Mr D - Engineering Manager

Overview

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented Engineering Manager to join our team in Cape Town. This is a hybrid role.

Are you ready to make a real impact in one of South Africa’s most dynamic tech environments?

You will lead a team of Software Engineers delivering high-quality solutions on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.

You should have hands-on experience designing and building high-performance, scalable, and distributed backend systems with a solid understanding of architectural principles and best practices. As a proponent of iterative engineering methodologies, you will bring prior experience in line management and keeping highly skilled developers engaged and motivated.

This is a hands-on position where you will actively lead architectural and strategic planning alongside peers and senior developers. You will also take ownership of day-to-day people management and foster the growth of a high-performing team. You will contribute to and refine all stages of the software development life cycle, and you will have opportunities to stay involved in coding.

• Guide team development efforts towards successful delivery
• Provide technical leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship
• Enforce high standards of software quality by establishing good practices and habits
• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
• Collaborate with software developers, technical product managers, product owners, and business owners to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications
• Assist in collecting and documenting user requirements, development of user stories, estimates, and work plans
• Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation on status, operation, and maintenance of software
• Ensure the team builds applications in accordance with best practices and standards around security, scalability, operations, and testing
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code; develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and document rationale for share with team members
• Communicate with leadership regarding progress against plans, issues, and needs
• Work with other team leads to leverage targeted technologies, processes, standards, and methodologies
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with each assigned team member to assist with issues and provide mentoring
• Support recruitment for open positions within the team
• Provide performance input for the performance enhancement review process
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders outside of your area
• Identify and improve key areas for engineering staff retention
• Influence the team to adopt current company technology standards
• Ensure on-call rotations and operations management within the team
• Help the team reduce tech debt, automate mundane work, reduce hot desk workload, and build systems for success

• At least 5 years experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects
• Experience influencing a team of developers to deliver highly available and scalable solutions
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) new and existing systems
• Experience with stateless architecture design, microservices, and understanding their strengths and weaknesses
• Experience with full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience with cloud service providers like GCP/AWS and development in a Unix-like environment
• Strong hands-on experience in Python development, with a mindset for developing optimized code
• Experience creating APIs and using databases (relational & non-relational)

• The power is in your hands: market-related total remuneration with flexibility according to your needs
• No doors: collaborative, open work environment
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: access to courses and learning resources
• Good times: regular social events and activities
• Birthday leave:
  Cake Day off
• Support: confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance
• Tech stack (for days):
  Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IoT, ML
• Free parking: convenient access to the workspace

Equal Opportunity Employer
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Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.