Head of Engineering (Remote) at Gomoney

Gomoney is a digital bank dedicated to simplifying banking for everyone and contributing to a future where everyone is in control of their money. With tools to split, schedule, send, receive and track payments, users have the tools for better transaction processes and better understanding of their spending habits.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Engineering

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Term

Job Description

• We’re hiring talented, creative problem-solvers who want to build a career out of making BIG things happen. Join us if you're:
  • Experienced and interested in building engaging products used by tens of thousands of customers and shipping code at a rapid pace.
  • Passionate about providing technical leadership while also taking a hands-on role to shape and design our product offerings.
• We work in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams. We have big dreams. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to build new skills, specialize or move between teams.

About this Role

• What will you be doing as the Head of Engineering?
• You will play a key role in establishing a product organisation that will build digital banking products to help make banking easy and bring financial literacy to the world. You will work with other teams to realise the vision for Gomoney.
• How Will You Create Impact?
• You will have a central role in leading technological initiatives for building competitive advantages in products and platforms. You'll also play a key role in leading and organizing product sprints and iterating on our product roadmap

Your other responsibilities will include:

• Designing and leading all technical aspects of our product and review code written by other members of the team.
• Defining and setting a technical vision for development methodologies along with implementing a roadmap to meet the goals of the organization.
• Leading the day to day activities of the engineers, while coaching, mentoring, and developing the engineers to help them deliver to the best of their ability.
• Helping us hire and grow our engineering team: you’ll be a key player in interviews and hiring decisions, and lead onboarding and training for new engineers.
• Collaborating closely with various cross-functional teams to prioritize decisions on our product roadmap, understand their needs, offer them solutions and set and manage their expectations.
• Setting up best practices for development and championing their adoption.

Job Requirements
This might be for you if you have:

• 8+ years of total engineering experience with deep experience of building engaging consumer products (specifically mobile applications).
• Successful track record in a senior leadership position for building, motivating, and leading high performing teams of at least 5 people or more.
• A track record of shipping products, getting stuff done and working in high growth product focused organizations.
• Exceptional critical and analytical skills with the ability to identify, understand and manage complex problems.
• Great experience at building strong, effective relationships with people from different disciplines.
• Have a passion in software engineering, application development, systems development, leading and developing teams.
• An in depth understanding of systems design, and systems architecture, security framework, data management policies in relation to financial services/banking sector.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.