Technical Lead

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa RareCruit Full time
We are seeking a Technical Lead who is hands-on with coding and architecture while also being an effective mentor and leader. You will play a critical role in guiding our development team, ensuring high-quality code, scalable architecture, and efficient processes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Technical Leadership: Lead a team of developers, ensuring best practices in software development, architecture, and deployment, especially on back-end of system
  • Hands-on Development: Write high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code when necessary, particularly for complex or high-impact features.
  • Architecture & Design: Define and oversee the system architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and efficient.
  • Mentorship & Team Development: Guide and mentor junior and mid-level developers, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
  • Code Review & Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews, enforce coding standards, and ensure software quality through testing strategies.
  • Agile Development: Participate in agile processes, including sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives. Provide suggestions to improve processes.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, product owners, scrummasters, ux designers, solution architects, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Tech Stack & Innovation: Stay up to date with new technologies, suggesting and implementing improvements where applicable
Required Skills & Experience:
  • 7+ years of expierence in software development, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.
  • Proficiency in PHP, NodeJS
  • Strong experience with SaaS architectures, microservices, and the AWS cloud platform.
  • Expertise in database design (SQL & NoSQL) and APE Development.
  • Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience leading code reviews, mentoring software developers, and setting and maintaining coding standards
  • Ability to balance technical leadership with hands-on coding
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast paced environment
  • Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Strong people management skills.
  • Experience with containerisation e.g. Docker
  • Knowledge of front-end frameworks( React, Vue.js, or Angular).
  • Prior experience in a SaaS environment

For more info on the role, please get in touch with Cameron St James :

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