Polyglot Tech Lead

We’re more than a digital consultancy — we’re a team of thinkers, creators, and builders dedicated to solving complex problems for some of the world’s most impactful brands. We use technology to deliver meaningful change, fast.

We're looking for a tech lead with experience in JavaScript/ Typescript to join our elite team — someone who’s as passionate about people and leadership as they are about code.

You love solving complex problems, and customer value is your north star. You are comfortable consulting with technology stakeholders outside of your team. You are a technology polyglot, and an evangelist for agile ways of working!

Requirements:

• Web frontend and backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, React, Node.JS, Rust, Go,)
• Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQR)
• Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulimi)
• CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing
• Understanding design and technical trade-off s, optimising for lean product development and end-user value
• Designing an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally and continuously
• Supporting a highly available live production system, responding to alerts, diagnosing problems using logs and observability tooling, triaging and resolving incidents
• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• Collaborating in cross-functional teams
• Coaching and line managing software engineers
• Design, build, debug and help contribute to evolving cloud-based architectures following Everything-as-Code principles
• Negotiate SLAs and SLOs with the business and supporting teams
• Help shaping and resourcing technical teams

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team engineer as part of a cross functional delivery team
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Compare among different technical and design approaches, choosing the right technology for the job
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Start or continue your journey as a line-manager
• Coach & support peers
• Provide support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)

Reference Number for this position is GZ60464 which is a permanent position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R1400k per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on az.oc.egrem-e@zhtrag or call him on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 23 Jun 10:53, Closing date 22 Aug