C# Software Engineer Team Lead

A leading South African mobile payments and digital commerce company reshaping the way people pay and engage with businesses is on the lookout for a Software Engineer Team Lead to drive technical excellence and lead their high-performing development team. Their cutting-edge fintech solutions empowers merchants and consumers, making payments simple, secure, and rewarding.

This role blends technical leadership with people and delivery management

If you are ready to lead, code, and innovate in the fintech space, Apply now!!!!

Requirements:

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead role with proven team leadership responsibilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or relevant work experience
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, and growing engineers.
• Proven experience leading and delivering large-scale systems in production.
• Fintech or payments domain experience is essential.
• Languages: Strong technical foundation in C#, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript
• Web: HTML and CSS.
• APIs and integration: Proficiency in designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable APIs.
• Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redis.
• Cloud: Strong AWS experience (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, SQS, ELB).
• Tools and frameworks: Git, Docker, Postman, RabbitMQ.
• Architectural knowledge: Expert level knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, serverless, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices.
• Technical judgement: Ability to evaluate trade-off and guide decisions that balance ideal solutions with delivery needs.
• Strong understanding of software design principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Effective communicator across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Skilled in agile delivery, prioritisation, and managing competing demands.
• Conflict resolution and mediation skills.
• Strategic thinker able to align technical solutions with business goals.

Reference number for this position is MAT60765 which is a permanent position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of up to R1.4m per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Mavis on az.oc.egrem-e@msivam or call her on 011 463 3633 to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Posted on 03 Sep 15:05, Closing date 2 Nov