Engineering Manager

Summary

Join NALA, a fintech company revolutionizing financial empowerment globally, and become a key contributor to our rapidly expanding engineering team. You will support and develop a cross-functional squad of engineers, collaborating closely with product managers. This role requires significant experience in engineering management and building high-performance products. You'll be responsible for managing daily team activities, coaching engineers, and contributing directly to product development. NALA offers a competitive benefits package including generous paid time off, parental leave, a learning budget, and global workspace access. We are a remote-friendly company with a hybrid option in our London office.

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of Engineering experience with at least 2 years experience managing high-performing engineers
• You have an empathetic leadership style and care deeply about helping others achieve their goals
• You have experience in building complex, scalable, and high-performance products, taking them from idea inception stage through to full development life cycle
• You have experience working asynchronously with global teams using tools like Slack/Teams/Jira as well as other modern communication systems
• Strong time management skills and ability to work on concurrent assignments with different priorities
• Proven results-oriented person with a strong business and technical vision
• You are passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• You are are fluent in written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop best technical design and approach
• Be a key technical contributor to the team by this we mean, please expect to get your hands dirty with coding as you build high quality products for NALA
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Help individuals reach their professional goals through coaching and regular 1:1s and mentor them on right training courses, conferences, and potential stretch projects to pave way for career progression
• Develop a high performing engineering team by managing performance and providing constructive feedback regularly to team
• Build a strong team and provide support in hiring new engineers to the team
• Report status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to management regularly

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience working in Fintech and Payments
• You have experience working in a tech startup
• Experience in infosec
• Experience in creating robust, well-polished and documented server-to-server APIs for customers access (E.g. REST/GraphQL)

Benefits

• 35 Days Off: Enjoy an amazing 35 days of holidays to unwind and explore
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
• Enhanced Parental Leave - We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
• Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide
• Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development
• Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team
• Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times
• Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips
• We offer a hybrid in our London office, Canary Wharf (3 days a week). We also have remote opportunities for those based outside London and abroad