Backend Engineer Manager at Reliance HMO

Reliance HMO - We are a health insurance company that acts like a technology company. We’re using software, data science and telemedicine to make health insurance more affordable, easier to access and more of a delightful experience.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Backend Engineer Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Specialization:  Software / Web Development

Job Description

• Integrate user-facing elements developed by front-end engineers with server-side logic.
• Test and continuously integrate newly developed codes with the existing codebase.
• Package products for deployment and automate their deployment.
• Automate IT operations to improve the reliability of high-scale systems.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers to ensure that the designed solutions respond to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Analyse current codes and industry developments to formulate more efficient processes.
• Monitor errors and bugs on the system.
• Collaborate closely with infra teams to develop related products.
• Understand the needs of your customers and be able to effectively design systems to meet these needs.
• Have a good understanding of business products and services, and be able to advise others about them.
• Execute detailed creation of products through a combination of coding, verification, and debugging.
• Ensure products are compatible with multiple browsers and multiple devices.
• Carry out occasional maintenance on products to fix software bugs, change features, or completely upgrade the system.
• Evaluate new methodologies and technologies aimed at improving the quality, reliability, and performance of product development systems and processes
• Mentor and develop a team of engineers, supporting them and enabling their career growth.
• Recruit and scale your team of driven engineers who have high expectations around craft, ownership, and impact.
• Liaise with inter-divisional teams as appropriate.
• Continuously challenge yourself and your team, to allow for constant improvements
• Work alongside other engineer managers and set the direction for your team, the engineering department, and the company as a whole.
• Build a thoughtful, long-term technical strategy that anticipates future needs.
• Define strategies to allow consistent development of solutions that reflect the ideas provided by the Product Team.

Ideal Profile

• Minimum of 6 years engineering experience
• Proficiency in PHP-Laravel
• Proficiency in Microservices patterns & Architecture, Java Springboot, AWS
• Experience planning, executing and delivering projects with multiple engineers in an agile environment.
• Experience in working in Agile Scrum Methodology
• 2 years of people management experience would be good, but if you have spent 2 years thinking about people management, then we would like to speak to you too.
• A love of people management, great products, and product design.
• Willingness to code when required.

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online