Platform Tech Lead

Yellow Card LLC; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Global impact

Autonomy

Growth opportunities

Healthy work‑life balance

Job summary

Yellow Card seeks a Platform Tech Lead to anchor the Platform Engineering team, owning the technical roadmap and ensuring 99.99% availability for institutional partners and global financial networks that rely on us. You will lead critical production implementations, drive architectural excellence, and align technical priorities with business goals in a fast-growing global B2B FinTech environment.

This remote role offers autonomy, opportunities to work with AI-driven infrastructure, and a path to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale production environments.
• 2+ years leading site reliability engineers or developers.
• Deep AWS knowledge including serverless, API gateway, DynamoDB, EKS and S3.
• Strong Kubernetes, microservices and CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions).
• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly and guide teams.

Responsibilities

• Act as final technical reviewer for complex global traffic routing and networking.
• Architect robust solutions to achieve 99.99% system uptime.
• Identify root causes of critical incidents and implement permanent fixes.
• Lead capacity planning, demand forecasting and system tuning.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting for all critical systems.
• Align technical priorities with business goals for senior leadership.
• Partner with SecOps to maintain strong security across global infra.

Skills

Cloud architecture AWS

Kubernetes & EKS

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Linux OS

SRE / incident management

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

EKS

CI/CD

Lambda

Job description

Who We Are

Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa. We are now expanding our reach into new global markets, evolving into a premier B2B financial technology provider. Our mission is to build the infrastructure that enables seamless financial inclusion and cross-border commerce for institutional partners worldwide.

Role Purpose

As the Platform Tech Lead, you will serve as the technical anchor for the Platform Engineering team. You will lead critical production implementations and take full ownership of the technical roadmap to ensure our services maintain 99.99% availability for the institutional partners and global financial networks that rely on us.

Success in this role requires a critical ability to adapt and learn; you will stay ahead of the curve as we integrate new technologies and evolve our platform to meet the high-stakes demands of a rapidly expanding global B2B landscape.

What You’ll Do

• Technical Leadership: Act as the final technical reviewer for complex setups, including global traffic routing and EKS scaling.Act as the final technical reviewer for complex implementations, such as networking setups (e.g., VPNs, certificate rotation for mTLS).
• Architectural Excellence: Architect robust solutions to ensure strict adherence to our 99.99% System Uptime Executive OKR.
• Incident Management: Identify underlying root causes for critical production incidents and provide permanent fixes, ensuring severity incidents remain at 0-1 per month.
• Performance & Scaling: Lead service capacity planning, demand forecasting, and system tuning to ensure scalability is designed into our products from the start.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical systems to ensure SLAs are met and proactive notifications are in place.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Establish trust with senior leaders by aligning technical priorities with business goals and providing accurate status updates.
• Security & Compliance: Partner with SecOps to ensure our global infrastructure meets rigorous security standards and maintains a minimal vulnerability window.

What You Bring

• Experience: 7+ years of hands‑on technical experience with large‑scale production environments and infrastructure.
• Leadership: 2+ years of experience leading site reliability engineers or software developers building customer‑facing applications.
• Cloud Expertise: In‑depth knowledge of AWS architecture (Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EKS, and S3).
• Modern Tooling: Strong grasp of Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD principles (GitHub Actions).
• Technical Adaptability: You possess a proven ability to learn and master new technologies on the fly, recognizing that the tools we use today (like AI‑driven infrastructure and emerging FinTech protocols) will evolve tomorrow.
• Growth Mindset: You don't just manage existing systems; you proactively identify opportunities to upskill the team and integrate cutting‑edge solutions that improve our B2B performance.
• Agile Evolution: You thrive in an environment where pivoting is a strength, adapting your technical strategy as we scale our institutional partnerships and global network footprint.
• Operational Excellence: Solid understanding of performance monitoring tools and Linux operating systems.
• Kubernetes Expertise: Proven, deep experience managing and securing Kubernetes (EKS) at scale is a significant advantage.
• Advanced Networking: Strong grasp of complex networking concepts required for global multi‑region deployments and secure B2B integrations.

Perks & Responsibilities

• Remote Work: Flexible, fully remote work setting.
• Global Impact: Be part of a team shaping the future of global FinTech and stablecoin accessibility.
• Autonomy: Direct ownership over complex projects, from the initial architectural design to global production delivery.
• Growth: Continuous opportunities to upskill and explore cutting‑edge tech like AI integrations.
• Balance: On‑call rotations designed with a focus on maintaining a healthy work‑life balance.

Job Type: Full‑Time | Remote