Hybrid Engineering Manager

at Talent Safari

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lagos, Nigeria

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