Senior Staff Engineer

Cape Town, WC, ZA, South Africa

Job Description

CoachHub is on a mission to democratise coaching for all career levels worldwide. We need an amazing team to achieve this, so we're bringing together kind, smart and highly-skilled people from all corners of the globe.

If you'd like to shape the success story of a fast-growing, award-winning company and the leading global digital coaching platform - get in touch!



About the Role


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We're looking for

Senior Staff Engineers

to serve as

technical tribe leaders

, guiding architectural decisions across multiple squads while remaining technically engaged when needed. In this role, you'll join

Tribe Leadership

and play a central part in our transition to a scalable, resilient target architecture. You will also contribute to our

Technical Excellence Team

, a cross-tribe initiative focused on engineering standards, system design, and architectural strategy. This is a strategic, hands-on role where you will influence implementation at scale, support long-term architectural decisions, and help shape the technical direction of the organization.

Key Responsibilities


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Tribe-Level Technical Leadership


Act as the senior technical point of reference for your tribe. Shape architecture, align technical decisions across squads according to the company direction, and mentor Tech Leads and Staff Engineers.

Architecture & Design


Lead and review technical designs across domains such as foundational services, business logic, integrations, and 3rd-party systems. Ensure coherence with the broader technical vision.

Tribe Leadership & Collaboration


Partner with Engineering Managers, Delivery Leads, and Product stakeholders to influence roadmap direction, PRD-level technical constraints, and long-term planning.

Tech Excellence Team


Be an active member of this cross-tribe group focused on scaling technical quality, tooling, standards, and engineering culture.

Mentorship & Influence


Support the development of other senior engineers. Help scale leadership through coaching and technical guidance--without creating bottlenecks or silos.

System Design & Execution


Contribute directly when needed--particularly for complex or foundational systems--through design, prototyping, testing and implementation.

What We're Looking For


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Proven Technical Leadership


Experience driving architecture and engineering excellence across squads or tribes. You've influenced system-level decisions and collaborated beyond team boundaries.

Strong Architectural Skills


Depth in system design and architecture--particularly around distributed systems, service boundaries, domain modeling, and cloud-native systems. You're comfortable reviewing and driving high-impact designs.

Pragmatic and Hands-On


You stay close to implementation. You know when to code, when to review, and when to step back and coach others.

Organizational Influence


You challenge assumptions, refine direction, and help move the organization forward without relying on top-down mandates.

Cross-Functional Collaboration


Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. You can engage both technical and non-technical audiences effectively.

Technical Background


Significant experience in backend or full stack engineering. Experience operating in evolving or large-scale architectures is a strong plus.

About CoachHub




CoachHub is the global leader in digital and AI coaching that enables organizations to create personalized, measurable and scalable coaching programs for their entire workforce, regardless of department and seniority level. As the leading talent development platform, organizations who use CoachHub benefit from increased employee engagement, higher levels of productivity, improved job performance and greater retention.


Our scientific, holistic coaching approach has been formulated by our Innovation Lab, a collective of in-house learning experts, behavioral scientists and a dedicated Science Council of research leaders from around the world. Together, they leverage scientific evidence and platform insights to maximize business impact and drive innovation at CoachHub.


Alongside its development and implementation of AI coaching, CoachHub has a global pool of over 3,500 certified business coaches in 90 countries across six continents, with coaching sessions available in over 80 languages. Serving more than 1,000 clients worldwide, CoachHub's leading digital and AI coaching programs are based on proprietary scientific research, AI insights from renowned academics and development from its Innovation Lab.


CoachHub is backed by leading tech investors, including Sofina, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Molten Ventures, Speedinvest, HV Capital, Partech and HSBC Innovation Banking. CoachHub was certified as a carbon-neutral company and consistently measures, reduces, and implements strategies to minimize its environmental impact.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1495399
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, WC, ZA, South Africa
  • Education
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