Engineering Lead
Citiq Prepaid |Posted 7 days ago
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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.
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About Citiq Prepaid
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.
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utilities

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