Engineering Manager (Technology) at Andela

Locations: (Remote) Lagos, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala

What You'll Do

• Andela’s Technology department is charged with implementing products that will help Andela to scale with consistency and quality, while providing excellent service internally and externally.  We are building a technology-powered marketplace to connect talent with opportunity.
• In this role, you will work as an Engineering Manager within the Technology department leading a full stack team.  You will manage up to 10 engineers providing mentoring and coaching and maintaining innovative processes that monitor the health of the engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage engineers:
  • Manage team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus
  • Mentor and coach the engineers and ensure their success
  • Encourage and promote best engineering practices
  • Encourage a data-driven culture to improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of our products
  • Support engineers in identifying, resolving and escalating issues that impact their work
  • Manage and track engineers on performance and career development
• Provide technical leadership and guidance:
  • Unblock engineers on complex issues via pair programming and design sessions
  • Review architecture and design design approaches for the engineering team
  • Provide scoping and estimation feedback to the business
  • Make technology choices working with the team members
  • Drive issue resolution and ensure production system uptime
• Manage, measure and improve engineering processes:
  • Continuously improves Andelas software development lifecycle processes
  • Improve release planning and sprint execution
  • Drive prioritization and issue resolution approaches
  • Refine onboarding and offboarding processes for engineering team members
• Collaborate with key stakeholders within and across department:
  • Ensure collaboration with Engineer leadership and across Engineering teams
  • Advocate for and ensure prioritization of technical initiatives working with Product Managers.
  • Engage with users and key stakeholders to understand problems and requirements
• Recruit talent:
  • Identify potential candidates that best fit our roles (e.g. team leads, senior engineers)
  • Interview and evaluate prospective talent to ensure fit
  • Facilitate onboarding of new hires
• Support budget alignment and monitoring and adherence of responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Highly-technical software engineer and an effective people manager
• 5-7 years of software development experience
• 3+ years experience managing and growing software engineering teams as a people manager
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A strong desire to mentor developers
• Have the ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
• Have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Have strong leadership skills.
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

What Technologies You’ll Work With
We are building advanced applications using modern tools and technologies. Our primary app is Node-based.  On the backend we have a multi-tier architecture, utilizing PostgreSQL, NestJs, GraphQL, and Typescript. On the frontend we use Angular 10. The platform is deployed to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using a modern CI/CD pipeline (Docker, Kubernetes, CircleCI, CodeClimate).  Our tools and technologies are as follows:

• GraphQL based web services
• NestJS application framework
• Postgres
• Angular 10
• Typescript
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Cloud-based CI/CD tools, CircleCI, CodeClimate.

What You’ll Get

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Great perks and thoughtful approaches to remote work
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better.