Lead AI Software Engineer — Remote, Hands-on Leader

Sabio Group; Cape Town; In loco; ZAR 900.000 - 1.500.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Remote/Flexible work

Discovery Medical Aid

Connectivity Allowance

15 days paid holiday a year

Momentum EAP

Descrizione del lavoro

Sabio Group in Cape Town seeks an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive technical leadership for the SA AI Practice. You will code, mentor, and set engineering standards while delivering complex AI-enabled voice and contact centre solutions.

You will mentor engineers, estimate work, and collaborate with delivery leads and customers to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable systems across multiple projects.

Competenze

• More than five years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Experience leading or providing technical direction to software teams.
• Strong full-stack capability across backend services, APIs, and modern frontends.
• Hands-on with Python, C#/.NET or Java/Spring and JS/TS with modern frameworks.
• Experience with secure, scalable and observable production systems.
• Understanding of REST, asynchronous patterns and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, and IaC.
• Cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP) with containerised workloads (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Ability to estimate work, communicate assumptions, and manage risks.
• Clear written and verbal communication with customers and stakeholders.
• Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Mansioni

• Provide day-to-day technical leadership for the software engineering team in SA.
• Write, review and maintain production code across frontend, backend, and integration layers.
• Lead delivery of AI-enabled, voice and contact centre solutions from design to deployment.
• Apply consistent technical direction across multiple projects to meet quality and security targets.
• Escalate and resolve complex technical issues across code, cloud, and production environments.
• Remove blockers by coordinating expertise and flagging delivery risks early.
• Break down work, assess complexity and provide estimates for planning.
• Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews and code reviews.
• Collaborate with delivery leads, architects and stakeholders on approaches and progress.
• Promote testing, CI/CD, observability, security and reusable patterns.
• Contribute to AI Practice leadership on standards, resourcing and risk.
• Support production services with troubleshooting and reliability improvements.

Conoscenze

Software engineering

Technical leadership

Full-stack development

Backend - Python/C#/Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

REST APIs

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Azure/AWS/GCP

Docker/Kubernetes

Mentoring engineers

Strumenti

Docker

Kubernetes

Descrizione del lavoro

Sabio Group in Cape Town seeks an experienced Lead Software Engineer to drive technical leadership for the SA AI Practice. You will code, mentor, and set engineering standards while delivering complex AI-enabled voice and contact centre solutions.

You will mentor engineers, estimate work, and collaborate with delivery leads and customers to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable systems across multiple projects.