Engineering Manager, Accounts at Tala (formerly InVenture)

The Engineering Manager - Accounts will lead an Engineering Squad to unlock financial capabilities for Tala’s customers and those globally underrepresented. As an Engineering Manager, you will own a functional or architectural domain within the Accounts Engineering group, where you will lead a cross-functional team and collaborate with several other squads to provide customer value. The ideal candidate will have a track record of promoting a DevOps culture and acceptance test-driven development.

This is a technical leadership role within Tala’s technical track. You will report to the Director of Engineering - KE and collaborate cross-functionally with all Tala teams across the globe.

What You’ll Do

• Bring together a full-stack team of Backend, Frontend, QA and SDETs to continually deliver on market initiatives with quality
• Own initiatives across squads to successfully deliver customer impact
• Continually improve the relationship and integration with our third party partners
• Contribute to the Engineering roadmap and help set the vision for the group
• Mentor and grow Engineers.
• Direct reports performance management.
• Partner with Program Management to continually improve the SDLC and development processes
• Partner with Product Management to improve requirements gathering and Engineering’s understanding of what needs to be built.
• Evaluate technical designs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as an IC Engineer in Java, Scala, PHP, Go, Python
• 5+ years directly managing software engineer FTEs
• Delivered cross-functional products in a timely manner
• Worked with stakeholders to deliver on definitions of doneDeep experience building complex, scalable backend systems
• Have implemented and are familiar with RESTful API implementation, SOA and microservices
• Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases (including best practices around design and modeling)
• Experience using open source technologies
• Experience utilizing AWS
• Excellent mentoring skills
• Ability to partner with non-technical business peers in meetings and working sessions.
• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
• Strong communication and cooperation skills
• Experience with agile software development methodologies
• Experience working in and managing distributed teams
• Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
• Knowledge about common design patterns.

Added Advantage

• Application security experience.
• DevOps experience.