Head of Engineering at CredPal

CredPal is a financial technology company that provides credit cards for consumers to meet their immediate financial needs. We are leveraging technology and the retail industry to provide a modern consumer credit solution for Africa and beyond.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Purpose Statement

• We are looking for a Head of Engineering to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of our business. You will communicate with employees, stakeholders and customers to ensure our company’s technologies are used appropriately.
• The selected candidate will be responsible for building and leading a team of engineers for designing, developing, implementing, integrating, testing, qualifying, and maintaining the embedded software on a wide range systems.

Key Deliverables:

• Develop technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage.
• Help departments use technology profitably.
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency.
• Build quality assurance and data protection processes.
• Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance.
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology.
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors.
• Supervising Junior Software Developers, analyzing software performance and configuration .systems, and managing the deployment and integration of new software.
• Develop cutting-edge software solutions to optimize our business operations.
• Managing the installation and configuration of software solutions.
• Resolving software deployment and integration errors, and documenting processes.
• Performing routine maintenance and monitoring performance metrics.
• Write clean and well-tested code, think logically and solve problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or similar.
• Relevant training & certifications.
• 5-8years of experience in a similar role.

Requirements:

• Experience in leading and managing software engineering teams in an agile environment.
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage many simultaneous projects.
• In-depth knowledge of programming languages such as PHP, Python and JavaScript-based framework such as VueJs/ReactJS/Node.js.
• Experience using server-side languages such as Golang, java or Java with a microservice approach.
• Full-stack understanding of web API/database development concepts and patterns.
• Extensive experience in developing, deploying, and integrating software solutions.
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
• Ability and passion to quickly learn and implement new technologies as required.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, problem-solving, detail-focused, motived, good at teamwork

Application Closing Date
10th March, 2021.