Engineering Manager

1 month ago


Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Jumia Full time

What you will be doing

  • Be part of the Jumia Engineering Management team and play a key role in Jumia's technology plan
  • Be a role model for the Jumia Values
  • Lead the delivery of key projects with great quality and within timelines
  • Coach engineers in your team and set their career path
  • Drive your team on a continuous lookout for improvement
  • Build reliable systems that scale to Jumia's ambitions
  • Interact and communicate effectively with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders
  • Partner with the product lead to manage project scope and ensure the technical deliverables are met
  • Identify headcount needs for the team, plan and recruit to fill these needs
  • Find a group of humble and smart people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
  • Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team

What we are looking for

  • Experience as an individual contributor or Engineering Manager working with agile methodologies
  • A track record of leading effective teams officially or unofficially - this may be your first experience as an Engineering manager
  • Experience with estimation of efforts, and leading project delivery within timelines and with good quality, removing blockers when needed
  • Experience in working with Principal Engineers to define solutions
  • Comfortable with Agile Metrics and continuously improving the performance of the teams
  • An eye for recruiting great people
  • A great sense to manage technical debt and you know investing in quality will make you go faster
  • The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
  • The ambition to grow the company and within the company
  • A great technical sense to challenge engineers and product to make the right decisions
  • Full professional English proficiency

We Offer:

  • A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
  • A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
  • The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
  • An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders

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