Engineering Manager/Team Lead

Autochek · Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria · posted today ago

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About this role

The role

We are looking for a talent who is passionate about leading a team towards building great products. As an Engineering Manager you will be responsible for leading, enabling and empowering the team; setting the vision and driving them to success.

The role has 3 components:

Team management
Project management
Software engineering

As a Team Manager, you will:

Manage a group of 5 to 10 software engineers reporting directly to you.
Handle team members’ career (recruitment, onboarding, growth, offboarding)
Define their quarterly objectives and help them reach their targets
Keep team members engaged by providing constructive feedback, growth perspectives and mentoring.

As Project Manager, you will:

Work closely with the Product Manager. To build the product vision and plan the quarterly roadmap you will heavily rely on your technical expertise and the capacity and performance of your team.
Organize the work with your team, making sure that large projects are broken down into deliverables and that requirements, system designs and technical specifications are properly done in order to minimize risk and improve predictability of deliverables.
Be responsible for the performance of your team, ensuring adequate communication within your team and with external parties, focusing the effort of your team toward a common goal and quickly removing impediments in order to achieve agility.
Report project status to stakeholders (Business, Marketing, etc…) on a regular basis

As a Senior Software Engineering, you will:

Design and architect software solutions in collaboration with the Technical Lead
Review pull requests, code, ship, monitor and maintain applications under your responsibility
Constantly improve the software development process to improve quality and agility
Exchange with the other software development teams and the data team

Required skills and experience

You have at least 3 years of experience as Engineering Manager
You have already coached and mentored 4+ people teams including senior software engineers in a product-focused organization
You have a technical background in building user-facing products
You are a seasoned software engineer with experience with architectural patterns and large-scale applications
You have demonstrable experience of project management
You are a strong team player
You act as a problem finder and solver technically and organisationally, helping the team to overcome any issue that prevents your engineers to perform at their best.
A deep sense of ownership with clear, demonstrable experience of proactiveness
Pragmatism and obsession for simplicity, efficiency, and performance.
You are able to operate at a tactical level while understanding the big-picture strategy.