Job Description

Job Summary One of South Africa's leading mobile payment and loyalty platforms is on the hunt for a Software Engineer Team Lead to head up their Cape Town development team and drive the next wave of innovation in digital payments. They are revolutionising the way people pay, earn, and interact through seamless mobile payment and loyalty solutions.
As a Software Engineer Team Lead, you will be the driving force behind a high-performing team of developers, ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and efficient software solutions
If you are passionate about technology and leadership, and ready to build the next generation of payment solutions, we would love to hear from you! APPLY NOW!!!
This is what you need to land an interview:

• 5-8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role with proven team leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, and growing engineers.
• Proven experience leading and delivering large-scale systems in production.
• Fintech or payments domain experience is essential.
• Languages: Strong technical foundation in C#, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Web: HTML and CSS.
• APIs & Integration: Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable APIs.
• Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redis.
• Cloud: Strong AWS experience (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ELB).
• Tools & Frameworks: Git, Docker, Postman, RabbitMQ.
• Architectural Knowledge: Expert level knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, serverless, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices.
• Technical judgement: Ability to evaluate trade-off and guide decisions that balance ideal solutions with delivery needs.

Qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant work experience

Reference Number for this position is MAT60765 which is a permanent position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of up to R1.3m per annum depending on experience and ability. Contact Mavis on or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.
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