Lead Software Engineer hybrid role based in Cape Town

SUMMARY:
Lead Software Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Job Description:

A cutting-edge technology company currently undertaking digital transformation is looking for a talented Lead Software Engineer, you’ll be required to effectively lead and execute the Development portfolio and related activities. This is a key role for the business that requires an entrepreneurial individual who can direct as well as do the work, and who will gain much satisfaction from solving a wide variety of challenging problems and playing a pivotal role within a small and focused development management team.

Primary Duties

• Management of a Software Development team, including recruitment, appraisals, and other related management functions
• Attend project kick-off meetings with clients and ensuring all projects are project managed, tracked, and delivered upon to customer expectations and within required timelines.
• Work together with product owners, business analysts and technical leads to deliver high quality software product.
• Taking part in Scrum rituals such as stand-ups, planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives
• Taking part in team activities such as collaborative-development and code-reviews
• Taking part in cross-team activities such as knowledge-sharing and documentation
• Helps to achieve Sprint goals.
• Solves impediments.
• Provide guidance to Product Owners and Business Analysts to assist execution of their respective Agile Projects
• Provide coaching support during regular Agile/Scrum training efforts.
• Educate, reinforce, and coach team members and stakeholders in all facets of Agile/ Scrum
• Ensure a proper power balance between Product Owner and Software Development Team
• Works with Product Owners
• Strives to develop a Team into a High-Performance Team

• Strong leadership and people management competencies
• Leadership experience supporting the delivery of business value.
• At least 6 years hands-on development experience.
• Proficient in HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong experience with modern front-end frameworks like Reactjs/Nextjs.
• Proven experience in working with Azure or AWS.
• Expertise in responsive design, cross-browser compatibility and web performance.
• Experience with front-end build tools such as Webpack/Gulp.
• Familiarity with CSS preprocessors like SASS/LESS.
• Computer Science related degree, diploma, or similar qualification.
• Solid Understanding of C# and .NET.
• Agile / Scrum experience.

Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:

• Message Queues.
• NoSQL.
• Continuous Integration.
• Experience with Content Management Systems such as Umbraco.
• Experience with infrastructure as code e.g. Terraform/Pulumi.