Software Engineer Team Lead (GoLang) at Salt South Africa

Skills you already have:

• Experience leading a team, with a focus on a very high quality output and team enablement
• Experience writing backend code and/or mobile applications – primarily using GoLang for backend services, and Flutter for mobile applications.
• Experience in developing distributed, high transactional and available systems
• In-depth knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms.
• Great problem-solving skills.
• A passion for observability and monitoring of the services you build.
• 5 years minimum of relevant work experience
• 2 years of experience minimum in a team lead position.
• BSc Computer Science or equivalent is encouraged (strong work experience can fill this gap)

This job is for you is you are:

• Genuinely passionate about technology and problem solving
• A team player who is always ready to support and collaborate
• A data driven decision maker with strong opinions and a bias for action
• A strong communicator who works well with others, and welcomes feedback
• A motivated leader who takes initiative and excels by taking ownership
• Experienced developing web oriented backend services and systems
• Knowledgeable about architectural patterns for systems and code
• Experienced with databases, caching, message queues, and similar systems