Team Lead - Contract

• UK-based financial services company

• 2 days/week in office (Century City, Cape Town)

This role is central to delivering high-quality outcomes through hands-on technical leadership, strong decision-making, and practical delivery experience. Our client has many corporate websites (Hiring/Investor relations, etc.) that run on a CMS called Optimizely. This project is about consolidating these sites where possible (presenting viable options and validation as outputs from the discovery phase), and then implementing a rebrand (new designs and a design system already exist) across the remaining websites in the production phase.

• Web frontend and backend technologies (e.g. Typescript, React, Node.JS, Rust, Go, etc.)

• Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)

• System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS…)

• Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulimi)

• CI/CD pipelines (e.g Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)

• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing

• Understanding design and technical trade-offs, optimising for lean product development and end-user value

• Designing an agile release engineering strategy that delivers value incrementally and continuously

• Supporting a highly-available live production system, responding to alerts, diagnosing problems using logs and observability tooling, triaging and resolving incidents

• Working with lean and agile practices (e.g. Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

• Collaborating in cross-functional teams

• Coaching and line managing software engineers