Software Engineering Manager at Bumpa

Commerce is becoming ever more digital, the way we sell, buy and exchange value is changing faster than ever. Buyers want more convenient ways to buy, pay for products/services, and engage businesses while Sellers want more control over how they sell, manage their business, engage their customers and collect customer data. 

Bumpa is redefining commerce in Africa by building the infrastructure that is powering digital commerce on the continent for small business owners (SBOs). 

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our team! As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the design, development and implementation of our engineering strategies and processes. You will also be responsible for the management and development of our engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and nurture a team of engineers by leading, mentoring, and assisting in hiring critical talent

• Provide technical leadership to the development teams by performing design and code reviews.

• Build a culture of engineering excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, documentation, etc.)

• Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.

• Collaborate with other product team members (Product Managers, Architects, Designers, etc.)

• Manage the prioritization and delivery of new products and the maintenance of existing products.

• Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements

• Propose and implement tools, policies, and processes that ensure software engineering best practices.

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

• Test and continuously integrate newly developed codes with the existing codebase.

Technologies we use:

• React Native, React, VueJs, NodeJs, Laravel PHP Framework.

• AWS S3, EC2, RDS, Elastic beanstalk.

• Redis, Elasticsearch, MySql.

• Metrics, monitoring, and alerting with a variety of internal and external tools

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of relevant software engineering experience

• 2 years experience as an engineering manager

• Experience building on monolithic and microservices infrastructure

• Experience with relationship and NoSQL database

• Proven experience in delivering highly scalable and available production systems

• Track record of hiring and managing world-class software engineers

• Prior experience with managing a remote team

• Experience with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles

• Ability to manage multiple competing top priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Willingness to code when required.