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Senior Technical Lead - 12 months contract

Johannesburg, Gauteng💼 Contract🗓 2026-05-29 → 2026-08-11

Core

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performing web and mobile application solutions for enterprise clients.

Role type

Senior Technical Lead (Web & Mobile)

Builds

Enterprise-grade web and mobile applications, backend services, and API ecosystems.

Domain

Enterprise software development, cloud infrastructure, and mobile platforms.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cross-platform web and mobile development leadership, solution architecture, software engineering governance, CI/CD implementation, AWS cloud services, native iOS (Swift/Objective-C), native Android (Kotlin/Java), React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, GraphQL, RESTful APIs, Nginx configuration, performance optimisation, observability, mentoring engineering teams.

Preferred skills

Financial services experience, scalable distributed systems, microservices architecture, security-first engineering, leading geographically distributed teams.

Technologies

AWS (EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3), Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, GraphQL, Nginx.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across web and mobile initiatives, lead solution architecture and technical design, drive best practices in scalability and maintainability, guide development teams through architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, champion secure coding practices, implement scalable system design principles, mentor and coach engineering teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities.

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