Senior Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

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Senior Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Job Openings Senior Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

About the job Senior Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

Role Purpose

The Senior Engineering Lead will provide hands-on technical leadership across the

core mobility and data platform. This role owns technical decision-making,

architecture integrity, and engineering execution, ensuring predictable delivery

aligned to the agreed customer journey and product roadmap.

This role is critical to stabilising delivery and providing the development team with clear

direction, standards, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

Own the technical architecture of the core mobility and data platform

Make day-to-day engineering decisions to unblock delivery

Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reusable across the ecosystem

Protect the integrity of the core product (no ad-hoc client builds)

Delivery & Execution

Lead the development teams execution across app, dashboard, integrations, and

data flows

Translate product requirements into clear technical plans

Oversee code quality, environments, releases, and technical debt

Work closely with outsourced partners to ensure standards and continuity

Team Leadership

Provide direction, mentoring, and coaching to junior and mid-level developers

Establish consistent engineering practices (code reviews, standards, SDLC

discipline)

Be the technical authority within the team

Integration & Ecosystem

Own third-party integrations (clients, providers, wearables, partners)

Ensure API consistency, data flow integrity, and integration scalability

Experience & Skills

8–12+ years software engineering experience

Proven experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in a product-led

environment

Strong backend engineering background (APIs, integrations, data flows)

Experience working with mobile applications and analytics platforms

Comfortable working with in/outsourced teams

Strong decision-making and communication skills

Health, mobility, logistics, or data-heavy platform experience

Cloud-native architecture experience

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

Clear technical ownership and reduced delivery ambiguity

Improved delivery predictability and code quality

Stabilised engineering practices

Reduced reliance on advisory intervention for day-to-day execution

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