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Senior Technical Lead - 12 months contract R0 per hour

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

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Technical leadership, solution architecture, software engineering governance, cross-platform mobile development (iOS/Android), web development (React.js/TypeScript/Node.js), backend API strategy (Express.js/GraphQL/REST), cloud-native architecture (AWS), CI/CD implementation, performance optimisation, code review, mentoring

Preferred skills

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

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across web and mobile initiatives, lead solution architecture and technical design, drive best practices in scalability and resilience, guide development teams through architecture decisions, oversee delivery of enterprise applications, drive backend architecture and API strategy, lead cloud-native architecture and deployment strategies, conduct architecture and code reviews, mentor and coach engineering teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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