24 Oct
People Solved
Cape Town
Job Description :
A cutting-edge technology company currently undertaking digital transformation is looking for a talented Lead Software Engineer, youll 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 youve 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.
▶️ Lead Software Engineer hybrid role based in Cape Town
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