Senior Engineering Manager

5 days ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Yoco↗︎ Full time

Who we are

Yoco was founded in 2015, and has since processed over R100 billion in digital payments for over 400,000 businesses in South Africa. We're breaking down barriers and unlocking economic opportunities that enable people to thrive.

We have over 330 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all with a bias for boldness, and a passion for simple, progressive solutions. We believe in uniting different people to solve hard problems together.

Our mission of making society more equal takes a variety of people, with different backgrounds and points of view, so we can keep building solutions that work for and include everyone.

Yoco is growing, and as we grow we have compelling challenges ahead of us.

Growing means we're enabling more self-employed people and businesses to thrive every day. It also means that ambitious problem-solvers with big ideas are challenged, stimulated and will thrive at Yoco.

We don't stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, we challenge ourselves and each other. We're constantly evolving — and we're doing it fast.

Grow With Us.

The opportunity

As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Ecosystem Experience tribe, you will manage up to 10 engineers spread across two teams, namely the Yoco App Core team and the Onboarding & CDD team. These teams look after the framework and base functionality of the Yoco App (web and mobile), and how we onboard new businesses and do ongoing due diligence.

You will also be involved in the Website Platform team - the team that looks after the yoco.com website. Engineering in this team is currently staffed by an external contracting firm.

Together with the Product Management lead and the Product Design manager, you will play a key leadership role in the tribe. This trio is accountable for what value this tribe delivers to the Yoco merchants.

This role reports to the head of Engineering.

What you will be doing

Engineering Managers (EMs) at Yoco focus on the following:

  1. People: Retain and grow existing talent, and attract new talent. As a Senior Engineering Manager you will lead approximately 10 engineers spread across 2 to 3 teams.

  2. Practices: Continuously improve engineering practices. As a Senior Engineering Manager you will be expected to recommend initiatives and lead multiple initiatives across Engineering that improve engineering practices.

  3. Delivery: Just as Product Managers are accountable for what teams build, Engineering Managers are accountable for how the what is delivered to our customers. To implement the how requires a detailed understanding of the what. We expect timely delivery with industry-leading quality and non-functional requirements (e.g. security, performance, availability and maintainability).

  4. Technical: Contribute to the Engineering technical direction and ensure that your teams are aligned with this technical direction. This might mean getting technically involved (e.g. coding, code reviews, etc.) to ensure that the initiatives move forward.

About you

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer

  • 5 to 7+ years of experience managing up to 10 engineers (both backend and frontend-focused engineers)

  • Experience leading a globally distributed team

  • A track record of retaining, growing and hiring great people

  • Experience in managing engineering teams in a product-based company (instead of a services-based company)

  • Experience in driving business success and product development in a highly cross-functional organisation

  • The ability to thrive with a high level of autonomy and responsibility

  • Experience in payments and/or onboarding / KYC are a bonus

The people we're looking for

We're looking for people who want to grow and have a thirst for learning. And as Yoco grows, we hope they stay with us for the long-term.

Building solutions for a more equal society is a daunting task—and it's not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, and we challenge ourselves and our teammates. We start over, we constantly evolve — and we do it fast. We know that it's just the right kind of meaningful madness for our kind of visionary human.

So, who are you? You're someone who resonates with our mission and our values, and you're relentlessly effective in your execution.

You're a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You're bright, grounded, experimental and bold. You play open cards and get stuck in. You're not afraid of change. You close the loop.

At Yoco, we laugh, embrace each other's quirks, and support one another's growth, all while staying authentic.

If this sounds like your kind of challenge, apply below and come grow with us.

Find out more about who we are here.

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