Engineering Manager

Job Description

You will be expected to:

• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environment
• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams.
• Work on cross-team initiatives to improve the applications and system.
• Work in a cross-functional team to design, build and deliver new features for our systems.
• Strive to reduce complexity of the systems.
• Create awareness of engineering efforts and achievements.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to drive success.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• 8+ years of experience building and working on cutting edge solutions that scale for millions of customers.
• 3+ years of experience building and managing high-performance engineering teams.
• Solid experience with development CI/CD, Automation, Testing and Deploying large systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers
• Solid experience of building systems using a variety of different architectures.
• Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security using best practices
• Proven history as an experienced engineer.
• A passion for building products to help African businesses.
• A proactive approach to solve a problem before it has occurred.
• Mentorship – ability to successfully transfer knowledge
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, and best practices.
• Solid experience with build tools.
• Solid experience with source control, like Git.
• Hands-on experience in writing unit, integration and UI tests.
• High analytical thinking to tackle complicated issues.
• High-quality working standards with a clear structured approach.
• Takes full ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes.
• Strives to continuously improve the systems and processes.
• Proven experience of empowering teams with AI-assisted software engineering.