POLYGLOT Tech Lead – CAPE TOWN – R1400k PA

Were more than a digital consultancy were a team of thinkers, creators, and builders dedicated to solving complex problems for some of the worlds 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 whos 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 :

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