Engineering Manager at Paystack

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack's mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Nigeria

You will be expected to

• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy and own end-to-end complex software solutions in a commercial, mission-critical environment for millions of customers
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring, coaching, and retention strategies in a fast-growing, highly competitive economic environment
• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams.
• Work on cross-team initiatives to improve the applications and system.
• Work in a cross-functional team to design, build and deliver new features for our systems.
• Strive to reduce complexity of the systems.
• Create awareness of engineering efforts and achievements.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to drive success.

Beneficial

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Experience with machine learning and data analytics.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• 8+ years of experience building and working on cutting edge solutions that scale for millions of customers.
• 3+ years of experience building and managing high-performance engineering teams.
• Solid experience with development CI/CD, Automation, Testing and Deploying large systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers
• Solid experience of building systems using a variety of different architectures.
• Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting and security using best practices
• Proven history as an experienced engineer.
• A passion for building products to help African businesses.
• A proactive approach to solve a problem before it has occurred.
• Mentorship - ability to successfully transfer knowledge
• Extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, and best practices.
• Solid experience with build tools.
• Solid experience with source control, like Git.
• Hands-on experience in writing unit, integration and UI tests.
• High analytical thinking to tackle complicated issues.
• High-quality working standards with a clear structured approach.
• Takes full ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes.
• Strives to continuously improve the systems and processes.
• Proven experience of empowering teams with AI-assisted software engineering.

Soft Skills:

• Impeccable problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• High agency and the ability to work independently
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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