Senior Backend API Tech Lead & Team Mentor

Clicks Group; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Clicks Group is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer a team of backend developers across Junior to Senior levels. You will design, develop, secure RESTful services and microservices in a containerised .NET/C# environment, balancing 60% hands-on coding with 40% people leadership.

You will mentor engineers, ensure delivery against standards, and collaborate with Solution Architects, DevOps, security and product stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions and maintain production readiness.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software development with backend focus.
• At least 5 years of .NET/C# backend experience.
• Proven track record in leading teams and technical design.
• Experience with REST, microservices and containerised apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead the detailed technical design of backend services and APIs.
• Remain hands-on in developing, reviewing, testing and troubleshooting .NET/C# services.
• Decompose designs into tasks, interfaces and acceptance criteria.
• Guide containerised services using Docker and orchestration platforms.
• Ensure security, resilience, performance and observability standards.
• Enforce engineering practices, code reviews and release readiness.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, security and product stakeholders.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and production support activities.
• Lead diagnosis of defects and driving continuous improvement.
• Mentor and manage Junior to Senior backend developers.

Skills

C#

.NET

ASP.NET Core

REST APIs

Microservices

Docker

Kubernetes

Security

CI/CD

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure Cloud

Job description

Clicks Group is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to steer a team of backend developers across Junior to Senior levels. You will design, develop, secure RESTful services and microservices in a containerised .NET/C# environment, balancing 60% hands-on coding with 40% people leadership.

You will mentor engineers, ensure delivery against standards, and collaborate with Solution Architects, DevOps, security and product stakeholders to deliver end-to-end solutions and maintain production readiness.