Job Purpose/Mission
EEA is looking for a talented, self-starting tech
lead to join the team to help deliver affordable solar power and financial
services across Africa. This position offers a great opportunity to work
alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly
contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and
environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse
technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our
software products.
Responsibilities
- Line management of a sub-set of the software development team
(4-6 direct reports).
- Contract management with external developers(freelancers) in
collaboration with Head of Software Engineering
- Work with engineering tech-lead to put in place clear
performance management framework and provide actionable feedback and goals
for the technical team
- Grow and develop software engineers
- Establish upskilling and training path, growth path
- Structured coaching and mentorship plan
- Institute processes to address performance gaps and ensure
the team is technically competent
- Together with tech-lead, ensure effective onboarding of new
engineers
- Recruit software team for their pillar and maintain a pipeline
of candidates
- Together with tech leads, resource Management to align with
key delivery milestones
- Actively participate and understand the ROI of engineering
efforts, understand the value creation and the priorities to the business.
- Contributing to team culture (within the product team and
broader digital team)
- Communication
- Technical excellence and knowledge sharing
- Team bonding
At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers.
Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only
for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA
realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and
facilitating growth for their direct reports.
We believe that great leaders:
- Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and
accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action
and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.
- Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest,
respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a
foundation of trust and openness.
- Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you
walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
- Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain
deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active
listening.
- Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you
ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.
Knowledge and skills
Experience:
- At least 7 years of relevant experience of which 2 is in
leadership role, with proven track record of leading a high performing
engineering team
- Experience in resource management and capacity planning
- Practical and thorough understanding of the various software
development methodologies, their application in different contexts and
trade-offs
- Experience in hiring, onboarding and maintaining pipeline of
engineers. Demonstrated ability to create suitable conditions to retain
talent
- Knowledge of developer productivity tools and performance
frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx..) in the software space
- Ability to identify and address process gaps, culture issues
and conflicts
- Hands-on, senior level competency of full-stack software
development using relevant front and backend frameworks
- Entrepreneurial and forward thinking with ability to recognize
the impact of technology in business
- Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and
organized code structuring
- Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)
- Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer
science fundamentals
Qualifications:
- Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline
(Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred)
or comparable
Language(s):
- English
- French is a plus
Our Technology stack:
- Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi
- Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java
- Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ
- Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular
- API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi
- TDD: RSpec , PyTest
- Search: Thinking Sphinx
- Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
- Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
- Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible
- Fresh Ideas Always welcome!
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