Software Engineering Manager at M-KOPA Nigeria

The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager

Location: Lagos
Category: Technology – Backend Engineering
Job type: Full Time

Job Description

We are scaling up every technology team to build on of the world’s most innovative Fin Tech platforms. Our technical teams are fully remote, and engineers thrive on a mix of collaboration and autonomy.
We hire great people and then trust them to get work done without putting artiﬁcial barriers in front of them. We organize the department by discipline and function, so everyone has the chance to pick a lane—but also grow outside, building skills in an environment where good engineering is respected.
Software Engineering Manager role is to work Remote within the following time zone GMT -1/GMT +3.
At M-KOPA, our Software Engineering Managers are highly skilled engineers who have moved to the management track.
To be successful in this position, you need to have worked as an engineer and understand the demanding profession of software engineering, and you’ll have extensive experience designing event driven microservice systems.
Responsible for multiple cross-discipline teams, you will work with product managers to shape your team’s strategic backlog, ensuring that the team leads for each team knows and is bought into the team’s strategy. You will empower your team to make good choices around architecture and day-to-day delivery.
Under your guidance, each team you look after will be highly engaged, autonomous, and deliver high-quality product iterations at a good velocity. You will demonstrate empathy for our customers, and your colleagues and provide emotional safety within a low ego environment.
You will be accountable for the team’s delivery and report on mutually agreed SLOs. You will have the autonomy to shape and create new teams under your leadership, with the expectation that your mandate will grow steadily year on year in a growing department. You will empower your teams to have autonomy in their day-to-day activities, and agile practices.
Beyond your direct teams, you will also have significant influence in wider departmental decisions and be expected to help with cross-department initiatives that will level up how M-KOPA builds software

Requirements
To achieve this, you’ll be expected to:

Put people first, bringing your most empathetic self to work
Take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes with data
Have at least 7 years of commercial software engineering experience in either .NET or Android
You understand that DevOps is a culture, and you know that teams delivering code, infrastructure, and operational support can give the best results
Know how to empower teams to deliver their best work
Collaborate with other Software Engineering Managers to grow and improve the department and wider business

You might be a good fit if you:

Understand that people’s problems are the hardest problems
Challenge the status quo but understand pragmatic decisions
Enjoy working with cross-functional teams, and collaborating with leads and product managers to deliver change that improves our customers’ lives
Come to work to learn and share your knowledge, ideas, and thought processes to solve the challenges ahead of you
We embrace a DevOps culture, so when joining us you’ll be empowering your teams to not on ship code, but own the whole cycle from ideation to production support and Engineering Manager Job Description 3 every step in between.

Remuneration
What you’ll get in return: