Engineering Manager at Prospa Inc

We are looking for a talented Engineering manager to join our team. As a technical expert, you'll not only provide technical oversight and leadership to major projects, but also act as a functional manager. Owning the product and solution architecture, the role will place a key focus on quality control and code optimisation. You will champion and influence best practices, and help ensure these are followed across the company.

As a functional manager, your role will also include optimising and reviewing the performance of teams, with an aim to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader. To help us scale our engineering teams effectively, you will have close involvement with our hiring process.

What’s you'll do

• Inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering team.
• Manage and drive procurement for third party products that your team depends on.
• Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own and partner teams.
• Prioritise and optimise for highest speed in execution.
• Take calculated risks, collaborate with different stakeholders and clearly communicate short and long term consequences.
• Continuously develop relationships with product, engineering and key stakeholders across teams and domains.
• Influence and drive software design and architecture.

You have

• Bachelors Degree (or above) in Computer Science/Maths/Physics/similar
• Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation
• Strong software architecture skills
• Strong coding ability with core skills in Python, Javascript or Java/Scala.
• Experience building and scaling high achieving engineering teams
• Big picture thinking - correctly diagnosing problems and building innovative solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner closely with Product Owners and Business Heads

Our style and culture

We're looking for a winner who shares our vision. You'll be joining Prospa because you genuinely believe the mission to empower African entrepreneurs is important and exciting.

You demands the best from yourself and make your teammates better. You celebrate success but never settle, you execute at speed while maintaining quality. You are humble and courageous.