Vacancy Details
Employer: GROWING FIN TECH
Director of Engineering
Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a Director of Engineering with strong experience in web app or mobile full-stack development to join our client based in Eastern Africa, Uganda/Kenya.
Remote - Occasional Travel - Kampala, Uganda, Nairobi, Kenya - Remote +/- 3hrs of East Africa Timezone.
This is a full-time, leadership role in a fast-growing East African fintech and we are looking for a Director of Engineering to continue growing their engineering team as a best in class technology team in service of their clients and mission. You are a great fit if you've built or led the development of an entire product line or business in the past from prototype to production and have managed an engineering organization with multiple functional units. In the past, you’ve excelled as an individual contributor and have experience leading a team as either a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager. You have a belief in the power of an engineering team to drive scalable impact across an organization and a keen sense for how to help those in your organization grow personally and professionally.
What You Would Work On:
● Build a strong expertise and understanding of clients tech stack through rotations within their product pods including working on:
o Mobile App (React Native + Django REST API)
o Internal Underwriting and Loan Management Tools (React + Apollo + Graphene + Django)
o Additional Backend and Data Systems (Django + RQ)
o Deployment and Ops (AWS + Terraform)
● Provide Day-to-day technical guidance and decision-making support to unblock product and development teams including:
o Technical roadmap development
o Technical consultation for product teams
o Technical reviews and code reviews
● Work closely with other product and development leaders to build the best product development organization and culture in Uganda/Kenya
o Lead team building, mentoring and training of the technical team in Uganda/Kenya
● Lead technical recruitment efforts for the development team in East Africa
Your Skills and Qualifications:
● You have 5+ years of web app or mobile full-stack development resulting in strong technology fundamentals (web architecture, data modeling, front end development) and experience bringing a product to market
● You have 2+ years in the capacity of a Founder/CTO/Tech Lead/Eng. Manager
● You have led more than one functional team or unit simultaneously and been a "manager of managers"
● You have been involved in the development of a hiring process
● You have implemented a career development framework and helped junior developers through significant career advancement
● Bonus if you’ve been an early engineer in a startup that’s gone from Seed to Series B+
Apply by sending us your CV or get in touch ASAP for further details.
Required Skills
- Management
- Django
- React.Js
- Aws
- Tech Lead
Candidate Requirements
● You have 5+ years of web app or mobile full-stack development resulting in strong technology fundamentals (web architecture, data modeling, front end development) and experience bringing a product to market
● You have 2+ years in the capacity of a Founder/CTO/Tech Lead/Eng. Manager
● You have led more than one functional team or unit simultaneously and been a "manager of managers"
● You have been involved in the development of a hiring process
● You have implemented a career development framework and helped junior developers through significant career advancement
● Bonus if you’ve been an early engineer in a startup that’s gone from Seed to Series B+
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