Software Engineering Manager at Shutterscore

Department: Products and Engineering

Job Description

• The Software Engineering Manager will help cultivate an environment where people can do their best work through technical expertise, strategic thinking, coaching, and career advocacy.
• You should have a passion for career development and have a strong track record of attracting, hiring, and developing top-tier engineering talent.
• You exhibit servant leadership and empathy-driven management while building an innovative and cohesive team culture.
• You will own the delivery and quality of your team’s commitments collaborating across the organization to ensure appropriate prioritization.

Responsibilities

• Drives the technical vision and evolution of the applications owned by the team.
• Builds a collaborative team culture and facilitates creativity and team cohesion while championing the team’s work across the organization.
• Refines engineering practices and enacts positive change within the team.
• Leads and grows a diverse & prolific software development team through a combination of training, career development, recruiting, and process improvement.
• Participates in Agile methodology and Scrum processes such as Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Daily Standups, and Retrospectives with the team.
• Leads architectural and design discussions to help the team build highly scalable and available applications.
• Works with Product Managers, Product Designers, QA, and other multi-functional teams to drive the vision, prioritize work, and set the roadmap for the team.

Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:

• B.Sc Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of concepts that relate to web application performance, scalability, security, and observability

Requirements:

• 5+ years of technical experience, including 2+ years in an engineering leadership role.
• Understanding of NestJS and React, Dev Ops and PHP
• Experience shipping and maintaining production web applications at scale.
• Strong partner and communicator with the ability to articulate the team vision and technical concepts to multi-functional partners.
• Ability to write documentation and communicate technical topics with clarity across multiple teams, disciplines, and stakeholders.
• Ability to make decisions in ambiguous, high-pressure situations and a fast-paced environment with constantly evolving business needs.
• Self-learner who has the ability to identify root causes and drive solutions to highly complex problems.
• Exhibits ability to motivate others, driving influence and high output from the team.
• Has experience managing engineers and is passionate about coaching, mentoring, and growing the careers of the team.
• Experience prioritizing, compromising, and managing simultaneous requests and workstreams across multiple domains.

Salary
NGN500,000 - NGN700,000 / Month.