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About The Role

• We are looking for a full time Lead Full-Stack Engineer to head up one of our cross-functional software development teams, which builds the software that powers and improves our competitive advantage. In addition to being technically excellent and an individual contributor, a Team Lead is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of their project (looking across all disciplines and technology stacks) and for ensuring that their team is following agreed norms and processes.
• This person should be familiar with design and implementation issues specific to a data driven, highly scalable environments and be able to handle such issues with flexibility and ingenuity. The ideal candidate will have a strong customer focus, a proven track record of delivering high-quality products in a continuous delivery environment, and an appreciation for clean and simple code.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and support new products and features, including overseeing the technical design and architecture of projects
• Grow and lead an software development team of 5-7 engineers
• Collaborate with project sponsors and product designers to elaborate requirements and facilitate trade-offs that maximise value
• Analyse and improve the overall software architecture, with a focus on maintainability and scalability
• Mentor and develop members of the team, from daily interactions to broader professional development goals

What You Should Have

• A BA/BS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 7+ years of enterprise software development experience
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Comfort recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for highly-available, scalable, and reliable implementations; but also the experience to take on technical debt where appropriate
• Enterprise-level experience with continuous delivery practises and tools
• Advocacy of test-driven development (TDD) and/or behaviour driven development (BDD)
• Experience with pair-programming and other XP practises a plus
• Expertise in several of the following areas (and interested in learning about the rest):
  • Web services and API design, especially in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem
  • Android applications, especially “offline-first”
  • JavaScript Web Applications, especially Progressive Web Applications
  • Data engineering - data pipelines that cleanse, classify, and aggregate data sets
  • Highly scalable architectures (e.g. CQRS, Event Sourcing, queues, circuit breakers, etc.)
  • Monitoring in all its forms - error monitoring, synthetic monitoring, performance monitoring, user monitoring, etc.
  • Security and identity management - OAuth, penetration testing, software supply chain
  • Cloud and Hybrid deployment models
  • Databases and ORMs - esp. MS SQL Server/T-SQL (and EF, Dapper, etc.); but also other forms of persistence
• Experience in a lean delivery environment and understand not only the mechanics, but also the underlying motivations
• NewGlobe uses primarily .NET (server-side), Vue.JS (web apps) and Kotlin (Android native), so experience in these toolchains is preferable; however, NewGlobe also values developers with diverse experience, so serious exposure to other languages and ecosystems (e.g. NodeJS, Ruby, functional languages, NoSQL DBs) is a bonus
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
• Interest in open source projects – familiarity with OSS projects is a plus; contributions to open source projects is a big plus

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About The Role

• We are an international, distributed and passionate team, all working together to help children in underserved communities gain access to quality education.
• Our digital portfolio is a set of software solutions that enable governments and communities to shape and re-shape educational systems in an evidence driven manner.
• Reporting to the Director of Product Management and closely collaborating with our Engineering, BI, Analytics and Design teams. In this role you will be responsible for shaping and building our portfolio of data products to help transform education systems worldwide.
• The Product Manager will lead the development and lifecycle of our new data products, from concept to launch. This role involves strategic planning, market research, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure our product portfolio meet customer needs and business goals
• This role will be part of the Product Management team and our Technology group in Lagos, Nigeria.
• If you are a passionate, mission driven professional that wants to make a tangible, positive impact on the world through your work and help us shape our growing team in Lagos we want to hear from you!

What we offer:

• Being part of a global, mission driven company
• Great level of autonomy in shaping your role
• Being an early joiner and helping us shape our growing team in Lagos

What You Will Do

• Drive definition of the data products, coordinate the strategy, roadmap including decisions on what to build, buy, or use from open-source.
• Lead the product development lifecycle, encompassing ideation, defining requirements, quality assurance.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, data science, and internal stakeholders to deliver successful and user centered data products
• Lead the planning, management, and prioritization of the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall company strategy and stakeholder interests.
• Lead on setting up product success metrics, monitor product performance, define improvements.
• Coordinate roll-out plans and ensure alignment with stakeholders across different locations to define best go-to-market strategy.
• Define and set up testing and experiments to drive product improvements and iterations.

Skills:

• 5+ years experience working in product management, data analytics or engineering
• Proven track record of managing (at least one) product throughout whole product lifecycle
• Experience working with data science and BI teams
• Comfortable presenting to senior leadership
• Strong problem solving skills and willingness to roll up one’s sleeves
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional, desirable skills:

• Experience working with data products
• Experience within EMIS ecosystem