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ENGINEERING MANAGER


Job Location:

Abuja - Nigeria

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 12 September 2026 (4 days ago)
Application Deadline: 10 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Who We Are
Seismic is a fast-growing business and technology consultant company founded in offer a custom-tailored white-glove engineering service fit for our clients because a digital transformation is more than just technology. With a successful track record in private and public sector consulting and a trusted partner for some of the industrys leading companies our global talent has helped many clients achieve their goals.

Our 3 Gs are:
Get Shit Done.
Get Over Shit.
Give a Shit.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and strengthen our engineering function while remaining deeply involved in technical execution. This role requires a leader who can combine strong engineering judgement with people leadership architectural thinking and hands-on development capability.

The Engineering Manager will be responsible for guiding engineering teams in designing building deploying and maintaining scalable digital products and platforms across Seismic Tech. You will work closely with product managers designers business stakeholders and engineers to translate complex requirements into reliable secure and high-performing technology solutions.

This is a hands-on engineering leadership role. While you will provide technical direction and manage engineering delivery you are expected to actively contribute to architecture decisions code reviews debugging system design technical problem-solving and engineering standards.

What You Will Do
Engineering Leadership & Architecture
  • Provide technical leadership across engineering teams and projects.
  • Drive architectural decisions and ensure solutions are scalable secure and maintainable.
  • Review technical designs and guide engineers in selecting appropriate approaches.
  • Establish engineering standards coding practices and development principles.
  • Provide the engineering judgement required for complex technical decisions.
Hands-on Engineering Contribution
  • Remain actively involved in software development debugging technical reviews and system improvement.
  • Review code and technical implementations to ensure quality and maintainability.
  • Support engineers in resolving complex technical challenges.
  • Participate in architecture discussions system design and technology evaluations.
  • Contribute directly to critical engineering initiatives where required.
Product Delivery & Collaboration
  • Work closely with product managers and business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
  • Support planning prioritisation estimation and delivery of engineering initiatives.
  • Ensure engineering teams deliver reliable products within agreed timelines.
  • Balance business objectives with technical quality and long-term sustainability.
Team Development & Mentorship
  • Lead mentor and develop engineering team members.
  • Build a culture of ownership accountability learning and technical excellence.
  • Conduct technical reviews and provide constructive feedback.
  • Support recruitment onboarding and growth of engineering talent.
Reliability Security & Performance
  • Ensure systems meet requirements for availability scalability and performance.
  • Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks and production issues.
  • Promote strong practices around testing security monitoring and documentation.
  • Improve engineering processes to increase efficiency and reliability.
Why This Is Interesting
  • Leadership opportunity within a fast-growing technology and consulting environment.
  • Direct ownership of engineering standards architecture and technical delivery.
  • Opportunity to build and scale high-impact digital solutions.
  • Work across modern technologies including AI-enabled systems cloud platforms and data-driven applications.
  • A role combining technical depth leadership and meaningful product impact.





Requirements
Who You Are
Qualifications
  • 7 years of software engineering experience with experience leading engineering teams.
  • Strong background in backend or full-stack software development.
  • Proven experience designing and delivering scalable production systems.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture system design and engineering best practices.
  • Experience working with cloud infrastructure such as AWS Azure or GCP.
  • Experience with modern software development workflows CI/CD testing and deployment practices.
  • Strong programming experience in languages such as Python JavaScript/TypeScript or similar technologies.
You Are Also
A Strong Technical Leader

You have deep engineering fundamentals and understand that great software requires strong architecture quality practices thoughtful design and continuous improvement.

A Hands-on Builder

You are comfortable reviewing code debugging complex issues contributing to technical solutions and working directly with engineering teams.

A Product-Minded Engineer

You understand that engineering exists to solve real problems. You can balance technical decisions with user needs business objectives and delivery priorities.

A Team Builder

You enjoy developing engineers creating strong engineering cultures and helping teams perform at their best.

Technical Environment

Our engineering environment includes:

  • Python
  • / TypeScript
  • React / Modern Frontend Frameworks
  • SQL / NoSQL Databases
  • REST APIs and Distributed Systems
  • Cloud Infrastructure (AWS Azure GCP)
  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • AI-enabled applications
  • Large Language Models (OpenAI Anthropic Open-source models)
  • Vector Databases and Retrieval Systems
  • Data Engineering and Analytics Platforms
Join Our Global Team

We invite you to join Seismic Tech and help shape the future of business technology consulting. As a diverse indigenous-owned global business we are committed to building exceptional teams delivering meaningful solutions and creating an environment where talented professionals can thrive.

Bring your technical leadership engineering excellence and passion for building impactful technology solutions to Seismic.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race colour religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability or veteran status.







Required Skills:

Minimum of 3 years of experience in AI/ML model development and deployment. Proficiency in Python (preferred) with experience in ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch). Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms neural networks and statistical modeling. Experience with data manipulation tools (e.g. Pandas NumPy) and SQL. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and ML Ops tools (e.g. MLflow Kubeflow). Solid understanding of software engineering practices including version control (Git) testing and CI/CD pipelines. Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders. Would be Nice-to-Have: Experience with natural language processing (NLP) computer vision or recommendation systems. Exposure to large language models (e.g. GPT BERT) and generative AI tools. Knowledge of model interpretability and fairness techniques. Published research or contributions to open-source ML projects.


Required Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Statistics Mathematics or a related field.