A young, dynamic, hyper growth company is looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join their team. They offer a market related Total Remuneration Package, which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Job Description: The position reports to the Software Development Manager (eCommerce)

Your responsibilities will include:
We are looking for an experienced software development team lead to join a versatile and creative IT management team. As the development lead you will lead a group of developers and testers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
You will need a strong understanding of large-scale e-commerce platform development, have experience building backend services and api's.
You will have strong architectural and coding experience building complex systems.
You will be an advocate of Agile engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated.
Successfully launch new products quickly as well as manage a large existing code base. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on their ambitious development roadmap.
This is a hands-on role: you should expect to spend at least 50% of your time writing code, or working with others on your team directly contributing to the production of code. The other 50% of your time will be split between architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.

Qualifications:
Degree in Computer Science or engineering
Post graduate degree preferred

Skills and competencies:
-Experience in developing distributed, high transactional and available systems
-Excellent technical app architecture and coding experience
-Experience leading a team technically, with a focus on a very high quality output
-Experience mentoring and developing technical teams
-Experience working within an Agile and Devops team, and an advocate of that culture
-Excellent problem-solving skills
-Experience developing Python in a test-driven environment (and/or at least in one of the following - Java, C, C++)
-Good SQL and MySQL experience in a high-load environment
-Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
-A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design and data structures and algorithms
-Experience mentoring and developing others technically

Experience:
-Experience coding software for a highly-transactional platform
-Strong linux experience and working with production systems
-Experience with and an understanding of line management responsibility for a technical team
-A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including Agile software development, source code control systems and the use of software IDEs and development and testing tools.
-An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practices
-Experience working with no-SQL data stores like Mongo/Redis etc
-Experience with cloud implementations such as Google Cloud (or AWS, Azure) platforms
-Experience with building Micro services and Restful API web services