Andela Engineering Manager Jobs in Kenya

Andela Engineering Manager Jobs in Kenya

About Andela

Andela is developing a corps of high-quality technology talent across the African continent that will drive the current and future phases of tech-enabled growth around the world.

With the fastest growing population and highest youth population in the world, we believe Africa is one of the greatest untapped markets for talent development.

Andela advances human potential by powering today’s team and investing in tomorrow’s leaders.

We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technology leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups.

Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV (Google Ventures) and Spark Capital, Andela is building the next generation of global technology leaders.

Passion, excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and rejecting the status quo are just a few of the things that Andela team members have in common.

About the Role

Andela’s Technology department is charged with implementing products that will help Andela to scale with consistency and quality while providing excellent service internally and externally.

It is responsible for finding the best solution for Andela’s needs, not necessarily the best solution that Andela can build.

In this role, you will primarily work as a Engineering Manager within the Technology department as a people manager of up to 10 engineers, providing mentoring and coaching to the engineers, and maintaining innovative processes that monitor the health of the engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Be a combination of a highly-technical software engineer and an effective people manager
  • Recruit Technical Team Leads (TTLs) and Senior Engineers (SEs)
  • Identify potential candidates that best fit the role
  • Interview prospective TTLs and SEs to ensure fit
  • Facilitate onboarding of TTLs and SEs, in collaboration with Ops and P&C teams
  • Manage, measure and improve engineering processes
  • On boarding and off boarding process
  • Software development process
  • Manage up to 10 engineers
  • Manage team members with different skill sets and technical areas of focus
  • Mentor and coach the engineers and ensure their success
  • Encourage and promote best engineering practices with the engineers
  • Encourage a data-driven culture with the engineers to improve the efficiency, scalability, and stability of our in-house systems
  • Support the engineers in identifying, resolving and escalating issues that impact their work
  • Occasionally unblock engineers on complex issues via pair programming, whiteboarding and design sessions
  • Manage and track engineers on performance improvement plans
  • Inter-Departmental collaboration with
  • Engineering Managers to ensure collaboration across the Engineering department
  • Product Managers to advocate for and ensure the prioritization of technical initiatives
  • Cross-Departmental collaboration with
  • Local Leadership to represent and communicate engineering initiatives
  • Learning team in regards to 1 Year Developer
  • Placement Program
  • Success in regards to internal engagements
  • Operations in regards to hardware for engineers
  • P&C in regards to people issues
  • Support with budget creation, monitoring and adherence responsibilities

    Qualifications
  • 4-5 years of software development experience
  • 3+ years experience managing and growing software engineering teams as a people manager
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • A strong desire to mentor developers
  • Have ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
  • Have excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Have strong leadership skills.
  • A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software
  • Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

    EPIC Values Alignment
  • Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
  • The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family

    How to Apply
  • If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

    Benefits & Compensation

  • Full-time compensation
  • Full medical coverage
  • Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
  • Beautiful working environment
  • Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
  • Oh, and a chance to change the world!
  • Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy (including breastfeeding), genetic information, HIV/AIDS or any other medical status, family or parental status, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

    How to Apply
  • Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 27th June 2019
  • For more information and job application details, see; Andela Engineering Manager Jobs in Kenya

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