Head of Engineering (Software) at Gomoney

Location: Marina, Lagos
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Term

About this Role
What will you be doing as the Head of Engineering?

• You will play a key role in establishing a product organization that will build digital banking products to help make banking easy and bring financial literacy to the world.
• You will work with other teams to realize the vision for Gomoney.

How Will You Create Impact?

• You will have a central role in leading technological initiatives for building competitive advantages in products and platforms.
• You'll also play a key role in leading and organizing product sprints and iterating on our product roadmap

Responsibilities
You will be Responsible for:

• Designing and leading all technical aspects of our product and review code written by other members of the team
• Defining and setting a technical vision for development methodologies along with implementing a roadmap to meet the goals of the organization.
• Leading the day to day activities of the engineers, while coaching, mentoring, and developing the engineers to help them deliver to the best of their ability.
• Helping us hire and grow our engineering team: you’ll be a key player in interviews and hiring decisions, and lead onboarding and training for new engineers
• Collaborating closely with various cross-functional teams to prioritize decisions on our product roadmap, understand their needs, offer them solutions and set and manage their expectations
• Setting up best practices for development and championing their adoption

Requirements
This might be for you if you have...

• 8+ years of total engineering experience with deep experience of building engaging consumer products
• Successful track record in a senior leadership position for building, motivating, and leading high performing teams of at least 5 people or more
• A track record of shipping products, getting stuff done and working in high growth product focused organizations
• Exceptional critical and analytical skills with the ability to identify, understand and manage complex problems
• Great experience at building strong, effective relationships with people from different disciplines
• Have a passion in software engineering, application development, systems development, leading and developing teams
• An in depth understanding of systems design, and systems architecture, security framework, data management policies in relation to financial services/banking sector.
• You have good interpersonal and communication skills and are adept at working with multiple stakeholders to drive desired outcomes.