Senior Engineering Lead/Tech Lead
Job in
Cape Town, 7561, South Africa
Listed on 2026-09-23
Listing for:
Liquid Thought
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-23
Job specializations:
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Software Development
Software Architect, Senior Developer, Software Project Mgr/ Lead, Software Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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)
- 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
- Provide direction, mentoring, and coaching to junior and mid-level developers
- Be the technical authority within the team
- Own third-party integrations (clients, providers, wearables, partners)
- Ensure API consistency, data flow integrity, and integration scalability
- 8–12+ years software engineering experience
- Proven experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in a product-led
- 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
- Clear technical ownership and reduced delivery ambiguity
- Improved delivery predictability and code quality
- Reduced reliance on advisory intervention for day-to-day execution
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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