Head of Software Engineering: Lead Scale & Architecture

Bullock Tech Talent Partners; Cape Town; Híbrido; ZAR 1.800.000 - 3.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Bullock Tech Talent Partners in Cape Town is seeking a Head of Software to lead a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and data domains. You will drive the software strategy, architecture decisions, and delivery excellence in a senior leadership role.

You will hire, coach, and scale teams while maintaining hands-on credibility in architecture and incident response. This is a hybrid role with three days in-office per week.

Formación

• Minimum 3 years managing software engineers or technical leads.
• Engineering degree, Diploma, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional software teams.
• Proven track record of shipping production systems at scale.
• Experience owning or significantly influencing architecture decisions.
• Strong exposure to structured software design and release management practices.
• Soft Skills: attention to detail with multiple requests; good written and verbal communication.
• Hands-on approach while leading teams in a fast-paced environment.

Responsabilidades

• Own the software strategy and technical roadmap across backend services, edge compute, APIs, and supporting developer platforms.
• Define and evolve system architecture for low-latency real-time tracking workloads (streaming ingestion, processing, synchronisation and delivery).
• Make pragmatic technology decisions that improve reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.
• Drive strong engineering practices: design reviews, RFCs, coding standards, test strategies, telemetry and release governance.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Architecture

Cross-functional

Delivery management

Educación

Engineering degree

Diploma

Herramientas

DevOps tooling

Descripción del empleo

Bullock Tech Talent Partners in Cape Town is seeking a Head of Software to lead a team of engineers across backend, frontend, and data domains. You will drive the software strategy, architecture decisions, and delivery excellence in a senior leadership role.

You will hire, coach, and scale teams while maintaining hands-on credibility in architecture and incident response. This is a hybrid role with three days in-office per week.