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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