About the role

  • Engineering Manager leading innovative software solutions for millions of Paystack users. Guiding engineering teams in a fast-paced, competitive environment across Africa.

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 systems.
  • Work in a cross-functional team to design, build, and deliver new features for our systems.
  • Strive to reduce the 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.
  • Solid experience with development, CI/CD, Automation, Testing, and deploying large systems.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers
  • Solid experience in 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 solving a problem before it occurs.
  • 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.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Self-motivation that drives them to do things and pushes them to raise the bar.
  • 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.
  • Bonus: Experience with EMV payments

Benefits

  • 13th-month bonus
  • Flexible working environment (including work from home budgets)
  • Full medical coverage
  • Wellbeing stipend
  • Generous leave and sabbatical policies

Job title

Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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