Job Description Samples for FullStack Engineering Roles

Finding the right full-stack engineer can be a daunting task for hiring managers, particularly if they are not familiar with the technicalities of the job. One of the most critical aspects of hiring a full-stack engineer is to clearly define the job description and the skills required to excel in the role. A well-written job description can help attract the right candidates and ensure that the hiring process is efficient and successful. In this blog post, we will explore some job description samples for full-stack engineering roles, including the necessary skills and qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations.

Sample 1: FullStack Engineer

About the Job

This is an exciting opportunity to join their engineering team as a FullStack Engineer, where you will build elegant and world-class software across their full suite of products. You will also have the opportunity to challenge yourself and learn new skills by working alongside other smart and passionate creatives to develop cutting-edge solutions for some of their unreleased products.

**You must be based in these countries; Morocco, Pakistan, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, or Africa. The time zone difference is an important factor for this position**

What do you need to be considered successful?

The FullStack Engineer role and responsibilities will include but might not be limited to the following:

• Implementation of new functionality and support of existing code

• Write clean, well-tested, and refactored code

• Research and evaluate technical options to implement business requirements

• Design and implement challenging functionalities

Nice To Have

• Previous work experience in a product company

• Understanding of the Fintech domain

• Experience working remotely in distributed and multi-national teams

• Experience working with microservice architecture

• Experience with the AWS platform

• Experience with Payments and Integrations

• How important are you to the bottom line?

As the Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment. You will have the unique responsibility of effectively creating website foundations using back-end applications and database structures.

The biggest problem-solving duties on the Job

Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition, and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• 4+ years of experience developing withTypeScript,Node.js

• Knowledge of Node.js and Nest.js framework

• Knowledge of TypeScript and JavaScript

• Understanding of OOP, SOLID, and design patterns

• Experience with MySQL and NoSQL databases

• Knowledge of Git

• Practical experience in developing and consuming REST APIs

• At least a basic understanding of security principles

• Knowledge of CI/CD processes

• Excellent communication skills

• Advanced spoken and written English skills

• Ability to work inGMT+0 – GMT+4 time zones

What do you stand to gain?

• The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary.

• Competitive Salary.

• A nearly unlimited room for career growth with support along the way.

• **You must be based in these countries; Morocco, Pakistan, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, or Africa. The timezone difference is an important factor for this position**

 

Sample 2

About the Role

As a Full Stack Engineer, you will be responsible for the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment. You will have the unique responsibility of effectively creating website foundations using back-end applications and database structures. Your day-to-day is constantly changing. That’s because full-stack developers are essentially a jack of all trades, as you will consistently jump between front-end and back-end coding.

What should you be able to do?

As a Full Stack Engineer, you need to stay up to date with development tools and industry trends. You will overlap between functions and as such you should be ready to learn and have a get-things-done attitude. You will be responsible for the following:

• Design client-side and server-side architecture

• Write effective APIs

• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

• Have an updated knowledge of developments in web applications and programming languages

• Ensure the entire stack is designed and built for speed and scalability

• Design and implementation of the overall web architecture

Requirements

• Proven experience as a full-stack developer

• Understanding of the fundamentals of JavaScript and TypeScript.

• Real-world experience with Frameworks and Run-time experience environments (Angular/Vue/REACT/NodeJS)

• Excellent understanding of basic UI/UX principles

• Experience with Atlassian tools, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket

• Strong skills in debugging and troubleshooting applications to facilitate fixes and improvements

• Version / Source Control: Git

• Ability to learn new coding languages and technologies

Sample 3: Engineering Lead

Edukoya is Building Africa’s largest learning platform that offers personalized solutions to the educational needs of the continent regardless of Age and status. With their robust AI operating system, they are looking to bridge the gap and disparities in education and use technology to have a significant impact on educational equity. They are using data-driven AI technology to reach the next generation of students in Africa, helping learners reach their goals in the most efficient way.

About The Role

They are looking to hire a business-focused, entrepreneurial Engineering Lead to join Edukoya. In addition to shaping Edukoya’s technology vision, this engineering lead will be the bridge between business & technology.

What do you need to be considered successful?

To be successful as a technical lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Enhancing the technology strategy based on the overall business strategy

• Leading multiple projects end-to-end and collaborating across functions.

• Driving planning, estimation, and execution.

• Managing stakeholder expectations and offering scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain solutions.

• Consistent delivery of complex and well-backed products on time.

• Delivering well-thought technical/design decisions.

• Demonstrating effective communication with the project team, management, and internal/external clients as necessary.

• Surfacing both technical and non-technical challenges and helping resolve them.

• Driving the team to solve engineering challenges.

• Crafting & executing a well-designed solution architecture

• Product management & implementing the product roadmap

• Willing to diving deep into software development – strong back & front-end proficiency, as more coding might be required mainly at the beginning

• Setting up & managing the technology infrastructure & DevOps

• Building, managing, mentoring & leading a high-performance tech team

• Developing standards & procedures to ensure quality practices across the platform & for incoming teams.

• Conducting code reviews & ensure quality code output.

• Building quality assurance & managing feedback loops.

• Willing to collaborate with various internal & external stakeholders such as our strategic product partnerships and investors.

• Representing the business at various touch points.

How Important are you to the Bottom Line?

As their first lead Engineer, you will play a key role in setting the direction of technology & product strategy in order to accomplish Edukoya’s short, medium & long-term goals. You will take a leading role in scaling the platform, hiring the engineering team, technical architecture & technical development.

Biggest problem-solving duties on the job

You will have to bring your leadership mettle and inspire engineers across different teams to consistently deliver excellent work that aligns with business and user needs. You will have the exciting opportunity of making strategic decisions that affect the growth of the product and development team in the long and short terms.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• At least 7 years of experience working with well-engineered software products with modern technologies.

• Thorough domain expertise in various technologies.

• Ability to adapt to changes quickly.

• Understanding of overall business fundamentals.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering well-engineered products with modern technologies for a variety of different problem domains.

• Experience building scalable B2C-based products across any of the top cloud platforms e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.

• Good working knowledge of API design (e.g., REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL).

• Strong experience in Reactive Programming, Asynchronous Programming, and Unit Testing.

• Understanding microservices architecture design paradigm.

• Knowledge & proficiency in the following development languages: NodeJS and Java (for building Android Native apps).

• Knowledge of a range of current cross-platform product development frameworks, such as React JS, and React Native.

• Ability to create & implement a data strategy to enable analytics that enhance the business’s objectives.

• Knowledge of project management methodologies & strong time management

• Strong understanding of integration & service orchestration strategies.

• Experience working in an agile environment & is able to constantly test, learn & iterate based on user feedback & prioritize features.

• Strong communication skills – you’ll be sharing the results of analyses & discussing technical problems with the team.

• Managing costs & budgets across the technology value streams.

Non-Negotiables

• Leadership skills, management skills & a great team player

• Relentlessly resourceful & creative problem solving

• High-risk tolerance & boundless ambition

• A collaborative approach & willingness to be wrong

• Self-driven

• Brilliant at bringing together people across functions, countries & cultures

• Passionate about users’ needs

• Industry-agnostic

• Driven by consistent iteration.

What Do you stand to Gain?

• Opportunity to partner with the business founder & influence strategy as a technical leader of the business.

• Potential to participate in Edukoya’s employee share option program (ESOP).

• An exciting start-up environment where you can practice & harness your creativity & innovation.

• Opportunity to be part of a founding team of a high-potential start-up with global ambition.

 

Sample 4

About The Role

They are looking to hire a business-focused, entrepreneurial Engineering Lead that will lead all aspects of the technology teams and work across multiple teams

(business, data, product, etc.) to ensure appropriate planning, estimation, budgeting, development, and deployment of new features and enhancements of current products.

What do you need to be considered successful?

To be successful as a technical lead, you should always be expanding your industry knowledge and be able to quickly identify problems. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Work directly with members of the senior leadership team, including the CEO

• Plan & manage the tech strategy and roadmaps

• Manage all technology projects, including scoping, estimating, prioritizing, and resource planning

• Develop a deep understanding of business and technology objectives and adequately allocate and manage resources

• Manage hiring and related issues for the technology team, including recruiting, onboarding, and training team members

• Identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make necessary decisions to solve customer challenges

• Develop & track meaningful metrics and reports, measuring progress on project execution, to be shared with the senior leadership team and external shareholders

How Important are you to the Bottom Line?

As their lead Engineer, you will play a key role in setting the direction of technology & product strategy in order to accomplish their short, medium & long-term goals. You will take a leading role in scaling the platform, hiring the engineering team, technical architecture & technical development.

Biggest problem-solving duties on the job

You will have to bring your leadership mettle and inspire engineers across different teams to consistently deliver excellent work that aligns with business and user needs. You will have the exciting opportunity of making strategic decisions that affect the growth of the product and development team in the long and short terms.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• Experience building and operating hardware, software (web & mobile), and cloud solutions

• Experience in full-stack development (Java, Kotlin, Python, React)

• Strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions, including software design and development, database architectures, IP networking, security, and performance tuning

• Experience with deploying and managing public and/or private clouds using AWS

• Familiarity with scaling integrated solutions, deploying APIs and micro-services to enable growth

• Experience working with and leading distributed teams

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and proven ability to motivate teams

• Superior project management skills

• Ability to maintain a keen attention to detail, multitask and work well under pressure

• The natural tendency to be curious, positive, and creative

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fieldsAt least 7 years of experience working with well-engineered software products with modern technologies.

Sample 5

Our partner – ARK is disrupting the Storage and Warehouse industry for SMEs in Nigeria. ARK’s mission is to liberalize SME access to integrated professional inventory storage facilities and inventory management technology.

About the role

They are looking for an Engineering Lead who is an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and experienced individual who can lead by example and drive results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. Are you ready to take on a leadership role, building high-impact products? Do you enjoy experimenting while ensuring the on-time execution of the product roadmap? If so, you might be exactly who they are looking for!

What do you need to be considered successful?

To be successful in this role, you should be a strong technologist and manager ready to take the next step in his or her career. Someone who has managed a small team but is interested in expanding their leadership role. You will be responsible for the following:

• Own all aspects of the technology strategy, roadmap, and team, including scoping, estimating, prioritizing, and resource planning

• Contribute to the growth phase of Ark by working across the senior leadership team to drive the successful delivery of tech initiatives

• Develop a deep understanding of business and technology objectives and adequately allocate and manage resources

• Identify new opportunities, drive clarity, create focus, and make necessary decisions to solve customer challenges

• Future-proof the technology infrastructure by enhancing our current systems or designing, building, and implementing new and innovative architecture to support explosive growth.

• Serve as technical advisor for CEO and rest of the management team.

How Important are you to the bottom line?

You will help with managing the technical aspects of their organization to ensure that they align with the company’s growth targets. You will be working with a team of engineers and designers to build highly impactful products.

You will be a great fit if:

You are willing to become more involved in decisions that are strategic to the company. You demonstrate a structured approach to work, a strong level of self-management, and consistent professional maturity. You can exercise good judgment in a variety of situations, with strong written and verbal communication, organizational skills, and the ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• Proficient in Javascript/Typescript framework

• Experience leading a team of Engineers

• Excellent written and oral communication skills and proven ability to motivate teams

• Superior project management skills

• A natural tendency to be curious, positive, and creative

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related fields

Person Specification

• A flexible mindset

• An understanding of commercialization and general business

• Willing to be hands-on as you lead

What do you stand to gain?

• Competitive Remuneration

• Work with a brilliant and diverse team

Sample 6

Our client is a Fintech-enabled on-demand beauty services app that enables customers to discover, book, and pay for beauty services across Africa- like hairstylists, makeup artists, and tailors. In addition to a consumer marketplace. Ginger’s all-in-one business management software enables salons and beauty professionals to better run their businesses and operate efficiently at scale.

About the role

They are looking to hire an Engineering Lead (A Founding Engineer) to champion their switch from no code to a series of codes. They are looking for an individual who is creative, resourceful, analytical, and result driven. As the engineering lead at Ginger you will be in charge of everything engineering: designing and leading engineering projects.

You should be someone with the potential to grow into the role of a CTO.

What do you need to be considered successful?

To be successful in this role, you should be confident in managing teams, have experience building scalable and resilient cloud-based applications, and have a strong passion for growing and leading a highly effective engineering organization. You will be responsible for the following:

• SAAS/ Marketplace/ Fintech Background

• Cloud-based application design experience

• Deep understanding of application design throughout the chosen tech stack

• Ensure monitoring, reliability, and performance of our products and systems and lead improvements

• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment

• Hire engineers and coordinate their development

• Oversee development teams and their projects

• Create interesting technical challenges for the team that deliver value for the business

• Create and drive technology roadmap for our product, prioritizing enhancements and new features aligned with company goals

• Create an environment where innovative technologies experiment

• Design strategies for future development projects based on the company’s overall objectives and resources

• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines

How Important are you to the bottom line?

You will help with managing the technical aspects of their organization to ensure that they align with the company’s growth targets. You will be working with a team to build highly impactful products.

You will be a great fit if:

You are willing to work within a fast-paced and results-driven startup and want to drive digital transformation by building and scaling products that make an impact. You demonstrate a structured approach to work, a strong level of self-management, and consistent professional maturity.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• Have a BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science, or a relevant field

• Proficiency in Javascript/Typescript or Python for backend

• Experience with AWS or Azure

• Proficiency in React/React Native for front- end

• Significant experience as a Senior Engineer in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department

• Extensive experience in managing software development teams

• General knowledge within the Fintech, SaaS, and Startup ecosystem.

If we are not being greedy, we’d love you to also have;

• Leadership abilities with a strategic and creative mind

• Strong analytical background and a data-driven approach to problem-solving

• Organizational skills and excellent project management skills that reflect an ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail.

• Excellent writing, organizational, and interpersonal skills, including clear and effective written and verbal communication skills

• Great people skills and the ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external partners

• A forward thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions

What do you stand to gain

• Competitive salary + Equity option

• Work with a brilliant and diverse team

Work Model – Onsite initially and hybrid afterward

 

Sample 7: Engineering Manager

Think of a seamless way to manage every aspect of your business as an entrepreneur and You get Prospa. Prospa is bridging the gap between underserved microbusinesses and access to banking services. They’ve been tagged a Neobank for small businesses and have built an ecosystem that supports business owners beyond banking, their platform also has inventory management, employee and vendor management, an e-commerce store, and payroll features.

About The Role

Prospa is looking to hire a talented Engineering Manager to join our team. As a technical expert, you’ll not only provide technical oversight and leadership to major projects but also act as a functional manager.

What do you need to do to be considered successful?

Your role will include optimizing and reviewing the performance of teams, with an aim to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader. You will have close involvement with our hiring process in a bid to effectively scale their engineering teams. You will also:

• Inspire, lead, shape, and grow a software engineering team.

• Manage and drive procurement for third-party products that your team depends on.

• Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own and partner teams.

• Prioritize and optimize for the highest speed in execution.

• Take calculated risks, collaborate with different stakeholders, and clearly communicate short and long-term consequences.

• Continuously develop relationships with product, engineering, and key stakeholders across teams and domains.

• Influence and drive software design and architecture.

How Important are you to the bottom line?

You will own the product and solution architecture with a key focus on quality control and code optimization. You will champion and influence best practices, and help ensure these are followed across the company.

The biggest problem-solving duties on the Job

You will have to bring your leadership mettle and inspire engineers across different teams to consistently deliver excellent work that aligns with business and user needs. You will have the exciting opportunity of making strategic decisions that affect the growth of the product and development team in the long and short terms.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• Bachelor’s Degree (or above) in Computer Science/Maths/Physics/similar.

• Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organization.

• Strong software architecture skills

• Strong coding ability with core skills in Python, Javascript, or Java/Scala.

• Experience building and scaling high-achieving engineering teams

• Big picture thinking – correctly diagnosing problems and building innovative solutions

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner closely with Product Owners and Business Heads.

What Do you stand to Gain?

• Competitive Salary.

• Medical cover.

• Wellness perks.

• Paid time off (leave days).

• Work tools.

Sample 8

Cassbana is a technology solution that builds financial identities for underserved communities in Egypt through micro-lending and building a behavior-based scoring system. Making them the future data-driven financial advisory collective.

They help millions of people to elevate their standards of living and foster economic growth in developing nations by providing accessible financial instruments.

Through their vast networks, they creatively collect data that helps them create a financial identity for the underserved and unbanked.

About the role

Cassbana is looking to hire an Engineering Manager to lead its development process and drive its tech strategy and architecture. You will get hands-on and produce excellent code. You will coordinate multiple teams to ensure Cassbana meets user expectations.

You should be passionate and ready to dedicate your time to solving complex problems in the financial world. Their team consists of world-class engineers with many years of experience who spend their life solving the most complex problems around the world. They are keen to welcome you on board, learn from you and share the best from our experience.

If you are excited to help millions of people to elevate their standards of living and foster the economic growth of developing nations by providing accessible financial instruments, they’d like to meet you! Your impact will be felt!

What do you need to be considered successful?

As an Engineering Manager, you will be a part of a value-stream aligned group developing a Financial System responsible for managing Cassbana’s internal ledger and also be responsible for the following:

• Solving the interesting and complex financial problems

• Leading the team of software engineers

• Drive technical projects and provide leadership in an ever-changing environment

• Grow and mentor your team

• Own delivery, processes, and practices

• Write high-quality, performant, and reliable code.

• Design and build highly scalable and robust systems.

How Important are you to the bottom line?

Establish, communicate, and implement the strategic direction of Cassbana’s engineering and develop policies and initiatives to ensure effective and consistent operations. You will also work closely with Product and the larger management team

Biggest problem-solving duties on the job

You will have to bring your leadership mettle and inspire engineers across different teams to consistently deliver excellent work that aligns with business and user needs. You will have the exciting opportunity of making strategic decisions that affect the growth of the product and development team in the long and short terms.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• 3+ years of professional experience in Engineering management, ability to work with cross-functional teams including mobile, backend, and WebFrontend.

• Experience with Computer Science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high-quality solutions against aggressive roadmaps.

• Experience building high-load, scalable and robust systems.

• Ability to go above your functional responsibilities and help to solve problems across departments and business verticals.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or another related technical field.

• Experience in rapid prototyping and other fast iteration methods for product development.

• Experience in building complex Engineering solutions.

• Knowledge of professional Engineering management practices & processes including Project Management, Leadership, Coaching, System Design, and Architecture.

• Strong focus on delivering results, ability to think out of the box and beyond your area of responsibility.

• Understanding of Cloud Native environment, its details, and ability to work in that

What do you stand to gain?

• Competitive Remuneration

• Work with a brilliant multinational team.

• Work on exciting projects that provides financial access to Africans

 

Sample 9

Oval represents a new paradigm for emerging market fintech, bridging them to the world of decentralized finance. Oval provides investors and institutions in these markets access to safe and secures high-interest savings rates powered by USD-denominated stablecoins. Oval’s easy-to-integrate APIs enable Fintechs to provide their users with DeFi yields while abstracting away operational complexities.

About the Role

They are looking to hire a bold, curious Engineering Manager with high standards to contribute to, architect, and help manage Oval’s software development. You will be responsible for ensuring consistent, high-quality codebases, technical specifications, deployment scripts, API product creation, and more.

What do you need to be considered successful?

• Participate in technical specification design, technical roadmap, and implementation of Oval’s technology.

• Understand the existing technical stacks in each region, and develop an architecture for API solutions that are pluggable into local payment rails.

• Work with auditors to ensure the quality and safety of the platforms to ensure the safety of deposited funds.

• Help shape the direction of systems design by defining high-level architecture, principles, and standards within DeFi.

• Design processes for managing the security of the core infrastructure layers and related applications.

• Perform and assist engineers through code reviews, acceptance testing, bug fixing, and general support.

Roadmap

The roadmap in the immediate future includes launching our “Treasury Yield” product for investors & family offices and “API” product for FinTechs. We have a few more DeFi projects in the ideation/r&d phase as well to be worked on into 2022.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• Previous experience as a technical lead.

• High interest in DeFi, blockchain, open finance, and financial inclusion.

• Experience working in fintech involved in payments, digital wallets, lending, investments, cryptocurrencies, and/or foreign money transfers across Africa and/or the Indian Subcontinent.

• Know when to create abstractions vs. one-off methods

• A desire to keep up with emerging trends in the blockchain technology space

• Comfortable bridging the strategic objectives of the organization with internal engineering practices

• Native-level fluency in English (spoken and written)

Nice to Haves

• Experience developing APIs, SDKs, and developer tools at a fintech, infrastructure, or mobile payments firm. 

• An awareness of different stablecoins, products, and services in the DeFi space and applicable lending and borrowing protocols.

• Degree in math or computer sciences

• Languages + Frameworks: Typescript/javascript, Solidity, React, NodeJs, ExpressJs, MongoDB, Rust, Python

What do you stand to gain?

• The exciting opportunity to be part of building something extraordinary.

• Competitive Salary.

• A nearly unlimited room for career growth with support along the way.

Sample 10

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in San Francisco, Lagos, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Tanzania, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. They believe that everyone everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. 

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the founder and former CEO of Kiva.org. The company presents a rich opportunity for its team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. Most recently, Branch announced its Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms.

They value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive. 

About the role

They are looking to hire an Engineering Manager who will lead a small group of engineers that are working on both their core platform and technology as well as new Africa-focused product initiatives. You will contribute to growing the team, fostering a strong engineering culture, and jointly with others driving the product & technical vision for Branch. 

As an engineering team, they value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making: They believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and they are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges they face. 

What do you need to be considered successful?

As a company, they are passionate about their customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. You will be responsible for the following:

• You will help build a culture of collaboration that embodies our values and helps us achieve our goals as a distributed team.

• Work with other stakeholders to recruit, grow, and empower a team of driven engineers who have high expectations around ownership, impact, and technical excellence

• Collaborating with your team, you will craft a thoughtful, long-term technical strategy that anticipates future needs while being pragmatic about what’s needed today.

• You will be a hands-on technical contributor and mentor for your team, one who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do actual technical work when appropriate.

• You will work with other engineering managers and functional leads to set direction and ambitious goals for your team, Engineering, and Branch as a whole.

How Important are you to the bottom line?

As a Lead in their Engineering team, you will help the team achieve its goals through servant-style leadership and removing roadblocks. Similarly, you will help the team achieve the right balance between engineering excellence and shipping and iterating solutions quickly.

Biggest problem-solving duties on the job

Their technology team works closely with all other parts of their business, and you will be working closely with other stakeholders across the globe to help them achieve their goals.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• 2+ years of engineering management experience, preferably in an established technology firm or a product-focused high-growth startup.

• Experience handling performance reviews, and must have handled at least 1 performance review cycle independently.

• Significant experience (4+ years) as a software engineer, ideally across organizations, industries, and technology stacks.

• A record of mentorship and helping others in their career growth.

• Experience and excitement for recruiting, combined with a thoughtful approach to team growth.

What do you stand to gain?

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment

• Competitive salary and equity package

• A collaborative and flat company culture

• Fully paid Premium Plan medical coverage

• Generous vacation policy

• Generous child bonding leave policy

• Pension Benefits and Life Insurance

• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance (when it’s safe to travel!)

• Flexible working hours

• Weekly team meals and social events (virtual for now!)

Sample 11

TeamApt is a financial technology company digitizing Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit, and business management tools they need to succeed.

Engineering at TeamApt is an inspired, customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Our infrastructure runs on some of the cool tools that excite infrastructure engineers – Kubernetes, docker, etc.They also make business decisions based on the large stream of data they receive daily, so they work daily with big data, perform data analytics and build models to make sense of the noise and give our customers the best experience

About The Role

TeamApt is looking to hire a versatile Senior Engineering Manager to join their product teams in scaling their payments product in Africa.

What do you need to do to be considered successful?

To ensure success as an Engineering Manager, you will lead a cross-functional team of developers, QA, and Application Security Engineers that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Translates product requirements into architectural documents and diagrams.

• Providing technical leadership and oversight for the teams while setting a high bar for engineering quality.

• Develop and improve processes and frameworks for product performance.

• Ensures that the architectural direction of an application is in line with the strategic direction of the product.

• Performs code reviews and ensures efficient code engineering

• Ensures applications are implemented using software engineering best practices

• Responsible for the stability and reliability of products under his/her purview

• Creates and enforces processes that improve developer efficiency and productivity

• Participates in the screening of engineers for hire

• Provides mentorship for young engineers.

How Important are you to the bottom line?

As the Engineering Manager, your duties will include supervising junior software developers, analyzing software performance and configuration systems, and managing the deployment and integration of new software. You will also be required to hire new software developers into the engineering team.

The Biggest Problem-solving Duties On the Job

The ideal candidate is one who has a passion for developing highly scalable applications backed by infra-as-code and can lead to easy adoption by the developer teams.

What do you need to have done in your career?

• 7-8+ years of experience as a software engineer with leadership responsibilities and 2+ years as an engineering manager.

• Experience in software development and coding in Java-spring boot programming language.

• Excellent knowledge of software and application design and architecture

• Excellent knowledge of UML and other modeling methods

• Familiarity with HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and UI/UX design

• Understanding of software quality assurance principles

• A technical mindset with great attention to detail

• High-quality organizational and leadership skills

• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities

• Experience with leading and building distributed / remote teams.

• A proven track record of success working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• BSc in Computer Science or related technical field

Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with

• Java (latest versions)

• Spring and Spring Boot

• Docker and Kubernetes

• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic search

• Microservices architecture on AWS

What do you stand to gain?

• Scale with a rapidly growing startup, with tons of opportunity for growth and impact

• Contribute to their mission and work at their dynamic and fast-paced company in Africa

• Work with fantastic teammates and learn a lot from each other

 

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