Technical Lead

Join a proudly South African fintech innovator, leading the charge in creating seamless, secure, and rewarding payment experiences. personal, effortless, and transformative for both customers and merchants.

Their team is a passionate team of engineers, visionaries, and tech enthusiasts who thrive on solving complex problems, pushing boundaries, and building scalable solutions that matter. If you’re a tech-savvy leader ready to make an impact in the fast-evolving payments industry, this is your opportunity.

The are looking for an experienced Software Engineer Team Lead (C#) to guide and grow one of their high-performing engineering teams. You’ll lead by example — combining technical excellence with people leadership to deliver world-class payment solutions at scale.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you’ll code, architect, and mentor while ensuring the team delivers high-quality, reliable software — on time and on target.

 What you need to have to land and interview:

Experience

• 5–8 years’ professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years in a senior or team lead role.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale systems in production.
• Strong background in the fintech/payments domain (essential).
• Experience mentoring and growing engineering talent.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent work experience.

Technical skills

• Languages: C#, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Web: HTML, CSS.
• APIs: Designing and maintaining scalable, secure RESTful APIs.
• Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redis.
• Cloud: Advanced AWS expertise (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ELB).
• Tools: Git, Docker, Postman, RabbitMQ.
• Architecture: Microservices, serverless design, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps best practices.
• Bonus: Exposure to Golang or Node.js.

Reference number for this position is CL60765 which is a hybrid position offering a cost to company salary of up to R 1.32mil per annum depending on your experience and ability. Contact Candace on az.oc.egrem-e@lecadnac or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 03 Nov 22:43, Closing date 2 Jan