SUMMARY

Reporting to the Tribe Technical Lead, the role holder will have overall responsibility of technical delivery of Masoko features. The ideal candidate will collaborate with commercial teams and coordinate; product design, solutions architecture, frontend development, and backend development to deliver impactful features. The Technical lead will be responsible for:

• Work with commercial team to identify and design features necessary to achieve set KPIs.
• Design a resilient system architecture to ensure high availability and performance.
• Design suitable user experience to achieve set KPIs.
• Compliance to absolute digital rules.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of developers, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.
• Mentor and coach team members to enhance their technical skills and professional growth.

Architecture and Design

• Lead the architecture and design of the e-commerce website, making strategic decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into architectural blueprints.

Development and Implementation

• Oversee the development process, including coding, testing, and deployment of website features and functionalities.
• Drive the implementation of innovative and efficient solutions that enhance the user experience and drive business growth.

Stakeholder management

• Collaborate with product managers, UX/UI designers, cyber security, risk and other stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical solutions and business requirements.
• Work closely with project managers to plan and prioritize development tasks, ensuring on-time delivery.

Code Review and Quality Assurance

• Conduct regular code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to coding standards, and maintainability.
• Implement and enforce robust testing strategies with an emphasis on automation to guarantee a bug-free and seamless user experience.

Key performance indicators:

• Feature delivery to support achievement of commercial KPIs
• Overall site availability and performance
• Team management

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Software engineering life cycle.
• Engineering management.
• Product design and development.
• Architectural design

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as a technical lead or senior developer in e-commerce or web development.
• Strong proficiency in web technologies, including but not limited to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and relevant frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Experience with backend technologies and frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails, etc.).
• Knowledge of database systems (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and experience in optimizing database performance.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.