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Software Engineer Team Lead

Zapper|Posted 10 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Engineering lead
Other roles:DevOps engineer, Software architect
Experience in role:5+ years
Must-have skills:
    C#
    SQL
    AWS
Nice-to-have skills:
    Node.js
    Go

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:Cape Town, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder or permanent resident
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Join Zapper, a pioneering South African fintech company, as a Software Engineer Team Lead. We're seeking an experienced professional with 5-8 years in software engineering, including 3 years in a senior or team lead role. You'll guide one of our engineering teams, blending technical leadership with people and delivery management.

In this role, you'll drive team output, lead agile processes, mentor engineers, and make key technical decisions. We're looking for someone with strong expertise in C# , SQL, and AWS, who can thrive in our fast-paced environment and tackle complex challenges. You'll be instrumental in upholding our high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning.

At Zapper, we're passionate about creating innovative payment solutions. You'll be part of a collaborative team of developers, engineers, and tech enthusiasts who are pushing the boundaries of fintech. We offer a dynamic work environment where your leadership skills and technical expertise will directly impact the future of payments. Join us in making payments personal and rewarding for customers and merchants alike.

About Zapper

51-200 employees

Zapper is a homegrown South African fintech company that makes payments personal and rewarding for customers and merchants.

We are a passionate and collaborative team of developers, engineers, designers, visionaries, techies, geeks and nerds. We build products that make paying for things, easier and more rewarding; and taking payments simpler and more insightful.

We have a suite of low cost, deeply integrated payment and loyalty solutions for any industry, including restaurants and hospitality, fuel and convenience, parking and retail, e-commerce and more. Apart from our own popular Zapper branded apps and solutions, we also offer a robust and versatile suite of developer APIs and SDKs for partners to white-label Zapper services seamlessly within their own branded apps and systems.

Founded in 2011 with the vision to empower merchants to grow their businesses through data-driven insights. Today we continue that vision with a focus on growing our platform, scaling our footprint and expanding our strategic partner networks, and to ultimately replace outdated card-based payment and loyalty systems.

Perks at Zapper

An annual increase
Flexible Leave Policy
Group Life Cover
Study assistance
Crèche and pre - school allowance
Quarterly social events
Free Parking on the premises
Relocation benefit
Awesome coffee
Developer - minded dress code
In-office lunch voucher
Remote working
Employee Assistance Wellness Programme

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Objective-C
Objective-C
Javascript
Javascript
Node.js
Node.js
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Swift
Swift
React
React
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
memcached
memcached
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Go
Go
C#
C#
nginx
nginx
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
Kotlin
Kotlin
Kafka
Kafka
TypeScript
TypeScript
Kibana
Kibana
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Lambda
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services
.NET Core
.NET Core

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft Sharepoint
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams

dev ops

Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Gradle
Gradle
Android Studio
Android Studio
npm
npm
Xcode
Xcode
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps

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