Tech Lead: Modernize & Architect Scalable Microservices

Trade Shield; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Trade Shield seeks a Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5–8+ years of experience to modernize a legacy system and guide a small team. You will own the transformation to a scalable Angular/React + .NET Core architecture, drive platform upgrades, and ensure robust, data-driven solutions in a complex distributed environment.

You will mentor 2–3 developers, collaborate with business units, enforce best practices, and own deployment pipelines, security, and governance across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5-8+ years of professional software development experience, including 2+ years in a technical lead or senior engineering capacity.
• Demonstrated success in system migrations, modernization, or large-scale platform upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Modernize & Rebuild: Lead the complete migration of front-end and back-end components from AngularJS and .NET Framework to modern Angular (10+) and .NET Core/5+.
• Architect for Scale: Design and implement scalable microservices and RESTful APIs following SOLID principles.
• Distributed Systems: Manage inter-service communication using message bus technologies such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Azure Service Bus within an event-driven architecture.
• Data & Performance: Optimize high-volume data processing, SQL Server performance, and system throughput.
• Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor a small team (2–3 developers), review code, and ensure engineering best practices are followed.
• Business Engagement: Work with business to prioritize across technical and business demands.
• System Ownership: Oversee the system lifecycle - from architecture, implementation, and CI/CD deployment to monitoring and support.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with product and business teams to align system capabilities with operational goals.
• Monitor and address security and governance needs.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

C# / .NET Core / .NET 5+

AngularJS / Angular 10+ or React/Vue

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS

SQL Server

CI/CD, Git, Agile/Scrum

RabbitMQ / Kafka / Azure Service Bus

Job description

Trade Shield seeks a Lead Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5–8+ years of experience to modernize a legacy system and guide a small team. You will own the transformation to a scalable Angular/React + .NET Core architecture, drive platform upgrades, and ensure robust, data-driven solutions in a complex distributed environment.

You will mentor 2–3 developers, collaborate with business units, enforce best practices, and own deployment pipelines, security, and governance across the lifecycle.