Technical Lead/head of Engineering

23 hours ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Black Pen Recruitment Full time

**Technical Lead/Head of Engineering (FinTech/SaaS/InsurTech)**

**Our Client**

Our client is a leading provider of a powerful SaaS platform that organises and accelerates businesses offering insurance solutions with Headquarters based in** Cape Town**. This tech business is moving ahead in a positive trajectory which is certainly why it is backed by several top-ranking/highly recognised global FinTech investors.

**Job Type**:Remote | Full-time

**Requirements**:

- 3-5 years managing development and support teams
- At least 5 years programming experience
- 3-5 years of agile delivery experience
- Exposure to our tech stack, and a senior Python Programmer, with at least 2 years of Django experience, and Rest Framework and Angular (if not Django, then 2 years Ruby on Rails)
- Experience of software design and development
- Extensive hands-on experience with software delivery, agile ways of working and project management
- Project management experience
- Proven experience leading teams
- Ability to mentor team members and build environments of knowledge sharing
- Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS
- Experience in a similar industry is a plus
- Scrum Master qualified is a plus

**Preferred**
- Coding background, Agile, exposure to our tech, 5 years dev exp
- Experience with Python / Django + Django Rest Framework
- Experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI
- Previous experience with designing systems from the group up, and taking software through its full lifecycle / Architect
- Experience with JWT and other Auth methods
- Understanding Angular 2+
- AWS Certifications / knowledge deep experience

**Responsibilities**
- Lead and manage a team of developers, working closely with senior team members to build the connection between technical excellence and effective ways of working
- Technical recruitment, motivating and performance managing the team
- Ensuring the personal development needs of each team member is identified and forms part of a dynamic plan to grow and mature the technical and interpersonal skills of the team
- Drive the strategic outcome of our products & services taking into account, and balancing, emergent and legacy technologies
- Ensuring a sound strategy is in place for both product and bespoke code base platform definition and implementation
- Devise and execute a tactical plan which can be collaboratively carried out by the team - to implement improvements to our products, services, processes and knowledge sharing within the team
- Facilitate the smooth delivery of all projects, enhancements and support requests
- Facilitate technology and way of working decisions throughout team, working closely with senior team members to ensure standardisation of system architecture, reusable code base development, versions of software tools, best practice, source control and deployment processes
- Demonstrable coding ability: role is 60% programming and 40% management
- Ensure the skills within the team are kept up to date with the latest software development technologies, methodologies and practices
- Ensure consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, security, documentation, coding and testing
- Build a culture of consistent and deliberate improvement to ensure reusability, efficiency and growing high standards of delivery within the team
- Ensure high standards of quality and stability are consistently maintained

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Blackpen Recruitment** is a global recruitment agency that targets European, African and American Markets with headquarters based in **Malta** and **Cape Town**. Blackpen specialises in FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Startup and iGaming Recruitment.

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