Engineering Manager at Jumia

Job Description

What you will be doing

• Be part of the Jumia Engineering Management team and play a key role in Jumia’s technology plan
• Be a role model for the Jumia Values
• Lead the delivery of key projects with great quality and within timelines
• Coach engineers in your team and set their career path
• Drive your team on a continuous lookout for improvement
• Build reliable systems that scale to Jumia’s ambitions
• Interact and communicate effectively with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders
• Partner with the product lead to manage project scope and ensure the technical deliverables are met
• Identify headcount needs for the team, plan and recruit to fill these needs
• Find a group of humble and smart people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
• Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team

What we are looking for

• Experience as an individual contributor or Engineering Manager working with agile methodologies
• A track record of leading effective teams (officially or unofficially – this may be your first experience as an Engineering manager)
• Experience with estimation of efforts, and leading project delivery within timelines and with good quality, removing blockers when needed
• Experience in working with Principal Engineers to define solutions
• Comfortable with Agile Metrics and continuously improving the performance of the teams
• An eye for recruiting great people
• A great sense to manage technical debt and you know investing in quality will make you go faster
• The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
• The ambition to grow the company and within the company
• A great technical sense to challenge engineers and product to make the right decisions
• Full professional English proficiency

We Offer:

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders