classifications, recommender systems, computer vision, GANs, deep learning) and the ability to discriminate the valuable advancements from the hype
- Track record of building successful consumer digital products, e.g., web applications, games, mobile apps or similar
- Experience with mobile native development frameworks
- Understanding of budgets and business-planning
- Experience with international data protection requirements
What we offer
- Pay with commensurate experience
- Medical and Dental Benefits
- Equity in company
- Paid time off
- Educational support
Schedule and Hours
- This position will require the ability to work Monday – Friday 9AM to 5PM Ethiopian time and flexibility to be on-call as needed.
- Position can be remote with some travel required