Software Technical Lead

Sea Point, Cape Town, South Africa | Posted on 18/04/2024

Established in 2001, RSAWEB is South Africa’s fastest growing internet service provider (ISP) with a focus on providing connectivity to home customers, and a wide array of technology solutions to businesses. We are obsessed about ensuring all our customers receive the best possible digital experience and exceptional customer service.

Thousands of customers have given RSAWEB a 5-star rating, with an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 on Google – the best-rated ISP in South Africa.

We are extremely proud of winning KFM’s Best of the Cape Awards: Best ISP in 2021 & 2022 and being one of the fastest streaming ISPs on Netflix and a consistently top rated ISP on MyBroadband.

These accolades are not for nothing, as we constantly strive to improve our products, services, and solutions to enhance each customer’s experience. Having invested heavily in infrastructure, RSAWEB has built a strong presence in South Africa with Data Centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Specialisation fields:

Cloud infrastructure

Mobile connectivity and data management

Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH)

Fibre-to-the-Business (FTTB) At RSAWEB, we are passionate about using our creativity, to provide innovative solutions and services, that allow our customers to succeed in all areas of life.

We believe that we are in the business of connecting customers and businesses with each other and a world of infinite possibility and opportunity, through technology.

Our mission transcends our values through every customer, every interaction, every connection, every day.

Our values:

Creativity

Humanity

Passion

Where will the successful candidate fit in?

We are on the hunt for a Technical Lead to join our Rockstar Software Development team. By providing technical and strategic support, the Technical Lead will play a critical role in the Software Development Life Cycle and outputs for major directives.

Proficiency or interest in these platforms are welcome.

PHP | Python | Ruby | Go | Django | Flask | RabbitMQ | VMware | EC2 | Lamda | Apache Mesos | React | Bootstrap | Foundation | Kubernetes | Docker | Swagger | MVC | Debian | Vagrant | Chef | Ansible | Git | Jira | Confluence | MySQL | GIS | GeoDjango | REST | Mobile App Development | Wordpress | Apache | Ngnix | HAProxy | Varnish

Job Requirements

Construct and support code across a wide array of projects

You will need some involvement (consulting) in almost all major directives.

Coordinate technical requirements between DevOps and 3rd Parties.

Provide support and strategic vision for technical development of systems.

Work closely with the product manager & solutions architect to develop technical designs.

Take a key role in the design and implementation of the development life cycle.

Analyze, code, review, implement and update existing systems.

Develop solutions for the company's current technology needs.

Assist developers in the removal of technical blockers and impediments.

Coaching/Mentoring of team members

Maintain technical documentation.

Define and maintain development standards.

Ensure system architecture maintains an acceptable security standard.

Any other reasonable tasks within the Development team

Requirements

A minimum of 5 years as a Software Developer

At least 2 years as a Software Technical Lead, or in a similar capacity.

Proficient in modern programming languages with a focus on Python and PHP

Proven ability to lead a Development Team with success.

Full software development life-cycle experience

A relatively grounded understanding of Automated Testing platforms, such as unit testing and behavior-driven development

Some knowledge of continuous integration or automated deployment, orchestration on the cloud with containerizations

A well-grounded knowledge of source control. Extra brownie points for GIT and GITflow

A grounded understanding of OOP, MVC, DDD, and other software development patterns

A solid foundation or sufficient exposure in working with MVC frameworks such as Rails, Cake, code-ignitor, Zend, Django

Experience in agile or other development methodologies

A grounded understanding of SOA (Micro Services) and Rest API

Grounded Experience in working with & building REST API’s

Experience with large scale business-grade software and heavily integrated systems

Articulate with Good interpersonal relationship skills

Ability to work with a diverse array of people with different values and concerns

Ability to work under pressure

An ability to acclimate to new systems quickly, and easily transition between problems

Medical Aid (Discovery)

Reduced Gap Cover Rates (Turnberry Premier)

Retirement Annuity Contribution (Allan Gray)

Medical Insurance (Momentum - Health4Me)

Discounted Internet Connectivity

Free Employee Wellness Programme (ICAS)

Team Buildings

Exposure to latest industry technologies and standards

Lastly, a work environment that rivals the very best!

If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of submitting your application, please consider your application as unsuccessful