Software Engineering Manager at Branch

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. In our engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making: We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. As a Lead in our Engineering team, you will help the team achieve its goals through servant-style leadership and removing roadblocks. Similarly, you will help the team achieve the right balance between engineering excellence and shipping and iterating solutions quickly.

Responsibilities

• You will help build a culture of collaboration that embodies our values. The collab should also help us achieve our goals as a distributed team.
• Work with other stakeholders to recruit, grow, and empower a team of driven engineers who have high expectations around ownership, impact, and technical excellence
• Collaborating with your team, you will craft a thoughtful, long-term technical strategy that anticipates future needs while being pragmatic about what’s needed today.
• You will be a hands-on technical contributor and mentor for your team, who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and do actual technical work when appropriate.
• You will work with other engineering managers and functional leads to set direction and ambitious goals for your team, Engineering, and Branch.

Qualification

• 2+ years of engineering management experience, preferably in an established technology firm or a product-focused high-growth startup.
• Experience handling performance reviews must have handled at least one performance review cycle independently.
• Significant experience (4+ years) as a software engineer, ideally across organizations, industries, and technology stacks.
• A record of mentorship and helping others in their career growth.
• Experience and excitement for recruiting, combined with a thoughtful approach to team growth.

Location: Nigeria. Remote

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