Technical Lead

3 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Peach Payments Full time

**Why we’re hiring for this role**:
As a Technical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in driving your pod's success by delivering high-value solutions through expert technical guidance and advocacy for engineering excellence. You will be instrumental in aligning the pod’s outputs with the overarching technical vision and strategy of the engineering department. Your responsibilities will encompass balancing technical execution with coaching and mentorship, ensuring system uptime and scalability, and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. Join us in shaping the future of our engineering initiatives

**How you’ll be making a difference**:
As the Tech Lead, you will oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of API solutions that facilitate seamless connectivity with third-party services. Your pod will focus on ensuring robust integration processes, managing data flow, and maintaining system reliability while addressing technical trade-offs.

**You will also be**:

- Collaborating with the pod to identify and fix technical issues, and to identify and earmark gaps in required skills in the team.
- Collaborating and working closely with cross-functional teams and third-party partners to align on project goals.
- Assisting in the hiring and training of individual contributors.
- Is a part of the Full software development life cycle and all its components with special emphasis on supervising system modifications
- Assists in auditing internal teams(Best Practice, Standards, Security and Compliance)
- Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges.
- Working with other technical leads on keeping systems up to date to minimize technical risk.
- Working with the team to set end year goals.
- Be the first point of call for systems within their domain.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Motivating staff and creating an inclusive space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Mentoring other engineers from graduates to the senior engineers within the larger engineering team.
- Working alongside the Engineering managers and Product managers in resourcing the team for work coming up on the roadmap
- Working on keeping the team accountable with estimated deliverable

**We're looking for someone who has**:

- At least 2 years experience as a Technical Lead
- At least 6 years experience programming in either backend or fullstack technologies such as Python, Node.js, Typescript or React
- Strong experience in designing, developing, and managing payment integration solutions with a strong understanding of payment gateways and processors
- Strong experience with AWS Infrastructure, specifically AWS Lambda
- Databases / SQL (MySQL / Postgres / MongoDB)
- Strong experience with best practices and a sound understanding of what makes valuable codebases.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
- Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills

**Our Current Peach Tech Stack**:

- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Backend: Python, NodeJS, PHP (CakePHP)
- Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Infra: AWS Lambda, Serverless, S3, EC2, API Gateway
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman
- Automation: Gitlab pipelines, CI/CD, Terraform

**Things we take seriously at Peach**
- Open and empathetic communication across the team and company. We value each other’s thought processes and have an open forum to collaborate cross-domain
- You say what you do and do what you say. We’re all accountable to each other and our customers, we set expectations and meet them
- Ownership of the work that we do. We don’t push tickets through, we thoughtfully problem solve pain points for our customers before, during and after code development
- We document our approach to scale what we do, soliciting input from the team and ensuring no team member is left behind
- We are continuously learning to build mastery and become domain experts at a worldwide level
- We measure outcomes not outputs

**What do people say about working here?**

We have a diverse, community-orientated team where failure is allowed. We fail fast but aim to succeed even quicker as we’re committed to enabling entrepreneurs.

**We are a Hybrid Team**

This means that our teams predominantly work out of the office. We expect you to have a home or other office set-up, with reliable internet access. Team members have the option of going to a work space or office closest to them, where this allows. We may, from time to time, request team members to come to the office or travel to a location out of your area for complete team Me

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