Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Engineering Manager to join our team in Cape Town. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale : Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
- Learn : We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow : Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Guide team development efforts toward successful delivery
- Provide technical leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship
- Enforce high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
- Collaborate with other software developers, technical product managers, product owners, and business owners to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates, and work plans
- Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software
- Ensure that the team builds applications in accordance with agreed 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 prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
- 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
- Serve as an integral part of the recruitment team for open positions within the team
- Provide performance input of assigned team members for the performance enhancement review process
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders outside of your area
- Strong driver to identify and improve key areas for engineering staff retention
- Influences team to adopt current company technology standards
- Ensure your team implements on-call rotations, and manages their operations effectively
- Enables the team to reduce tech debt, automate mundane work, reduce hot desk workload, and build systems for success
The skills we need:
- A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation for inventing and simplifying
- A curious thinker who understands technical topics beyond the average reader
- Comfortable with rapidly changing and/or loosely defined requirements that are refined over time
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms
Qualifications & Experience:
- 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 the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses thereof
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with cloud service providers like GCP/AWS and development in a *nix environment
- Strong hands-on experience in Python development, with a mindset for developing optimized code
- Experience with creating APIs and using databases (relational & non-relational)
Like what you see?
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
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