Engineering Lead, FinCore — Payments Backbone & Impact

Bash.com; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market pay

Flexible time

Shopping perks

Job summary

Bash is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead for its FinCore Payments division in Cape Town. You will guide a cross-functional team responsible for core financial capabilities, owning people, delivery, and system health, while collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction and ensure high-quality execution.

You’ll drive architectural decisions, champion observability, and manage on-call and incident responses to maintain reliable services at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering experience and 2+ years leading a team or projects.
• Strong Go background; solid architectural skills.
• Experience with distributed, high-transaction systems; Kafka/Temporal a bonus.
• Commitment to observability and monitoring.
• Excellent communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team for FinCore's financial capabilities.
• Own team people, delivery plans, and long-term health of systems.
• Set technical standards and drive architectural decisions.
• Manage on-call, incident response, and post-mortems.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Education

BSc in Computer Science

Tools

Kafka

Temporal

Job description

Bash is seeking a Software Engineering Team Lead for its FinCore Payments division in Cape Town. You will guide a cross-functional team responsible for core financial capabilities, owning people, delivery, and system health, while collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to set direction and ensure high-quality execution.

You’ll drive architectural decisions, champion observability, and manage on-call and incident responses to maintain reliable services at scale.