About Moove

Moove is on a mission to build the largest mobility fintech for emerging markets. Our starting point is a technology-enabled lending model to radically transform the availability of auto finance and vehicles for on-demand ridesharing services across tier 1 African cities. By doing so, Moove is creating sustainable jobs for mobility entrepreneurs in the mobility sector.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly professional and experienced engineering manager who can work in a fast-paced environment to support and grow a high-performing cross functional team.

What You’ll be Doing

• Manage, mentor and coach a team of engineers, aligning business priorities with their skills, career development areas and working styles.

• Champion excellence in your team’s domain, creating an environment of ownership where the cross functional team works together and owns its product and tech area end to end. Leverage Agile methodologies, set a high bar and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Help set technical direction, review, and influence on-going design, architecture, and standards.

• Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

• Get full knowledge about the business domain and work closely with Product and business stakeholders to build the vision, goals and opportunities to ensure we're building the best products. Ensure that vision and goals are cascaded to the team in a way that the team fully understands and owns the vision and goals.

What You will need for this position

• 6+ years hands-on experience designing and building scalable and complex applications

• 2+ years management experience with proven leadership skills in people management/growth and stakeholder management

• Experience in building and scaling cross functional teams

• Experience in aligning with other teams on defining scope, domain boundaries and dependencies

• Full-stack programming experience which may include React, React Native, NodeJS, Java, C#, GoLang, Python and/or C++

• Experience in recruiting and managing technical teams of engineers at different levels and areas of expertise

• Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies, preferably with AWS

• Deep and practical knowledge about monitoring & observability and setting system and business level SLIs and SLOs

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related degree, or equivalent practical experience

Who You'll Be Working with:

Directly reporting to our Director of Engineering, and closely working with our Technology Team.

About the team

Our team is collaborative, positive, curious, and engaged. We think fast, work smart, laugh often, and are looking for like-minded people to join us in our mission to disrupt vehicle ownership and make financial freedom within reach.

Moove is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where everyone and everything can move independently.

Pre-hiring Notice: Moove relies on the accuracy of information contained in employment applications, as well as the accuracy of other data presented throughout the hiring process and during employment. Any misrepresentations, falsifications, or material omissions in any information or data provided by an applicant may result in the applicant being excluded from further consideration for employment or if an individual has already been hired, termination of employment.

EEO Statement: Moove is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, political affiliation or any other protected characteristic.

Moove: Moove is a mobility asset finance company and Uber's preferred fleet partner across Sub-Saharan Africa. Our Vision is to democratise financial services to make our customers more productive and successful. Our Core values are Compassion, Excellence, Innovation, Teamwork, Trust and Ownership.