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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Engineering Manager – snapd
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
What you’ll do in this role
- You will build and lead a distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- You will demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team’s goals
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- Work from home with global travel twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for company events
Who you are
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
- You are comfortable planning and executing to deliver timely, high quality software
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have experience with embedded software
- You have experience with Golang, C/C++, and Shell
- You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online