Technical Team Lead
d6 group|Posted 10 days ago
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We're d6, a leading EdTech platform in South Africa, and we're seeking a Technical Team Lead to spearhead the transformation of our school administration system. You'll lead the modernization of our legacy platform into a modular, scalable Laravel-based powerhouse, while supporting hundreds of schools that rely on us daily.
In this role, you'll lead our modernization roadmap, mentor and grow a capable dev team, and take ownership of technical decisions and quality benchmarks. You'll collaborate with Product to translate business needs into clean, maintainable code, champion DevOps and CI/CD practices, and shape our approach to practical AI implementation.
We're looking for someone with 10+ years in software engineering and 4+ years in a leadership role. You should have expert backend skills (preferably in Laravel), experience running production-grade SaaS platforms, and a solid grounding in clean architecture and modern dev practices. Join us to modernize a product that matters, supporting 3,500+ schools and 3 million+ parents and children. We offer a remote-friendly, agile-minded environment where you'll help shape the architectural direction and work with a committed team ready to scale and take on bigger markets.
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About d6 group
Who We Are
At d6 we are all about increasing the effectiveness of schools. We are passionate about improving the administrative and communication processes within schools, to increase their operational effectiveness and allow them to put their energy where it is needed most - in the classrooms!
What We Do
We develop software products to help the schools in their daily operations. Our products are developed on a pretty typical LAMP stack with all of the usual supporting technologies, but we do have a pretty cool configuration to provide scalability and resilience, including memcache, load balancing, replication and fail-over to make sure we are rock solid.
Our primary focus is on the following:
- A school administration system which provides all of the administrative functions that come with managing a school - capturing family and staff information, configuring the curriculum, recording marks, attendance & discipline, calculating progression & retention, generating report cards and other reporting, managing finances and communication. This is a fully integrated product with all of the various modules interacting to provide a seamless, holistic solution for the school.
- A stand-alone communication system which allows the schools to communicate directly with their parents via mobile and desktop clients.
We try to keep things as agile as possible, and work on a continuous release process to make sure we deliver the most value possible in the shortest time. We are always trying to improve what we do and how we do it, and the culture is inclusive - we are in this together and we should all be part of creating the solution and enjoying the journey.
Our Interview Process
The first step is a short interview so that we can get more familiar with one another. This will help to ensure that the company is a good fit for you and your long term goals. If we have a mutually fuzzy feeling about each other then we can move on to the next round.
The next round is a small developer challenge. The questions you can expect are based on the various technologies that we make use of in our development environment, and provides us an opportunity to see how you problem-solve, and what level of expertise you possess in the various technologies. This also affords you the opportunity to experience a bit more of our environment and our team dynamics.
The next round will be the final interview whereafter we will make you an offer based on the outcome of the meeting. We are excited to have a new member on our team and are looking forward to creating great solutions together!
Perks at d6 group
Tech Stack
application and data
utilities
business tool
dev ops
