Engineering Team Lead at Yoco

Job description

Are you a talented and driven software engineer who is passionate about customers, delivering high-quality products, creating robust solutions and can be both a technical champion and a mentor to a small team of like-minded individuals.

If so, then we are looking for you!

We’re a diverse and zealous team, committed to creating some of the world's leading finance technology products, while providing an unparalleled experience to our customers. If you're passionate about creating value for small business owners, have a love for all things tech or are looking for a new challenge then Yoco is looking for you.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Key Responsibilities:

• Being both a highly technical, hands-on and effective manager for a team of 4 - 6 engineers
• Writing code for our mobile and web applications using React, NodeJS, React Native and Redux (with some gentle sprinkles of Objective C and Java as required).
• Managing a team of software engineers, including task planning and code reviews.
• Supporting and leading others who are doing the same.
• Working with our product management, design and UX minds to ensure that we deliver continuous value to our growing base of customers.
• Doing the hard and complicated stuff, and some how making it simple.
• Teaching the members of your pod, and the rest of the team, how to do the same both by example and by knowledge sharing.
• Building APIs and services on our back end using Scala and PostgreSQL.
• You will help decide and plan which features we will build, and how they are architected and implemented.
• Build features and products that are easy to use and help our customers grow their businesses.
• You will work closely with your team including other software engineers, product champions, designers and other members of the broader Yoco team.
• Own the release and QA cycles of your code and your team's code

IDEAL CANDIDATE | WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

Who you are:

• You are happy writing both back end code and doing some front end work on Web and Mobile applications.
• Picking up your hand and contributing to the broader product discussion is exciting rather than scary for you
• You can take a feature or product all the way from conception to release.
• You can work with and guide junior developers to help you deliver solutions.
• You enjoy using and are not afraid to learn new and exciting technologies.
• You are excellent at solving complicated problems, understanding real world issues and delivering high quality software.
• You can deliver stable yet flexible software that allows us to iterate quickly to deliver features.
• You build re-usable solutions that others can use to avoid re-inventing the wheel every time.

Key requirements to perform responsibilities:

• 6+ years as a professional Software Engineer
• Experience with both back-end and front-end development
• BSc Computer Science or equivalent is highly encouraged
• SQL database experience
• A clear and demonstrated passion for software engineering
• Demonstrated ability to recruit and manage technical teams, including performance management
• Proven ability to operate autonomously

Bonus points:

• Experience with JavaScript, React or React-Native.
• Experience in Java, Scala, Kotlin or any other JVM language
• Knowledge of multiple programming languages
• Mobile development experience
• Experience leading teams, designing and architecting products, working with customers all a plus.

EXPECTATIONS OF YOCO EMPLOYEES

• Dealing with People
• Communicating & influencing: Strong communication skills across various mediums, building collaborative relationships internally and externally.
• Dealing with Business
• Preventing & solving problems: Diagnostic information gathering and research, analytical thinking, application of conceptual thinking to problem-solving.
• Achieving results: Proactive/initiative, customer orientated, fostering innovation, continuous improvement mindset, appreciation of results, business acumen, thoroughness and detail orientated
• Dealing with Self-management
• Self-confidence, personal credibility, flexibility, adaptability and strong sense of personal accountability

VALUE PROPOSITION | WHAT WILL YOU BE GETTING?

As part of the Yoco team, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in the growth of the mobile Point of Sale opportunity in South Africa.

To support this we have built a role-based organisation; where every individual is given the space to focus and develop his or her innate strengths. Everyone here has the opportunity to lead a project and become a specialist, enabling flexibility, collaboration and accountability at all levels.

We offer a competitive package for an early stage venture; with flexible working hours and time off when you need it. In addition to this, you will have the opportunity to participate in our Equity Incentive scheme, which will be uncapped based on performance.