Lead Software Developer — Cape Town, Hands-On SaaS

Pinewood.AI; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinewood.AI is expanding its Cape Town hub and seeks an experienced Lead Developer to guide a team of developers and engineers. You will shape technical decisions, drive delivery, and ensure scalable, secure enterprise SaaS solutions for the Pinewood Automotive Intelligence Platform.

The role reports to the UK team and collaborates with Birmingham engineering and product partners. As a senior contributor, you will mentor others, lead architecture discussions, and maintain high engineering

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Lead Developer/Senior Developer/Technical Lead in SaaS or enterprise software.
• Hands-on expertise in C#, .NET/.NET Core, and SQL/T-SQL.
• Experience delivering frontend features with HTML, JavaScript, and Razor.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Cape Town hub team providing day-to-day technical direction.
• Collaborate with UK Product/Engineering teams to deliver features for the Pinewood Automotive Intelligence Platform.
• Remain hands-on in coding, design, and architecture; promote best practices across the stack.

Skills

C#

.NET / .NET Core

SQL / T-SQL

Azure Cloud Services

Azure DevOps

JavaScript

HTML

Razor

Leadership

Tools

Visual Studio

VS Code

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Pinewood.AI is expanding its Cape Town hub and seeks an experienced Lead Developer to guide a team of developers and engineers. You will shape technical decisions, drive delivery, and ensure scalable, secure enterprise SaaS solutions for the Pinewood Automotive Intelligence Platform.

The role reports to the UK team and collaborates with Birmingham engineering and product partners. As a senior contributor, you will mentor others, lead architecture discussions, and maintain high engineering