Engineering Manager

Overview

As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the successful delivery and execution of projects within your teams, managing end-to-end technical planning and coordinating engineers, product managers, QA and UX to deliver product features in a timely and predictable manner.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams within your product area, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment, translating them into well-defined EPICs and technical user stories.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to continuously refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog.
• Plan and drive sprint execution with clearly defined goals, using project planning tools to establish timelines, delivery milestones, and surface dependencies early.
• Champion engineering processes and rituals that enable strong collaboration, accountability, and team efficiency.
• Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize resource allocation, proactively balancing bandwidth against delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment to remove bottlenecks and maintain smooth execution.
• Stay hands-on in critical initiatives by guiding design decisions, enforcing sound design patterns, and participating in code reviews to maintain high engineering quality.
• Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and observability for all owned services, consistently meeting defined SLIs and SLOs.
• Partner with Product Managers to define, track, and publish post-release product metrics, driving transparency and continuous improvement.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8-10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or in a similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of strong experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Minimum 3 years of proven engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex product requirements into well-structured EPICs, user stories, and tasks.
• Strong backend engineering expertise.
• Experience with project planning and tracking tools to visualize and manage delivery timelines.
• Familiarity with engineering and product health metrics and monitoring tools to drive data-informed decisions.
• Hands-on capability to debug complex production issues, lead incident response, and conduct blameless RCA.
• Good understanding of modern deployment practices, including CI/CD pipelines, release management, and associated metrics.
• Ability to drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Excellent risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proven track record of improving team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence.
• Generic skills: problem-solving, strong written and verbal communication, adaptability, and attention to detail.
• Supervisory skills: team management and mentoring engineers, resource allocation, regular performance reviews with constructive feedback, and stakeholder management.

Nice to have

• Exposure to frontend technologies.

Details

• Location: Remote, Lagos, Nigeria.