Summary
The job is for an Engineering Manager role at Yassir's Europe tech hub, based in Berlin or Paris. The candidate will lead a team of financial services developers, own and build large-scale systems and microservices, and work with product and design teams to deliver powerful applications in a high-growth environment.
Requirements
- Good understanding and hands-on experience of TDD and DDD
- At least three years of work experience as an engineering manager or tech lead at an engineering department
- Extensive experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, continuous delivery, and modern human-computer interfaces
- Good understanding of agile methodologies
- Excellent leadership and project management skills, ideally experience managing remote teams
- Solid software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that is extensible, reusable, and meets desired architectural objectives
- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment
Responsibilities
- Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into pragmatic and effective technical solutions
- Contribute to hiring the engineering team for the product you are responsible for
- Work with the different stakeholders to establish a culture of technical excellence and be responsible for the success and personal growth of your team
- Oversee engineering teams and their projects. Ensure they can deliver their best work by spotting and alleviating blockers and coaching teammates
- Build robust and scalable software in Node.js
- Help improve existing code quality through introducing quality assurance and performing code reviews
Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience with digital products or in a similar product role at a FinTech company, digital bank, or Payment provider is a nice to have
Benefits
- Attractive salary
- A stake in the company
- Subsidized public transit pass
- Lasting impact on our company's culture
- Renowned investors to build something great
- Extremely steep learning curve with own responsibility and intensive guidance
- Make a real impact on the world by helping us bring affordable financial and on-demand services to millions of Africans
