Sr. Product Manager

Job Description:

We are looking for a Lead Java Developer – Backend with a strong foundation in software engineering and hands-on experience in designing and building scalable, high-performance backend systems. You’ll be working within our Digital Engineering Studios on impactful and transformative projects in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor backend development teams.
• Design and develop scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Ensure high standards of code quality through best practices such as SOLID principles and clean code.
• Participate in pair programming, code reviews, and continuous integration processes.
• Drive Agile, Lean, and Continuous Delivery practices like TDD, BDD, and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and clients for successful delivery.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 9–12+ years of experience in backend development (Up to 17 years may be considered).
• Strong programming skills in Java and backend frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Experience in designing and building large-scale, custom-built, scalable applications.
• Sound understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and SOLID principles.
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, TDD/BDD, CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Good understanding of cloud technologies – especially AWS, and exposure to GCP or Azure.
• Experience working in a product engineering environment is a plus.
• Startup experience or working in fast-paced, high-impact teams is highly desirable.

We are hiring a Java Production Support Engineer with hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Splunk. You’ll be responsible for ensuring smooth functioning of our production systems by proactively monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in real time.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 support for Java/Spring Boot-based applications in production.
• Monitor logs and system health using Splunk and other observability tools.
• Troubleshoot performance, latency, and availability issues.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and work with dev teams for permanent fixes.
• Support incident and change management processes.
• Create and maintain runbooks and support documentation.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
• Proficient in using Splunk for log analysis and monitoring.
• Good understanding of relational databases (SQL) and Linux commands.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git) and basic scripting (Bash, Python).
• Analytical thinking and excellent problem-solving skills.

Your Role:

As a Video Editor at Mugafi, you’ll work on a variety of projects that span across multiple formats and platforms, including:

• Short Films & Storytelling Content: Bring narratives to life with high-quality editing that captures the essence of our storytelling platform.
• AI Collaboration Projects: Leverage cutting-edge tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Runway ML to create visuals that break new ground.
• Social Media Videos & Ads: Create attention-grabbing content that connects with our online community and showcases Mugafi’s offerings.
• Interviews & Events: Edit videos for our platform that highlight key moments from our events, interviews and others.
• Tutorials & Character Generation Videos: Produce product related engaging, informative content for our users and partners.

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience: Proven experience of 3 years in video creation and editing.
• Creative & Efficient Mindset: A passion for pushing creative boundaries while leveraging AI tools to streamline workflows and elevate productivity.
• Video Editing Mastery: Advanced skills in video editing software, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other AI-powered tools.
• Collaborative Approach: Strong ability to work closely with our writers and marketing teams, ensuring every project aligns with creative and strategic goals.
• Creative & strategic thinking: Understanding of how to craft videos that captivate a range of audiences, from social media followers to production houses.

• Providing technology leadership, vision, and passion to the product team.
• Working closely with the product management team and engineering team to transform customer needs into product engineering architecture and initiatives.
• Responsible for defining and implementing solid product engineering best practices and processes to guarantee results for product delivery.
• Take ownership and drive technology initiatives in the organization.
• Manage the product architecture design and reviews, review platform test automation, and DevOps Practises.
• Recruiting and mentoring a team of world-class developers.
• Provide the Delivery and Support teams with technical advice and support.

• Should have a strong technical background in product development and the complete software development life cycle.
• Coding skills are mandatory and we’re looking for someone who is technology agnostic and can jump in where needed. Our current tech stack scales across various technologies and platforms: JAVA, Ionic/Angular, IOS, Android, PHP and Python among others.

• Flexible, adaptable to the challenging pace of identifying and adopting new technologies.
• Have a strong sense of ownership and motivation to make our product successful.

• Result-oriented with a strong sense of drive and driven technology initiatives in previous jobs.

• Must have experience in building teams, identifying and mentoring talent, and working on architecting and building large-scale products.
• Must have an excellent understanding of the current web and mobile app technology landscape.
• The ideal candidate should have 12+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 8-10 years in product development. 
• Last position as an technical owner of a product engineering team with at least 15 people.
• A Bachelor’s degree or better, preferably in Computer Engineering, from a reputed college/university.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Job Description for Project Head for IT

• Provide technical vision and strategy for the team.
• Assess issues regarding Information Systems and create manageable solutions
• Own technical architecture for the application and infrastructure for the product
• Discover and help implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
• Develop a company's strategy around technology and product to ensure alignment with its business goals.
• Strategic Direction for identifying and implementing new technologies
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance, data protection and security processes
• Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
• Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Ensuring that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services.
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements.
• Managing technology budgets and time frames.
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments.
• Lead the team on design and execution of the engineering roadmap with a focus on engineering excellence in all aspects of the execution.
• Establish repeatable processes and methods that ensure a high level of productivity, quality, and reliability.

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as a Project Head or similar leadership role with 5+ years of experience in a technology leadership role
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field; MS/MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.
• Must have hands-on experience in Java, Front end technologies like Bootstrap, jQuery, Angular, AWS, Modular software development, multi-tenant architecture and highly scalable systems and Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux & Windows)
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy
• Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
• Excellent communication  and team management skills
• Leadership and organizational abilities
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving aptitude
• Experience in architecture, developing, deploying, and operating large scale, highly available, SaaS applications and services in private or public cloud.

Reporting to the founder, you will be expected to develop, deploy and oversee the execution of the tech strategy, product road-map and operations to ensure alignment with our businesses goals as we grow and scale. You will play a key part in the organisation's success, taking the current MVP and developing it further to move the company through to early stage funding and into profit.

Quesst's is built using React.js [Frontend], Node.js [Backend], PostgreSQL [DB], Amazon EC2 [Application Hosting], Amazon S3 [Media Storage Service], and Amazon SES [Email Sending Service]. You will be responsible for implementing full-stack features and collaborate with other team members to plan each sprint. You’ll be working across the entire system architecture and be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining restful APIs, micro-services and databases.