Technical Lead at Team Africa Ventures

Description

• Ensure the skills within the team are kept up to date with the latest software development technologies, methodologies and practices
• Ensure consistent standards and approaches towards technological advancement, security,
• documentation, coding and testing
• Build a culture of consistent and deliberate improvement to ensure reusability, efficiency and growing high standards of delivery within the team
• Ensure high standards of quality and stability are consistently maintained
• Communication and problem solving
• To use your experience to ensure all code is consistently reviewed and audited
• To assist in critical support issues where your experience is required to determine an appropriate resolution or triage action
• To ensure appropriate escalation and triage processes are in place and maintained to manage and and expedite the resolution of critical support issues
• To facilitate pro-active discussions with client delivery and account management teams, to build and grow a collaborative end-to-end delivery system
• To facilitate regular discussions regarding internal process and system improvements in order to ensure maximum efficiency across the company, ensuring possible technical solutions to problems are discussed and prioritised where necessary
• To facilitate and build cross team initiatives bringing products and services closer together

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree – preferred
• Technically strong
• At least 2 years of Django experience, and if not Django, then 2 years Ruby
• At least 5 years total programming experience
• At least 5 years total experience in Python programming
• Experience in a start-up space

Bonus

• Django ORM
• Full Stack
• Scrum Master Qualification
• Project Management Experience