Senior Lead Web Engineer (Developer) - Remote

Synergy Jobs (Pty) Ltd; Remote; ZAR 1 236 000 - 1 590 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment company is seeking a Senior/Lead Web Engineer for a remote position. This role involves developing user-facing web applications, leading a team, and ensuring quality delivery of web technologies. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience, strong skills in Vue or React, and the ability to manage and mentor team members in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years commercial experience preferred.
• Supports delivery teams in implementing projects.
• Keeps up to date with industry trends.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers for web application development.
• Develop new user-facing features.
• Interact with back-end APIs to send and receive data.
• Design and maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, devise solutions to them.

Skills

Highly experienced product focused Web Engineer

Experience in managing and leading a team

Extensive experience with modern web frameworks (Vue, React)

Familiar with Source control management (GIT)

Familiar with writing unit tests

Experience in proposing and implementing large scale improvements

Working experience using Microsoft Excel

Good interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to review peer code

Education

Degree or Diploma in Information Systems / Comp Sci / Engineering or similar

Tools

C# .NET

SQL and Entity Framework

Azure DevOps

Job description

POSITION: Senior/Lead Web Engineer (Remote)
LOCATION: Remote

The candidate will be required to fulfil and uphold the company values of personalised,
high quality product delivery by finding solutions to problems that team members and
users alike can benefit from. The candidate will become part of a young and dynamic
team of technology enthusiasts. The candidate will be offered an opportunity to learn
new products and technologies, so that they may deliver quality code and product to
customers. The candidate will be responsible for development of business and financial
applications using a combination of JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, and Modern web frameworks.

The ideal candidate will need to have the following skills and experience:

• Highly experienced product focused Web Engineer. Preferably with 5+ years commercial experience.
• Experience in managing and leading a team. Able to support delivery teams to implement projects and support members personal development.
• Extensive working experience with modern web frameworks Vue js/React.
• Familiar with Source control management (GIT), and CI/CD principles.
• Familiar with writing unit tests as part of the development process.
• Experience in proposing and implementing large scale technical improvements. Keeps up to date with industry trends and spreads this knowledge throughout the team.
• Working experience using Microsoft Excel.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills to effectively understand requirements and explain uncertainties in a team environment.
• Be able to review peer code.

Experience that would be advantageous for this role include:

• Working experience using C# .NET.
• Working experience with Databases using SQL and Entity Framework.
• Degree or Diploma in Information Systems / Comp Sci / Engineering or similar.
• A financial background or a background working and developing on financial systems.
• Familiarity with the advertising industry.
• System integrations (SDK, API, Web Services, RPC)
• Integration into ERP and accounting systems e.g. Xero, Dynamics NAV or Business Central, QuickBooks, Sage, SAP and others.
• Working experience with component libraries e.g. Extreme
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or other similar CI/CD platforms

Duties include the following:

• Assist with leading a team of software engineers who will be responsible for developing all user facing web applications. Including the new web app Lumo.
• Develop new user-facing features
• Interact with back-end APIs to send and receive data
• Design, build, maintain efficient, reusable and reliable code.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs and devise solutions to these problems.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Collaborate with other team members.
• Be able to breakdown work into small deliverables.
• Be able to estimate time to complete work.

• A working history at a largish, familiar name where they would have had to work and collaborate as a team so that they know the issues with inheriting code that makes support/maintenance difficult.
• Someone who has either developed systems from scratch - or ported existing systems to a new tech stack e.g. MVC to Vue/React or Vue2 to Vue3/React.