Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Impeccable problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• High agency and the ability to work independently
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and tools

Benefits

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Experience with machine learning and data analytics