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Senior Engineering Manager – Channels (Messaging) at Cellulant Corporation

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Cellulant is a digital payments business. We run an ecosystem of consumers, merchants and banks in which we facilitate payments and build value through the value-added services we layer on top. In building this ecosystem we serve different types of customers with different products, in a range that includes mobile banking products, mobile credit products, USSD, SMS, and digital content. We are currently serving merchants and banks across 10 countries, and a wide set of industries

SUMMARY


We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to join our product teams in scaling our payments products in Africa. As the Engineering Manager, you 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.


The ideal candidate would have solid systems design competencies and experience in building channels(APIs, Messaging, and Chat products preferred).


CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:


The role holder would be required to: 



  • Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.

  • Mentor, manage and grow a team of 10+ engineers working across the stack throughout the software development lifecycle

  • Drive execution of the product roadmap provides leadership in an innovative and fast-paced environment

  • Take responsibility for the overall planning, execution, and success of the roadmap.

  • Establish solid use of agile practices and excellent development processes; champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and processes for regular assessment and improvement

  • Set clear expectations and create a positive work environment based on accountability

  • Work on strategy and help set direction while actively managing day-to-day software development

  • Partner with Product management for prioritising and delivering customer value in a rapidly evolving environment

  • Lead effectively through outcomes rather than tasks


QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:


Must have experience:



  • 5+ years of experience developing and shipping software products and/or services.

  • 2-4 years as team lead or manager of a cross-functional engineering team.

  • Hands-on solid systems design competencies and experience building channels(APIs, Messaging, and Chat products preferred)

  • Proven experience leading technical projects and delivering on ambitious goals.

  • Deep knowledge of engineering processes, the underlying principles, and tradeoffs.

  • Fluency in one or more general-purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C#.

  • Experience designing distributed systems for cloud-based micro-services architecture.

  • Experience working in a mature DevOps, SRE, or Modern Engineering organisation supporting internet/hyper-scale services

  • Proven software architecture experience.


Nice to-have experience: You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft


Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field


Skills:



  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.

  • Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous on the job.




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