Engineering Manager

About Us

Simprints is a nonprofit tech company with a mission to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. We build ethical, inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to verify that health, aid, and services truly reach people. Simprints partners with organizations like Gavi to boost immunization rates in developing countries, Ministries of Health like Ghana on pandemic response, and NGOs like BRAC to deliver maternal healthcare. Studies have shown Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. Today we’ve worked in over 17 countries helping deliver health, aid, and finance to >3M people. Our goal is to transform the way the world fights poverty, ensuring that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our growing tech team. You will work in an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code, robust design, and a strong continuous learning and improvement culture. If supporting and empowering a team to build technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you! 

Simprints’ products developed and maintained by the team are the following:

• Simprints ID: A public Android app built with Kotlin, designed to function in the most demanding "last-mile" environments. This means it must run on low-end, old and slightly broken devices, frequently with very limited network access.
• Backend: GCP Cloud (mainly written in Go) managing SimprintsID API, licences, logs, deduplication, dashboards.
• Vulcan: Our back-office built in Angular to configure our different projects
• AI Team researching around biometrics

Job Details

• Job Title: Engineering Manager
• Reporting To: Chief Product Officer
• Grade: M7 - £65,000 - £75,000 - There is a cost of living adjustment applied to those outside of the UK.
• Location: This is a remote job; we are currently only able to take forward applicants based in the UK, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine, Latvia, Spain, Netherlands and Germany. The candidate must have the right to work in one of these countries. We are unable to support relocation or visa sponsorship. If you are not based in one of these countries, please do not apply for this role. We like collaboration and speak to each other several times a day - between 10am and 3pm UK time.

Department Overview

Primary Function: The Product and Engineering department at Simprints is focused on developing innovative biometric solutions to help solve the problems of our users. We take a product-centric approach, ensuring our technology drives social impact through close collaboration and user-focused design.

Key Goals:

• Enhance Biometric Solutions: Continuously improve our biometric products to ensure they are adaptable, reliable, and meet the diverse needs of our users.
• Drive Cross-Company Product Development: Promote collaboration across the entire company to accelerate the delivery of impactful, user-focused features.
• Ensure User Success: Go above and beyond to ensure our users benefit from our technology by providing ongoing support, troubleshooting, and guidance, while actively participating in decision-making and project implementation.

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting, coaching, and leading a fast-paced, cross-functional product & engineering team to deliver high-impact and high-quality work.
• Building a strong and enjoyable engineering culture.
• Guiding the personal and professional development of individual engineers.
• Evolving our ways of working, designing team processes, and developing us into an outstanding engineering organisation.
• You'll be deeply involved with expanding the team and helping us hire the right people from all backgrounds.
• Technically overseeing the technical design & architectural decisions made by the team.
• Skills:
• A passionate problem solver who can help us find a way to achieve our mission. 
• Experience and enthusiasm to lead, support and develop our team towards success in their projects and individual careers.
• A background in engineering that enables you to understand technical challenges and help the team push through them.
• You care about helping others to achieve their goals, mentoring & coaching them.
• You believe great communication is key and are able to articulate yourself through both excellent written documentation and conversation.
• You thrive when given a high level of responsibility and autonomy and are comfortable with the pace and uncertainties of a startup environment.
• Competencies:
• Confront The Grey (Transparent Communication)
• Find A Way (Delivery) 
• Remember Why We’re Here (Mission-First)

Benefits

5 Reasons to Join Simprints

Life is short. We believe work should be inspirational, meaningful and fun. At Simprints, we’re taking on global development’s biggest challenges, powered by an amazing culture and incredible people. Work with us, and you will grow faster, learn more, and take on great responsibilities with the potential to make lasting change.

1. Genuine Impact. Work directly with our partners and users to deliver technology that has the potential to impact millions of lives across the globe. At Simprints, you’ll be part of a team that is passionate about driving real change.

2. An incredible, diverse team. Our work is at the intersection of technology and global development, and we’ve managed to build an amazing team drawn from all over the world. But don’t take our word for it—we’re an externally recognized Great Place to Work, part of the Flexa Top 100 Most Flexible Companies and a 2022 Best Workplace for Women.

3. Mutual Flex. We champion a work culture where autonomy and trust are paramount, steering clear of mere face-time metrics. Whether it's managing life's essentials like healthcare appointments or adapting work hours to match your peak productivity times, we've got you covered. In return, we count on your reciprocal flexibility when mission-critical moments arise, like stepping up for a crucial client discussion on a Friday or tackling unexpected technical glitches beyond regular hours. 

4. Ultimate work-life balance. 

1. We offer a 4-day workweek, meaning everybody has the option to have Fridays off.
2. We also offer unlimited annual leave, which allows you to prioritize your well-being

As long as you're driving results and fostering teamwork, we encourage you to strike that perfect balance between your professional and personal life. Our commitment to this model's success is solidified through semi-annual productivity assessments with our board, ensuring that our high standards of performance are consistently met.

5. Professional development. We promote continual learning and put our money where our mouth is with development plans and access to global experts through the GLG network 

We also have a generous professional development budget for each colleague – “Eduprints”. Is there some training you’d like, or maybe you could benefit from professional coaching? Simply provide a business case that shares your aspirations and the resources you need, and we'll do our best to support you. 

We care about both your development in Simprints and your holistic long-term career goals. Simprints Alumni have gone on to work for Google, USAID, Gavi the vaccine alliance, Save the Children, and other top players.