Engineering Lead at Mkobo Microfinance Bank Limited (Mkobobank)

Qualification and Experience

• Ideally University degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject otherwise demonstrable equivalent experience
• Minimum of 6+ years’ software engineering experience ideally across organisations, industries, and technology stacks.
• Minimum of 2+ years hands-on technical team management experience
• Experience building backend RESTful APIs
• Proven ability to drive large scale projects with deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration and leadership
• Experience of managing high-performance team, providing mentorship and helping others to reach their full potential.

Knowledge

• Comfortable with a variety of languages such as Java, Nodejs/Express, Python, React as well as MongoDB, SQL and Postgres databases etc.
• Deep knowledge of the cloud infrastructure (Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean etc.) micro-services and development of APIs
• DevOps experience, architecture, solution design experience
• Demonstrable track record of success in developing and implementing a comprehensive technology strategy that is aligned with and supports the current and future business goals of the company.
• Strong Engineering background with previous hands-on development and deployment of production level code.
• Possess a broad understanding of how software fits into the overall system.
• Well versed in Software Architecture and Design - You should be able to spot flaws in the existing architecture and design. You would help us refactor and re-architecture the code for easier and faster development.
• Experienced with cloud native application, deployment & development
• Continuous deployment & integration

Job Role

• Build and lead a high-caliber team of software engineers to build and maintain our products/solutions
• Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by contributing directly to your team's goals
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Estimate the engineering effort for roadmap goals and internal projects
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Act as backup for project management when required
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, company management, and external stakeholders
• Responsible for directing the Engineering team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications to meet business and performance-related goals.
• Motivate and focus your team to deliver the most important work while keeping them aligned with the overall direction of the company
• Debug production issues across all products and services at multiple levels of the stack and ensure any issues are promptly resolved within agreed SLA’s.
• Ensure that technical decisions support Mkobo’s quality, performance, scalability, reliability, availability, and security goals.
• Working cross functionally to identify system requirements, designing the architecture, and develop components supporting Mkobo’s application features.
• Review/implement software development processes and optimize wherever necessary to enable us to model the best practices for software development and ensure the adoption of these processes by the team