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Engineering Lead

Citiq Prepaid |Posted 7 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:Engineering lead
Other roles:Engineering manager, Software architect
Experience in role:10+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    Go
    Python
    Google Cloud
Nice-to-have skills:
    Agile
    Azure
    Google Kubernetes Engine

Location and salary

Remote policy:In-office
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 Citiq Prepaid, a leading South African utility company that's revolutionizing prepaid electricity and water sub-metering services for over 800,000 customers nationwide. We're a technology-driven organization operating at the intersection of utility services and fintech, delivering reliable and scalable solutions that make a real difference in people's lives. As our Engineering Lead, you'll guide and mentor a talented team of 6 developers while driving technical excellence and architectural decisions across our product portfolio. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll balance strategic technical planning with day-to-day development activities, working in close partnership with our Product Management team to deliver customer-centric solutions. You'll be based on-site in Cape Town, at the heart of our innovative operations. We're looking for an experienced technical leader with 10+ years of professional software engineering experience and 3-5+ years in technical leadership roles. Your expertise in operating production systems in the cloud, designing distributed systems, and working within Agile/Scrum/Kanban frameworks will be essential. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required, and certifications in GCP or Kubernetes are a definite plus. If you're passionate about leading teams, shaping technical strategy, and building scalable solutions that impact hundreds of thousands of customers, we'd love to hear from you.

About Citiq Prepaid

51-200 employees

Citiq Prepaid is South Africa’s largest private prepaid sub-meter and vending system provider. We supply landlords across South Africa with a prepaid electricity and water payment solution for their tenants.

We are constantly innovating - we have developed all our systems in-house to provide a national vending footprint for tenants as well as enabling clients (landlords, property owners, developers and managing agents as well as tenants) to access detailed reports to track and manage utility consumption.

We are proud of our in-house software development team that builds solutions that rapidly and directly respond to market needs. For us software development is a key enabler for relevance and efficiency in this space.

We are a small team of dedicated developers, working on projects based on market and company requirements.

Perks at Citiq Prepaid

Fantastic Team
Massive range of scope: Front-end, Back-end, DevOps, Smart Prepaid Meters, etc
Centrally located in vibey Green Point
Cape Town based, great Mountain View
Sit-stand Desks
Flexible Working Hours
No Dress Code
No crummy old legacy systems

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
Redis
Redis
Go
Go
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
nginx
nginx
TypeScript
TypeScript
Angular
Angular
Flutter
Flutter

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
GitHub
GitHub
Pingdom
Pingdom
Git
Git
TeamCity
TeamCity
Prometheus
Prometheus
Sentry
Sentry
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
VS Code
VS Code

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack

Office Photos

our offices :-)
another angle on the office...
some of our current projects
view across Green Point on a cloudy day

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