Engineering Manager Job at Duplo

Duplo is a Lagos-based fintech startup that enables businesses in Africa to digitize their receivables and payables, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and generate more revenue from their business customers. We want to make B2B payments as simple as P2P payment apps. Most business payments in Africa are made offline….yikes. We are on a mission to transform this. We are backed by top investors including Tribe Capital, Commerce Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Basecamp Fund, Soma Capital, YCombintaor, Oui Capital, and others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Engineering Manager

Job Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Technology

Responsibilities

• Lead various projects across several teams to help create processes and execute strategies to ensure projects are developed in a timely manner.
• Plan and lead the development of new products and features.
• Assist in the collection and documentation of user’s requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
• Prepare reports, manuals and other documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of Duplo’s systems.
• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• Package and support deployment of releases.
• Be responsible for all aspects of product development, from ideation through architecture to implementation, testing and continuous deployment.
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain Duplo’s systems.
• Oversee the infrastructure and all existing and new pipelines (CI/CD and Data)
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on-time and on-budget.

Technical & Professional Requirements

• 6+ years of exceptional management experience: individuals, teams, and project management.
• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• 5+ years of payment experience is a requirement.
• Experience with JavascriptTypescript, Node.js, RESTGraphQL.
• Deep understanding of scalable architecture and distributed systems using microservices queues serverless
• Experience working on AWS cloud environments. ServerlessKubernetes DockerECS.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases.
• Experience working in CI/CD workflows, Agile methodologies.
• An execution mindset, good analytic skills and a teamplayer.