Engineering Manager

Techrepo.co.za; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Techrepo.co.za in Cape Town seeks a seasoned software engineering leader to guide a team of engineers, ensuring quality, timely delivery and accountability. You will mentor peers, shape architecture, and collaborate with product owners to build scalable, secure business applications.

The role requires hands-on Python development, cloud experience (GCP/AWS), and a track record of delivering microservices. A degree in CS/Engineering is required, with 5+ years in software engineering and 2+ years

Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience with leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a software engineering team to deliver quality solutions on time
• Collaborate with product owners and business stakeholders to plan and design features
• Enforce coding standards, reviews, testing, and operations practices
• Architect and refine scalable microservices and APIs
• Drive on-call rotations and operational excellence
• Assist in recruitment and performance feedback
• Communicate plans, risks and progress to leadership
• Identify opportunities for engineering process improvements
• Develop documentation and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Guide teams in security, reliability and scalability best practices

Skills

Team leadership

Python development

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Microservices

API design

DevOps

OO fundamentals

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GCP

AWS

Unix

Job description

Job Description

About the Role

You will lead a team of Software Engineers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.

Responsibilities

• This position reports to the Platform Engineering Director of Mr D.
• Guide team development efforts towards 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

Requirements

• 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
• 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 an 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)