Engineering Lead: Player-Coach for Cloud-Scale Systems

OutsideCapital; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

OutsideCapital is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide a software-engineering team while staying close to architecture, design, delivery, and production problem-solving. The role blends people leadership with hands-on technical judgement to set direction and translate business needs into actionable plans.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record leading teams, delivering complex software, and shaping technical roadmaps with stakeholders, with hands-on experience in AWS/Azure and modern tech

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring software-engineering teams.
• Proven delivery of complex software, digital-platform or customer-facing technology initiatives.
• Recent hands-on understanding of backend and frontend engineering, APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong practical knowledge of architecture, design patterns, scalability, reliability, security and performance.
• Experience shaping or executing technical roadmaps with Product and business stakeholders.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure or a comparable cloud environment.
• Evidence of improving engineering workflows, delivery capability, quality or platform performance.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• A player-coach approach, with the credibility to engage in code, design and difficult technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a software-engineering team across multiple projects.
• Balance people leadership with hands-on technical judgement to set direction.
• Translate business needs into executable plans and roadmaps.
• Create conditions for engineers to perform at their best and deliver quality software.

Skills

Leadership experience

Delivery of complex software

Hands-on backend/frontend

Architecture/design patterns

Technical roadmaps

AWS

Azure

Engineering workflows

Communication skills

Player-coach

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kafka

C#

.NET/.NET Core

JavaScript

Angular

React

Python

Go

SQL

Job description

OutsideCapital is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide a software-engineering team while staying close to architecture, design, delivery, and production problem-solving. The role blends people leadership with hands-on technical judgement to set direction and translate business needs into actionable plans.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record leading teams, delivering complex software, and shaping technical roadmaps with stakeholders, with hands-on experience in AWS/Azure and modern tech