Software Engineering Manager at SafeBoda

At SafeBoda we always try to work with the latest technology and we are obsessed with the user experience. We follow agile methodologies in a team split on 3 main products: Mobile Apps for drivers, passengers and partners (merchants, agents & vendors), and a Company Admin Portal.

What is the role?

SafeBoda is hiring for a software engineering manager to manage our back end software systems. In this role you will be expected to perform the following.

• Design, execute, and maintain back end software engineering applications. This includes microservices, API’s, devops, and databases.
• Supervise training and development of back end software engineering staff.
• Ensure software deliverables are held up to the company standard through code reviews, and managing software quality assurance
• Assign work to back end software engineering personnel and manage their performance.
• Support to recruit engineering personnel, technical staffing and project teams formation.
• Supervise back end engineering deliverables.
• Manage continuing support and provide system metrics for back end technical stack.
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions.
• Support preparation of Technology Roadmap.
• Comply with all tech, product departmental as well as company best practices.
• Help translation of business requirements into technical needs and actions.
• Supervise reporting responsibility for independent software contractors, software engineers and outsourcing partners.
• Ensure software engineering personnel is suitably trained to perform all job functions and suitably use project and software related tools.
• Help determine and design system specifications & standards.
• Investigate, and analyze technology improvements, upgrades, and modifications.
• You will develop features across multiple subsystems including collaboration in requirements definition, prototyping, design, coding, testing, and deployment.
• You will design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.
• You will analyze and resolve technical and application problems.
• You will assist with the packaging and support deployment of releases.

Desired Technical Skills 

• 5 + years of software development experience
• Experience with functional programming a plus
• Vast knowledge for backend software programming languages such as Elixir, Node JS, and PHP 
• Experience with working with SQL and NOSQL database technologies
• Demonstrated experience producing readable and testable code
• Have extensive experience working hands-on in an agile environment
• Cares about quality and know what it means to ship high quality code
• Can identify, debug and resolve complex production issues
• Experience with distributed systems, architectural patterns/styles, and design patterns would be an advantage.

Desired Personal Skills

• Critical thought, analytical thinking and good communication skills
• Capacity to work with members of the team working in different countries 
• Good organizational and time management abilities
• Great attention to detail and a results driven approach
• Willing to go above and beyond; we would like someone who wants everything under control and wants to try all the different possibilities that can happen
• An attitude of accountability and knowledge-sharing. You enjoy reviewing others' code and sharing your knowledge
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Empathy, respect and a big sense of humor; we are people before engineers
• English communication skills

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Free tasty lunch everyday for all staff at the SafeBoda academy
• Free SafeBoda wallet balance to take daily rides to and from work 
• Life & Health Insurance
• Paid Annual leave
• A supportive team environment with mentorship from SafeBoda leadership
• Contribute to our mission to empower communities to thrive and scale with our rapidly growing startup