At WASSHA, we light up peoples lives. We aim to help the truly disadvantaged and challenged groups of our society by providing them with affordable options for lighting. You will enable services that help children to study after dark, small stores to stay open longer, and fishermen to improve the size of their catch at night. Our service consists of custom-built third party hardware, in-house systems and third party APIs.

As an Engineering Manager, you will help your team and product grow. You will act as an enabler for your team, unblocking issues, communicating with business stakeholders and managing the product roadmap for the product owned by your team. You will be directly involved in creating technical project specification from roadmap items, and translating these into backlog items.

You will also act as a mentor and leader by providing technical leadership via code reviews and technical direction. On a people management level, you will help your team members grow in both their careers, and as individuals, by conducting regular 1on1s and goal setting.

Details

• Location: Remote (any jurisdiction where you have permission to work)
• Position type: Full-Time
• Job Category: Engineering Manager
• Experience Level: Middle/Senior
• Department: Software Engineering
• Reports to: Director of Software Engineering
• Supervised teams: 2
• Team size: 2 to 3 members per team

You Would Be Interested In the Role If You

• Enjoy collaborating and growing together with both engineering and business peers.
• Enjoy the process of collaborating to creating product roadmaps and project specifications, and then breaking down these items into development tasks. 
• Find value in following Agile development processes.
• Believe in shipping high quality products backed by readable, testable, and maintainable code that continuously integrated via small, safe deployments.
• Enjoy fostering a positive engineering culture, encouraging knowledge sharing and guiding in technical discussions with your team
• Believe in following best practises such as knowledge sharing and data driven decision-making.
• Find fulfilment in enabling the success of your team members.
• And lastly, you will really need to like creating quality documentation in everything you do, from project specification to issue descriptions.

• A degree in computer science or a relevant field, experience in designing and developing APIs, and some understanding of transaction and data processing systems.
• 2 or more years of experience managing a team of 3+ members in a technical leadership role.
• General familiarity with SQL and other database technologies.
• Working understanding of and interest in SRE related topics and their practical application.
• “You build it, you run it” attitude: experience or interest in fully engineering owned product development. 
• Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Django and Terraform is a very strong plus.

The following would give you an edge when evaluating similar candidates.

Additional Language Skills

• Japanese, we are a Japanese company, and a lot of our knowledge base is still written in Japanese.
• Swahili, French, Portuguese, as our customer base is located in countries using these languages.

Other Skills And Interests

• Project management
• Product ownership
• Technical product management

*** THIS POSITION DOES NOT INCLUDE RELOCATION ***