Recent Job Vacancies at Andela Nigeria, 23rd September 2019

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Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, Rwanda and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage. We are recruiting to fill the position below:       Job Title: Technical Team Lead Location: Lagos, Nigeria About the Role

• Andela’s Technology department is charged with implementing products that will help Andela to scale with consistency and quality while providing excellent service internally and externally.  It is responsible for finding the best solution for Andela’s needs, not necessarily the best solution that Andela can build.
• In this role, you will primarily work as a Technical Team Lead within the Technology department leading a team of developers building a world-class software platform that supports all Andela internal products.

You’re the kind of person who:

• Believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• Is constantly learning and expanding your skill sets on and off the job.
• Can mentor entry-level developers willing to become world-class.
• Is driven by purpose, passion, thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of a better world.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to 5 engineers in developing an internal product and ensuring their team’s Success
• Encourage and promote engineering best practices within the team
• Conduct design sessions, code reviews and pair programming sessions with team members
• Identify and clear roadblocks for the team
• Collaborate with the Product Manager to ensure the code the team write matches the product and business needs
• Partner effectively with the Product Manager to manage scope and deliverables for the technical side of the product roadmap
• Manage technical debt
• Maintain a consistent product velocity and drive the team to deliver on its estimates
• Groom and mentor engineers on their team
• Provide frequent feedback to engineers on their work

Technologies we use:

• Javascript/Node.js
• Angular
• Postgres
• Kubernetes, Google Pub/Sub
• Datadog

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Experience leading a team of software engineers in an agile environment (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Experience building scalable backend systems (e.g. microservices)
• Experience setting up and managing a continuous integration or a continuous delivery process
• Experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and messaging queues.
• TDD and pair programming experience
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply             Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Front End Location: Lagos, Nigeria What You’ll Do

• Our Andelan Senior Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

What You’ll Bring

• All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5-10 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Required:

• Deep knowledge of at least one front-end framework -- React, Angular, Vue
• Working knowledge of at least one CSS framework -- Bootstrap, Materialize CSS, Semantic UI
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript core language concepts -- DOM manipulation, Fetch API, ES6 features
• Deep knowledge of the fundamental front-end languages/technologies -- HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Extensive experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Deep knowledge of unit and integration testing and testing frameworks/libraries (Ex: Jest, Jasmine, Mocha)
• Working knowledge of tools and editors-- (ex:  Grunt, JSLint)
• Working knowledge of at least one task runner -- gulp, npm scripts

Preferred:

• Experience using ESLint and module builders
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance

What You’ll Get

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply             Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Location: Lagos, Nigeria What You’ll Do

• Our Andelan Senior Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

What You’ll Bring

• All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5-10 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Required:

• Mastery of the core features of at least one backend language: Python, JavaScript/Node, PHP, Ruby
• Advanced understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: i.e Flask/Django for Python; Node/Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen/Laravel for PHP.
• Deep knowledge of the fundamental front-end languages/technologies -- i.e  HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Deep knowledge of at least one front-end framework -- React, Angular, Vue as well as experience with responsive design interface development
• Extensive experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Working knowledge of at least one complementary front-end languages/frameworks (ex: React, Angular, Vue )
• Intermediate understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: Flask/Django for Python; Node/Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen/Laravel for PHP.
• Deep understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database, ORMs/ODMs and Web storage API (front end)
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Comfort with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Comfort working within at least one cloud hosting platform --(ex: AWS, GCP)
• Working knowledge of tools and editors-- (ex:  Grunt, Sublime, Atom, JSLint)
• Measured experience with unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management

Preferred Skills:

• Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools (Ex: Git, Jira)
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure and orchestration
• Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.

What You’ll Get

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply                   Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Mobile Location: Lagos, Nigeria What You’ll Do

• Our Andelan Senior Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.
• Act as role-model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship and universal respect.

What You’ll Bring

• All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5-10 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Languages/Frameworks:

• Proficient at an expert level in either Java/Kotlin for Android and Objective-C/Swift for iOS.
• Proficient at an expert level in mobile platform frameworks -- i.e UIKit(iOS), MapKit, ARKit, RxJava, RxSwift
• Working knowledge of UI Design libraries/frameworks -- i.e Material Design (Android)

Data Stores:

• Expert level understanding of fundamental database concepts -- i.e database tables, querying databases, normalization, joins, database management systems
• Good understanding of at least one database for Mobile dev -- i.e SQLite, RealmDB
• Good understanding of cloud mobile database backends, like Firebase
• Working knowledge of ORMs/ODMs -- i.e Room ORM, SqlDelight, CoreData

Testing/Security:

• Working knowledge of network security and deep knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, as well as other testing frameworks/libraries -- JUnit(For Java), Espresso, Appium, XCTest(iOS)

Tools:

• Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools-- Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Git, Mercurial
• Familiarity with language/platform build IDEs/tools -- i.e Simulators/Emulators and Gradle(Android), Android Studio, XCode

DevOps:

• Working knowledge of DevOps tools -- i.e Firebase, Fabric, Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI, Google Play Store, Apple's App Store.
• Working Knowledge of analytics tools -- i.e crashlytics, HockeyApp

What You’ll Get

• Full-time compensation
• Full Medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply             Job Title: Software Engineer - Back End Location: Lagos, Nigeria What You’ll Do

• Our Andelan Software Engineers are masters of consistent execution. They reliably deliver technical and professional value to our teams and our partners.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our partners around the world.
• Mentor and onboard junior engineers, by consistently displaying sound judgement, setting expectations, and working effectively, both independently and as part of a global team.
• Collaborate excellently with peers and stakeholders in fast-paced distributed teams, through a love of constructive feedback, dedication and universal respect.

What You’ll Bring

• All Andela engineers go above and beyond. To find out more about additional suggested competencies, check out our engineer framework.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3-7 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built technical expertise and professionalism.

Required:

• Intermediate-level understanding of at least one core backend language: Python, JavaScript/Node, PHP, Ruby, Java
• Working knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming concepts i.e Classes and objects, Inheritance, Encapsulation and Polymorphism.
• Good understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs
• Working knowledge of core data structures
• Experience working with of software engineering collaboration tools
• Experience with architecture and design principles, building to consider maintainability, performance, security requirements, and impact.
• Familiarity with at least one cloud hosting platform --(ex: AWS, GCP)

Preferred:

• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Intermediate understanding of unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries -- PyTest, Nose, Jasmine, Mocha, Jest
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Experience having worked with at least one Web Framework for your language of choice
• Comfort and familiarity with code editor and formatting tools
• Familiarity with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)
• Working knowledge of at least one CI/CD tool -- Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration techniques
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Knowledge of unit, integration, e2e and UI testing, with at least one relevant testing framework
• Familiarity with containerization infrastructure and orchestration
• Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.

What You’ll Get

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field
• A chance to change the world for the better

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply           Job Title: Community Manager, Technical Talent Location: Lagos Type: Full-Time About You

• You are an inspirational people manager and a thoughtful, data-driven leader of program designers and program managers
• You thrive when providing coaching and defining structure for growing teams
• You understand that what gets measured is what gets achieved and you balance a ruthless focus on the numbers with a willingness to explore, test, and pilot innovations that create opportunities to 10x existing initiatives.
• You are deeply aligned with Andela’s core values and believe strongly in developing and investing in diverse communities of talent
• Inclusivity and impact are two of your driving forces. You care for, believe in, and understand the future of Africa’s technology scene are comfortable talking the talk with global technologists and are committed to leadership in support of others.

About the Senior Community Manager, Technical Talent Role:

• You will be responsible for leading, building, and maintaining Andela’s talent pipeline and pre fellowship initiatives (internally and externally) and scalable programs that attract a broad, diverse group of aspiring African Technologists and prepare them for the Andela Fellowship as well as other opportunities in the global economy
• Leading the community and owning the brand of Andela, to attract new community members and fellows to the organization.  Build and own country specific and regional strategy, outreach and messaging for Community-at-large
• Build models, metrics of success and growth strategies, ensuring long-term success and growth of our community.

Developer Ecosystem Engagement:

• Define community building and engagement strategy for the region.
• Stimulate advocacy, oversee production and deliver Community engagement material.
• Develop programs and material to facilitate contribution on-ramp.
• Represent the organization at conferences, organize / deliver Meetups
• Create opportunities to engage with relevant partners in a way that generates maximum value for our community.
• Driving meaningful engagements with key stakeholders within the wider ecosystem.

Community Outreach:

• Create programs to increase organization’s brand awareness for decision makers and developers in our ecosystem.
• Manage and optimize outreach budget across community engagement, advertising, content marketing, events, etc

Pre-Fellowship Programs:

• Build  Andela community pipeline and ensure that it’s active and sustainable to track performance of the community members.
• Drive increasing Community engagement in our members through Open Saturdays, Pre-bootcamp workshops etc..
• Design systems that enable enough facilitation hours to effectively invest in learners to get them fit for fellowship
• Iterate program design and program management methods to improve efficiency and scale reach 10x+

Community Management would determine business requirement and business goals for service relationships both internally and externally. Product Managers for the Supply chain which involves designing the product specs and processes to hire the best developers for the fellowship Key Relationships External:

• Prospective Candidates
• Andela Partners
• Community members
• Hubs.

Internal:

• Media team
• Marketing Team
• Operations Team
• Curriculum Team
• Partnerships Team
• Bootcamp Team
• People and Culture Team.

Requirements As the idea candidates for this role you should have:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant managerial experience and strong leadership skills.
• Deep understanding of the Lagos Developer Ecosystem will be a plus (other notable community experience will be accepted)
• Understanding of how to leverage technology and build scalable systems, programs, and team without compromising quality;
• Have outstanding written and spoken communication skills as well as good listening skills.
• Are a self-starter who can accomplish tasks with minimal supervision.
• Have a high level of attention to detail and organization

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply                   Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer Location: Lagos About The Role

• In this role, you will primarily work as a Senior Backend Engineer within the Technology department building world-class internal products to support Andela’s business needs.
• As the Senior Backend Engineer, you will take on complex tasks and complete them despite roadblocks, grabbing others for help or insight as necessary. You will require very little oversight beyond high-level direction; you can take a complex user story, break it down into sub-tasks, and complete their sub-tasks with relative ease.
• You will show initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list; you are able to identify and suggest areas of future work for yourself or your team. You will drive product velocity and deliver products with confidence. You will take pride in building products that are key to helping Andela grow and scale as an organization.

You’re the Kind of Person Who:

• Believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• Is constantly learning and expanding your skill sets on and off the job.
• Can mentor entry-level developers willing to become world-class.

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Work closely with Product Managers and Stakeholders to understand the business needs
• Deliver complex software solutions that meet those needs
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Andela’s internal systems
• Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, code reviews, and pair programming
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches
• Mentor entry-level developers willing to become world-class.

We are interested in a candidate with experience in the following technologies that we currently use:

• Javascript / Node.js
• Typescript
• Postgres
• Google Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Pub/Sub , kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of software development experience
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• TDD and pair programming experience
• Experience or strong interest in microservices architectures and distributed systems
• Solid written and verbal communication
• A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system automation
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps , Continuous Delivery and TDD.

Bonus:

• Experience developing ed-tech or learning technology products.

EPIC Values Alignment:

• Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
• The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family
• Interested?
• If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply               Job Title: Creative Designer Location: Lagos About the Role

• The role is for an excellent storyteller that not only creates visually and high impact designs but intuitive and functional ones.
• You’ll be an integral part of designing the future of Andela’s online and offline marketing platforms.
• A background in shipping full-spectrum marketing campaigns and the gamut of marketing materials to a national and/or global audience and driving impactful results is a huge plus.
• Work directly with the Digital Marketing Manager, to ensure quality content is produced to drive the goals of the marketing team and ensure high conversions across Africa by collaborating with the rest of the Creative Communications teams.

Responsibilities

• Design for consistent and seamless experiences across mediums that build our business and connection to our target audience across all Andela Locations.
• Own the visual communication of the Andela brand across all digital channels and 360 Media.
• Translate the Andela vision and values into brand elements that are cohesive, modern, and inviting.
• Create brand assets such as logos, iconography, illustrations, color palettes, patterns and other design elements when needed. Work on a range of ambitious projects including, but not limited to, UI designs, content graphics, social media graphics, event collateral, print materials, internal collateral, infographics, storyboards, and illustrations.
• Help the team produce its best work by clearly communicating brand guidelines regarding typography, color, layout, and art direction.
• Ensure Andela's visual design and brand consistency in all assets by producing high-quality visual designs and illustrations or assisting the team with rules and templates to follow.
• Stay informed about competitors, best practices, existing initiatives, past projects, and target audience research. Use data about the talent pool experience and research across all countries to improve designs across all digital channels.
• Collaborate with senior leaders, marketing peers, and talent managers to translate vision, feedback, and ideas into workable sketches, wireframes, and full visual designs.

Qualifications

• A portfolio that showcases your design work (including a few large scale projects), as well as your design process, strategic thinking, and planning behind it.
• Clear and strategic process for developing a brand marketing strategy
• A history of shipping high-powered and visually rich marketing campaigns
• Experience working on creative for social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
• Have outstanding organizational skills and experience building marketing systems as well as the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Work with stakeholders to ship brand marketing materials and campaigns that impact business goals
• Articulate why specific creative decisions were made to stakeholders
• Minimum of 4 years of working design experience (in-house experience preferred)
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Graphic Design or a similar area of study is preferred)
• A thorough understanding of designing for digital platforms and advanced proficiency with Adobe Creative Cloud and Sketch/XD
• Exceptional skills and standards for typography, color, layout, storytelling, and detail in the design.
• Strong communication and writing skills, experience with content strategy, and understanding marketing business goals.
• Motivated to create excellent design work, share and learn with your design team, and driven to always be improving.
• Track record of creating exceptional materials for 360 Media (TV, Print, Digital Ads, Social media, etc)
• User interface design skills, producing designs in High fidelity mockups.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply               Job Title: Technical Lead (Technical Success Manager) Location: Lagos About the Technical Success Manager Position

• As a Technical Success Manager, you will primarily manage Developers placed on engagements with Partners, and ensure that teams are working well together. You would walk a very fine line between the Success of our Partners and the Success of our Developers. Our Partners operate in a wide-range of industries, but their common thread is that they create mobile and/or web-based products that bring value to their customers through the use of technology.
• As a key Partner-facing member of Andela’s Partner support team, you will be responsible for providing team and engagement support in relevant areas. Our core consulting model is embedded software developers and teams. Distributed work environments are growing in popularity but the lack of physical proximity still brings unique operational challenges. No two days will ever be alike, variety will be constant.
• With your knowledge of business, technology, remote communication and agile project management, you will help make the distance between our engineers and their teams---thousands of kilometers in most cases---feel like a logistical afterthought.

Key Responsibilities The specific responsibilities of the Technical Success Manager position include:

• Direct Management of up to 20 Developers embedded within global Partners, to ensure their success
• Accountable for technical delivery of Developers embedded with up to 10 Partners
• Collaborate with Solution Architect and Partner Experience to ensure engagement support
• Primary technical delivery/quality escalation point both to Partners and Developers in terms of:
  • Ensuring Developer’s delivery are aligned with Partners goals and visions
  • Ensuring that Developers understand business context, value and impact of their tasks
  • Working with Developers in regards task brainstorm, decomposition and prioritization
  • Providing high level design support on how to solve specific coding challenges.
  • Performing code reviews when required
• Guide the first 30-days impression relative to effective communication, on-boarding expectations etc.
• Share, advocate for and promote best practices in engagements across their team
• Mentor and Coach direct reports on their team
• Accountable for Partner and Developer related action plans, to resolve delivery concerns
• Support Success via reporting compliance using key internal tools
• KPI monitoring/review to enable Partner/Team/Developer success and compliance
• Collaborate on Developer’s Performance Management: tracking, plans, process, review, survey
• Support the Senior Success Manager (SSM) on strategic, operational, and team areas
• Effective collaboration with other Success Managers (Success Operations, Consultant Manager etc.).

Qualifications & Characteristics As the ideal candidate for this role you:

• May have a 4-year degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field from accredited University
• Have at least 4 years experience working in software development, technology consulting etc.
• Are proficient in at least one of the following stacks:
  • Ruby/Ruby on Rails
  • PHP/Laravel/Lumen
  • Python/Django/Flask
  • Java/Android
  • JavaScript/MEAN/PEAN/PREN
  • iOS/Swift
  • iOS/Objective C
• Have a strong understanding of agile software development techniques
• Have experience working remotely as an effective member of a team
• Have vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English, verbal and written)
• Have a strong desire to coach and mentor Developers
• Have ability to build rapport and communicate with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds
• Have excellent interpersonal skills
• Have strong leadership skills
• Are motivated by our mission to advance human potential
• Are passionate about evolving technology landscape and its use to solve business problems
• Have the ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family

EPIC Values Alignment:

• Demonstrable commitment to the learning & development of people and technology
• The ability to learn new things fast enough to amaze your friends and family
• Interested?
• If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply             Job Title: Senior Program Manager, Talent Product Locations: Nairobi-Kenya, Kampala - Uganda, Lagos- Nigeria About The Role

• The Senior Program Manager, works within the Talent Product team that is focused on scaling the talent of Andela’s 1000+ engineers and providing increased value to our partners. They will lead a portfolio of initiatives and projects, collaborating across teams and functions.
• They will collaborate on and contribute to product strategy, build and manage operational structures and processes, to realise the cost-efficient, seamless and scalable implementation of programs and initiatives against the Talent Product roadmap.

Responsibilities Operations:

• Oversees a portfolio of programs, initiatives, budgets, and operating plans to support the tactical and strategic direction of Talent Product and Andela.
• Collaborate with cross-departmental stakeholders (Partner Engineering, Sales, Staffing .etc.) to ensure seamless execution of quarterly goals, initiatives, and program milestones.
• Monitor and evaluate program performance against KPI’s/OKR’s, organisational goals, and revenue targets.
• Contribute to and take lead on communicating progress, impact, learnings, and recommendations to relevant stakeholders across Andela.

Leadership:

• Lead and manage organisation wide change catalysed by Talent Product programs and initiatives ensuring efficient, seamless and consistent adoption across all locations.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders across multiple departments (Sales, Staffing, Partner Engineering, Technology, TDD) and leverage rapport to drive Talent Product goals.
• Build and manage channels for communication, collaboration, user testing, feedback and program adoption within the Andela Engineering Community
• Manage a team of Program and Project management professionals
• Oversee direct reports KPI’s/OKR’s, quarterly initiatives, performance reviews, growth and development and overall satisfaction in their respective roles.

Requirements

• 4+ years of program management experience (or experience in a related field)
• At least (2) years in a software related field such as Software Engineering, Engineering Management or Product Management.
• Proven capability to lead a team of direct reports.
• Experience in project/program management methodology, tools, and techniques.
• Strong analytical (quantitative and qualitative), problem solving and big picture thinking skills.
• Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management.
• High level of proficiency with Google suite(sheets, docs, slides), Slack and Zoom.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills with demonstrated experience. collaborating effectively across multiple functions, locations and cultures.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Experience managing change.
• Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify Andela’s values.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply             Job Title: Product Coordinator Locations: Lagos, Nigeria, Nairobi, Kenya About You

• You are curious, passionate and data driven. A lifelong learner who is eager to continuously deliver compelling value to a diverse and growing user base, through a product or a productised orchestration of services and experiences.

About The Role

• At Andela, we believe that Technology Leaders are defined by their ability to model, capture, and transfer the mindset and best practices of their craft to any technology professional from entry level developers to senior software engineers.
• In this role, you will nurture and demonstrate that expertise by investing in the next generation of African technology leaders to gain the skills needed to be globally employable engineers who consistently delight their teams and employers

Key Responsibilities

• For pre-Andela learning and community programs, create and maintain learner journey mappings and learning paths with clear outcomes and critical data points
• Lead and collaborate with stakeholders to productise the landscape of pre-Andela learning, community, and ecosystem programs.
• Interact with stakeholders and customers to clearly understand product requirements in a data driven way.
• Advice on critical data to capture and how to capture them. Analyse product, user or market data, surface insights and provide recommendations
• Analyze and coordinate product related activities to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations
• Develop product specifications and roadmaps. Provide support in preparing RFPs, white papers and marketing documents.
• Lead or collaborate in product risk assessment, management and mitigation activities.
• Lead or collaborate in organizing shows, special events and other promotional or engagement events around products and offerings.
• Propose new ideas to drive commercialisation or gain profitability on products
• Contribute to Andela’s learning engagement and program evolution by modelling and running high impact initiatives, and also providing quality feedback
• Continuously level up on your own technical and professional skills and grow with the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with leading and managing multiple high-value projects and products involving several stakeholders, in a data driven way.
• Fluent in oral and written communication in English.
• Proactive, clear and concise communication
• Ability to set and communicate clear goals and targets. Transparently track progress towards set targets and effectively communicate business value on a constant basis.

EPIC Values alignment:

• Demonstrable commitment to the improvement of people and processes through data and technology
• The ability to learn new things fast enough, pull out key insights, and tell a compelling story.

Interested?

• If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks provided daily
• Beautiful working environment
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!

How to Apply Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply   Note: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Application Deadline: Not Specified.

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