Engineering Manager (C++)

What will you do?

If you are passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems and experienced in being in a team of highly competent software engineers impacting millions of lives around you, here is an opportunity tailored for you.

As an Engineering Manager, you will interact with the entire engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing products. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Engineers in the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio
• Own end to end delivery of new features.
• Evolve the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Hire, train, and supervise engineering staff members
• Develop and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable software solutions using

  C++

  .
• Work on system-level programming involving

  memory management

  ,

  collections

  , and

  multithreading

  .
• Apply object-oriented design principles to solve real-world technical problems.
• Optimize application performance and ensure efficient memory usage.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and technical documentation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience in

  C++

  (C++11 or newer preferred).
• Solid understanding of

  Object-Oriented Programming (OOPs)

  concepts.
• Experience with

  Multithreading

  , synchronization techniques, and concurrency control.
• Good knowledge of

  Collections

  and

  Data Structures

• Strong grasp of

  Memory Management

  concepts (heap, stack, pointers, memory leaks).
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with

  STL

  ,

  Boost

  , or other C++ libraries.
• Exposure to debugging tools like

  GDB

  ,

  Valgrind

  , or performance profilers.
• Basic understanding of operating system internals and system calls.
• Experience working in high-performance or product-based environments.