Location
Nagpur | India
Job description
Technical Lead Peach Payments Our vision is to deliver delightful experiences for merchants and users and be the payments partner of choice on the African continent.
In everything we do, we strive to make it as easy as possible for merchants to focus on their business, while we take care of their payment needs.
We work with the biggest enterprise businesses and the side-hustle next door, across every sector of the economy. We pride ourselves on delivering a world-class payments service with a seamless and secure checkout, enterprise-grade security and personalized multi-channel support to every business we partner with.
We integrate easily with leading e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce, Wix, Shopify, Magento and Prestashop, and our modern API allows for custom integrations.
We currently enable both enterprise and SME ecommerce in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius, with rapid expansion planned to more countries on the continent.
Why were hiring for this role:
The Technical Lead will be responsible for ensuring that their pod delivers the most valuable solutions by providing the technical context (trade-offs) and championing engineering culture
How youll be making a difference:
- Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical issues, and to identify and earmark gaps in required skills in the team
- Assisting in the hiring and training of individual contributors.
- Is a part of the Full software development life cycle and all its components with special emphasis on supervising system modifications
- Assists in auditing internal teams(Best Practice, Standards, Security and Compliance)
- Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges.
- Working with other technical leads on keeping systems up to date to minimize technical risk.
- Working with the team to set end year goals.
- Be the first point of call for systems within their domain.
- Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
- Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Motivating staff and creating an inclusive space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
- Analysing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
- Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
- Mentoring other engineers from graduates to the senior engineers within the larger engineering team.
- Working alongside the Engineering managers and Product managers in resourcing the team for work coming up on the roadmap
- Working on keeping the team accountable with estimated deliverable
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 2 years experience as a Technical Lead
- At least 6 years experience programming in either backend or fullstack technologies such as Python, Node.js, Typescript or React
- Strong experience in AWS
- Databases / SQL (MySQL / Postgres / MongoDB)
- Strong experience with best practices and a sound understanding of what makes valuable codebases.
- Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
- Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
- Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills
- Preferably a BSc Computer Science/ technical tertiary qualification or significant work experience
- Preferably experience with AWS infrastructure, specifically AWS Lambda Peach Tech Stack:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Backend: Python, NodeJS
- Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Infra: AWS Lambda, Serverless, S3, EC2, API Gateway
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman
- Automation: Gitlab pipelines, CI/CD, Terraform Things we take seriously at Peach
- Open and empathetic communication across the team and company. We value each others thought processes and have an open forum to collaborate cross-domain
- You say what you do and do what you say. Were all accountable to each other and our customers, we set expectations and meet them
- Ownership of the work that we do. We dont push tickets through, we thoughtfully problem solve pain points for our customers before, during and after code development
- We document our approach to scale what we do, soliciting input from the team and ensuring no team member is left behind
- We are continuously learning to build mastery and become domain experts at a worldwide level
- We measure outcomes not outputs
What do people say about working here We have a diverse, community-orientated team where failure is allowed. We fail fast but aim to succeed even quicker as were committed to enabling entrepreneurs. We are a Hybrid Team This means that our teams predominantly work out of the office. We expect you to have a home or other office set-up, with reliable internet access. Team members have the option of going to a work space or office closest to them, where this allows. We may, from time to time, request team members to come to the office or travel to a location out of your area for complete team Meet-Ups We value diversity at Peach and therefore we are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences
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