Letshego Holdings Limited Current Job Opportunity – Apply Now!

As Technical Lead – Developers, you will have a range of responsibilities from shaping and implementing digital products to ensuring that we stay on the leading edge of technology. You will be expected to contribute across the full technology stack, from database and DevOps infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, over native apps, to front end development. As a Team Lead you will work in a cross-functional team with the Product Owner, Designers and engineers to co-develop the digital products.

Job Title: Front End Lead
Location: Gaborone, South East, Botswana
Reference #: Front End Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Market Related

Job Summary:
Lead the engineering team within a cross-functional, Agile squad to deliver digital journeys and products together with product and design
Define the framework and push for the best choice when it comes to technology selection and implementation
Use Agile engineering practices and various software and web development technologies to rapidly develop creative and efficient solutions that enhance the client customer and employee experience
Lead team members to craft clear user stories, design tests for prototypes and products, and continuously deliver product enhancements
Liaise with other teams within and outside the Digital unit to negotiate timelines, deliverables and dependencies
Collaborate closely with Product Owners and teams members to identify and socialize product and delivery risks
Drive forward and role-model best practice engineering processes and Agile behavior and ensuring teams members follow suit
Communicate with business stakeholders about Agile processes to set and manage expectations about delivery methods and timelines
Mentor and coach junior engineers on the best engineering practices
Collaborate closely on defining the appropriate solution architecture for digital product solutions

Requirements:
Understanding of a CI-CD process, containerization, and virtualization related technologies
Excellent programming skills in at least 2 modern programming languages/ frameworks (1 B/E and 1 F/E), such as Node.JS, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Kotlin multiplatform, ReactJs, or others
Excellent knowledge of SQL and one common database technology, such as Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase, Neo4J
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent; Computer Science background preferred
Strong team spirit with the ability to work in both local and virtual team settings
Infrastructure knowledge including RESTful APIs, Single Sign On, LDAP, Search Technologies (Apigee, GraphQL, Swagger, Elasticsearch, Kibana, auth0)
Full stack engineer with a passion for mentoring other colleagues in the team
Knowledge of pair programming, continuous integration and test-driven development
Familiarity with the concepts and pattern choices for Microservices is a must
At least 8 years of software development experience with experience working in Agile teams. Hands-on experience is a must
Experiences with code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous deployment, highly scalable applications, application security
Working knowledge and experience in designing distributed applications
Working knowledge of DevOps, Docker and infrastructure as code
DevOps exposure and knowledge of one or more tools such as Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible is a plus
Understanding or experience in container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, Istio etc.

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Application Deadline: 06/09/2021