Engineering Manager (Backend)

Responsibilities:

• Lead one or more technical projects with moderate to high complexity.
• Lead a team of developers and testers to execute the project(s) from inception to production.
• Collaborate with multiple internal Agile teams to execute the projects successfully.
• Adept in one or more coding languages (Java/Python or PHP) and open-source frameworks.
• Ability to create distributed systems using microservices and event-driven architecture.
• Ability to create solutions with high availability, resilience and scalability.
• Coach, mentor, and lead the developer.

Requirements:

• We need you to have a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• 5 years of experience in software engineering.
• Adept in one or more coding languages (Java/Python or PHP) and open-source frameworks.
• Experience building streaming data applications (Spark Streaming, Kafka, Kinesis, etc. )
• Experience using CICD practices.
• At least 2 years of people management experience.
• Ability to lead and manage teams up to size 8
• At least 1 year of experience with AWS.
• Ability to build Cloud Native applications.
• Understanding of AWS services (Rt53 Compute, S3 Lambda, Database).
• Understanding of Dockerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Participate in interviews and contribute to hiring.
• Ability to attract and retain top talent.
• At least 2 years of experience using agile methodology practices.
• Expert in Agile and can run the Agile ceremonies for the Team.
• Ability to utilise the capacity of the team using proper capacity planning.
• Able to remove team impediments.