Remote Engineering Manager

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