Technical Team Leader

SUMMARY:
Looking for a highly talented Technical/Team Lead to join this leading online retailer in Cape Town. This young, dynamic, hyper growth company is looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join them.

POSITION INFO:

• They offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

• They seek to employ Exceptional Minds, people who are:
• You need to be strong in both root cause analysis and driving to action – in other words, you need to be a thinker and a doer, and doing doesn’t happen only during work hours….. You need to be passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience. And, because we operate in a fast-growing, quick-moving environment, we’re looking for someone who is entrepreneurial, thrives under change, and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster. You will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts. In short, we need you to think like an owner of the business.
• Your specific responsibilities will include:
• This is a hands-on role: you should expect to spend at least 50% of your time writing code, and working with others on your team directly contributing to the production of code.  The other 50% of your time will be split between architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.

• Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute;
• Analytical, able to use data to make decisions.      
• Letting data decide but not consume;
• Competitive. Although innovation is important, GREAT requires a lot of work. This does not happen only in business hours.
• Curious. Always questioning the status quo;
• Not averse to risk;
• Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• Self directed, taking action based on own initiative;
• Collaborative.
• Thorough;
• User focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective;
• Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular.

• As the development lead you will lead a group of developers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
• You will need a strong understanding of large-scale full-stack platform development, have experience building Front-end, Backend and RESTful web applications.
• You will be from a development background and have a good understanding of architectural practices.
• You will be an advocate of Agile engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated.
• Successfully launch new products quickly as well as manage a large existing code base.
• This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on ambitious development roadmap.

• .Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or engineering
• Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on a very high quality output
• Experience mentoring and developing technical teams
• Experience working within an Agile and Devops team, and an advocate of that culture
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience developing Scala in a test-driven environment (and/or at least in one of the following - Java, C, C++)
• Solid Web and Front-end Development experience with PHP, Html and Javascript and related libraries (React, Angular, Backbone)
• Good SQL experience in a high-load environment
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures and algorithms 
• Experience in developing distributed, high transactional and available systems
• Experience mentoring and developing others technically

• Attributes required

• Post graduate degree preferred
• Experience with and an understanding of line management responsibility for a technical team
• Experience developing software for a highly-transactional retail online platform
• A thorough understanding of software engineering practises and best practises, including Agile software development, source code control systems and the use of software IDEs and development and testing tools.
• Experience with warehouse management or logistics systems 
• An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practises
• Experience working with GCP/AWS and/or other cloud platforms
• Experience with building Restful API web services

• The Environment

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

• We seek to Employ an Extraordinary Mind who:

• is respectful but forthright
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute?
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts  
• thinks like an owner of the business
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING

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