Platform Engineering Team Lead

2 months ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Electrum Payments Full time
About Electrum Payments

Electrum Payments is a leading B2B technology company that partners with prominent South African household names to provide innovative payment and digital services solutions. Our mission is to make a tangible impact on the lives of millions of South Africans every day.

Job Summary

We are seeking an exceptional Platform Engineering Team Lead to join our team. As a key member of our engineering organization, you will be responsible for leading a team of platform engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables, driving the success of internal-facing projects, and fostering a collaborative and productive team culture.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Expertise

  • Software development: Contribute to the development of the Electrum Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and lead by example.
  • Solution architecture: Design and review system architectures with cross-engineering impact.
  • Deployment management: Build the platform to run cloud-native applications, backed by AWS, in EKS Kubernetes Clusters.

Software Delivery

  • Project management: Drive the definition, prioritization, and execution of platform initiatives.
  • Requirements gathering: Work with development teams to capture requirements.
  • Software development methodologies: Ensure projects are delivered on time and with high quality.

Team Leadership

  • Team management: Set clear goals and objectives for team members and monitor their progress.
  • Growing team members: Cultivate and support the professional and personal growth of every team member.
  • Team commitment and purpose: Create a shared sense of purpose among the team.
  • Organizational savvy: Understand the vision and strategy of Electrum Payments and play an influential role in ensuring Electrum's goals are achieved.
  • Recruiting: Recognize talent gaps in their teams and actively recruit to fill them.

Performance Management

  • One-on-ones: Conduct regular one-on-ones with team members and manage their performance and career development.
  • Performance reviews: Conduct performance evaluations of team members.

Tooling / Stack

  • Kubernetes & Containerization: Use Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm, and CI/CD to build, deploy, and manage containerized workloads.
  • Monitoring and Logging: Use tooling such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, and ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.
  • Source Control & CI/CD: Use GitHub and GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD.
  • Operating Systems: Use Ansible and shell scripting to configure and manage Unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
  • Building, Collaboration, and Communicating the IDP: Strong communication skills within a team environment with the ability to effectively document processes and mentor engineers on best practices and platform use.
  • A Grasp of Backend Development: Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend services using Java, and experience in writing scripts to solve ad-hoc problems.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: An intermediate understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g., the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
  • Infrastructure as Code (AWS & Terraform): Experience using the AWS CDK and Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.
  • Architecture and Design Patterns: Familiarity with common design patterns and architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.
  • Computer Networking: Knowledge/experience of core networking concepts, i.e., configuring computer networking policies, IP allocations, routing, DNS, preferably with experience with AWS networking, i.e., VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, VPC PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, Load Balancing, etc.
  • Database Management: Expertise in designing, optimizing, and maintaining relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), including experience with event pipelining, i.e., using Apache Kafka.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 2-3 years of experience leading a software development team.
  • 2+ years of experience working as a developer in a software development team.
  • 2+ years of experience deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.
  • 2+ years of experience in designing and operating public cloud environments.
  • Experience in building/running Java or C# applications.

Beneficial Experience

  • Any certifications you recommend for a platform engineer?
  • Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  • Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.
  • An understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g., the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

What We Offer

We have created a high-performance culture where you can expect:

  • Career growth: Delivering world-class financial services software products in a fast-paced company is not easy, and it takes an insane amount of effort. But in return for your effort, you'll get hands-on experience working on products that are used by millions of people, and a high-quality work experience that will accelerate your career faster than anywhere else.
  • Transparency: We openly discuss strategy, finances, salaries, and other major decisions.
  • Autonomy: We know you'll be able to make good decisions if you have good information, and we trust you.
  • Shared Vision: You'll be able to shape a vision you can believe in - on how to build the future of financial services.
  • Work-life balance: You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a hike or coffee shop with a view, but you also know when your team needs help to bring that strategic deliverable home. At Electrum Payments, you will be expected to know when you deserve that time out, and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done.

Our Culture

We have created a safe, transparent environment where:

  • We know mistakes happen, and that's okay. We even have a three-step approach to dealing with them:
  1. Tell everyone about it
  2. Fix the mistake
  3. Tell everyone about the solution
  • You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures
  • We talk openly about salaries and bonuses. At Electrum Payments, we believe it's evident why some people earn more and others a bit less. It's like being on a sports team where salaries are widely known.

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