Engineering Manager

Summary

Join NALA, a company building payments for the Next Billion, and be part of a team revolutionizing financial empowerment on a global scale. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting and developing a cross-functional squad of engineers, collaborating with Product Managers, and contributing to the development of new revenue lines. You will work closely with engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach, manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team, and help individuals reach their professional goals through coaching and mentoring. You will also be responsible for building a high-performing engineering team, managing performance, providing feedback, and hiring new engineers. This role involves a mix of direct line management, building engineering culture and processes, managing work with other Engineering Managers and Product, and hands-on system design and coding.

Requirements

• Have 8+ years of Engineering experience with at least 2 years experience managing high-performing engineers
• Empathetic leadership style and care deeply about helping others achieve their goals
• Have hands-on experience with Go
• 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
• Passionate about our product and the mission that we are on
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers to architect and develop the 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 the way for career progression
• Develop a high-performing engineering team by managing performance and providing constructive feedback regularly to the 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

• 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays : Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
• 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
• 35 Days Off including your local bank holidays : Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
• 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)
• Learning Budget : Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development