We are an exciting IT service provider startup that specializes in innovative solutions, tailored to meet business needs and drive digital transformation. With acquired expertise in technology, we will bring innovative and creative approaches to every business idea. We will be building a team of highly passionate individuals to share our vision and take responsibility for their roles. This is a fantastic opportunity for all.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Software Development Manager / Lead
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Description
- We’re looking for a success-minded software development Lead / manager who is passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of technical product ownership, and is committed to the journey. It is still Day 1 in our startup, and we need a creative problem-solver with exceptional judgment and the ability to deliver business results under ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines.
Key Accountabilities
- Hands on Lead decision maker on designs and deliveries, providing technical leadership to drive technical excellence, and capable of hands-on technical analysis and remediation of issues when necessary.
- Lead on developing front and backend solutions that are resilient, secure, and scalable.
- Ensure best practices are adhered to by the team so that clean and maintainable code is created.
- You will establish a team culture that focuses on engineering and operational excellence.
- Work with team members to design and implement features and services,
- Have oversight for the delivery of high-speed iterations, high code quality, and continuous improvement.
- Responsible for ‘how’ a high-level design is realized as a technical solution.
- Has a detailed knowledge and understanding of Customer Relationship Management and Contract Management.
- Ensure the engineers have the necessary skills, knowledge, and tools to complete the tasks. Work with the engineering team to address gaps as necessary
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior engineers
- Work at the project inception stage to provide product and project costs estimates, feasibility studies and ensure that high level technical requirements are capture completely prior to wider engineering involvement.
Essential Experience
- Significant software development and engineering experience in a multi-disciplinary environment, delivering products within tight timeframes.
- Proven team and project management experience with an ability to manage BAU and a project simultaneously.
- Wisdom in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers
- Excellent problem-solving skills, able to understand, analyse, and evaluate a complex business scenario and convert these into proposals that deliver appropriate technical solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience building full-stack applications.
- Experience architecting cloud-based software solutions.
- Fluency in either JavaScript or C#
- Fluency with SQL (preferably T-SQL).
- Experience with Git.
- Experience with CI/CD.
- Experience with AWS/Azure.
- Cloud-based / Kubernetes / docker container-based deployment
- Experience of building APIs and scalable backend platforms.
- Understanding of MACH architecture principles.
Desirable:
- Experience with GitHub, GibLab, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience with test automation.
Application Closing Date
10th September, 2024.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV with a Cover letter to: recruit@beesandfoxes.tech using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
Note: If you would like accommodation, we can offer a 6-month free serviced accommodation for the right candidate, please email us at accommodations@beesandfoxes.tech. This information will be used only for determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.
