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About the Department

• Andela’s Talent Development department creates the required programs, curriculum, facilitation, and partnerships that ensure our developers meet Andela’s “developer specifications” in a timely, efficient, scalable manner.
• Andela’s curriculum team supports that mission by defining and supporting effective, evidence-based Learning Paths that ensure developers are qualified for Global Technology positions. The curriculum team leverages the expertise of our community and data from our Partner contexts to ensure Andela’s Curriculum prepares developers to thrive on top technology teams.

About the role

• The Director of Curriculum is an engineering and learning leader, responsible for setting the vision, implementing the strategy, and leading the team to deliver high-impact curriculum initiatives.
• They are accountable for the efficacy, usability, engagement, and scalability of the global curriculum for developers of all levels.

Responsibilities
Create a clear, effective, scalable Learner Journey:

• Set curriculum strategy for all phases of Talent Development Pipeline to ensure that the learner journey is streamlined, clear, and covers all the appropriate skills
• Lead team to create a multiple, personalized pathways into and through Andela
• Ensure the provision of well-defined and robustly supported paths to advancement based on the strategy & priorities of each unit
• Ensure full coverage of pathways to technology roles at Andela; prioritize which pathways are of the highest importance
• Liaise closely with Director, Learning Technology to implement curriculum as a “tool” that achieves a desired learner outcome

Incorporation of Market Feedback:

• Manage feedback loop with Revenue, Talent, and Success teams to take in and act on partner feedback
• Use data & expertise to prioritize the creation of learning materials that effectively increase developer performance in the most critical partner contexts
• Collaborate closely with VP, Product, to support the creation of curriculum pathways that enable our developers to meet and exceed our product specifications

Team Management:

• Set and create accountability around the team strategy, roadmap and KPI’s
• Design, hire, and retain a world-class team capable of meeting and exceeding the divisions KPIs and initiatives
• Ensure consistent reporting on core divisional metrics including but not limited to curriculum quality (NPS) and efficacy (developer performance)

Qualifications

• Experienced professional with at least 3-5 years of direct management experience
• At least 5 years in development/ Software engineering / Product Management role
• A background in learning & development in any form (teaching, curriculum development, management, learning operations, etc)
• A doer who is self-motivated and proactive, obsessed with detail and quality, and personally offended by mediocrity.
• An open communicator who takes ownership of deliverables, communicates ideas, and tests their efficacy with an analytical mindset.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% of the time
• Able to thrive on a diverse, globally distributed team

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Locations: Lagos - Nigeria; Nairobi - Kenya; Accra - Ghana; Cairo - Egypt; Kigali - Rwanda and Kampala - Uganda
Job Type: Full-Time

About the Position

• As a Senior Ruby Software Engineer, you will primarily work as a lead engineer for one of Andela’s clients
• Andela Senior Engineers are skilled at writing complex applications, have a deep understanding of application lifecycles, databases and services
• They are passionate about guidance and mentorship to more junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities
The specific responsibilities of the Senior Ruby Software Engineer position include:

• Interfacing with your client to understand their business, goals and visions for products being supported by an Andela Team;
• Performing high quality work that not only meets the need of the client, but surpasses it.

If you are managing a team:

• Ensuring that our engineers are able to understand the business context and value of their tasks, as well as how it impacts users;
• Prioritizing the work that your team is responsible for to ensure that you’re always working on the highest value work that helps your clients meet their objectives;
• Working with our engineers to decompose high level stories into smaller, specific tasks and provide high level design support to help them understand how to solve specific coding challenges;
• Providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure that the work delivered is in accordance with the technical standards of your client;
• Encouraging a collaborative team environment;
• Regularly reporting the status of your team both to your client as well as senior members of Andela’s Partner Experience Department.

Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidate for this role you:

• Are passionate around the technology ecosystem;
• May have a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university;
• Have at least 4 years of experience working in software development;
• Are highly proficient in Ruby;
• Have experience leading technical teams using Agile methodologies;
• Have experience working remotely as an effective member of a team;
• Have a vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written)
• Have strong leadership skills with a desire to mentor other developers;
• Have high cultural intelligence with the ability to relate and work effectively across cultures;
• Be strongly motivated by our social mission of training 100,000 young Africans in the next 10 years.

If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!