Tech Lead / Staff Software Engineer

Akiba Digital; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Akiba Digital as a Tech Lead / Staff Software Engineer at a seed-stage startup focused on RegTech. You will lead a global and distributed engineering team, driving product development through effective communication and innovative problem-solving. The role offers a unique opportunity to impact and grow within a dynamic environment as the company targets significant growth in the next months.

Benefits

Employee Stock Option Plan

Paid vacation

Tools provided for work

Qualifications

• Experience with agile team processes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD principles and enabling tools.
• Hands-on experience in a startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach team members in software development.
• Foster collaboration and communication across teams.
• Drive the transition to Continuous Delivery.

Skills

Problem-solving

Agile methodologies

Collaboration

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

HTML & CSS

Cloud infrastructure basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

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Job briefBeing a Tech Lead is probably 20% communication, 20% problem-solving, and 20% coaching / people / process.

Is that how you operate?

We're looking for collaborative, cross-functional, product-oriented problem-solvers (ie.

We're transitioning to Continuous Delivery under the new CTO because the best way to help engineers build great software is to deliver and test it quickly, not a month later.Our team is global and fully-distributed : as long as you can be online with us for 5-6 hours a day, and as long as you speak English with advanced fluency (because : communication ), we don't care where you are.

We get together for retreats someplace beautiful whenever we can.

And if you'd like to join our Hybrid office setup in Johannesburg, you're very welcomepanyAkiba is a seed-stage startup in Identity / RegTech, seemingly right at the moment where we achieve Product-Market Fit.

We just joined the Global RegTech !

If we're right, we are about to start growing fast and building a LOT of great software.

We've just launched the MVP of our Risk-Decisioning Platform 'AkibaOne', a cutting-edge risk decisioning platform focused on empowering businesses to make faster, smarter, and more inclusive financial decisions.

MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g.

MongoDB) Evidence of continuous growth and learning, with proof of having effectively and quickly adopted new technologies, because in reality : nobody already knows it all Product-orientation, more than a little HTML & CSS, and knowledge of the basic rules of creating effective human interfaces Hands-on experience shaping an agile team process (no certifications or strong dogma required), and ability to explain why / when it's helpful Passionate commitment to CI / CD and experience with effective enabling tools Basic operating familiarity with cloud infrastructure (some K8s chops would be great too, but not expected) Use AI in your own work and have an opinion about how your team should use it Preferably : experience in a fast-moving, startup-style environment at least once (we do NOT operate like a big enterprise) Nice-to-have : Bachelors degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field, but we're big fans of self-taught engineers Compensation And BenefitsIf you're looking to build a product that matters with a team that makes you want to show up each morning, that's Akiba.

But full-disclosure : we're a seed-stage startup, which means that if you're looking for the highest-possible compensation, we're not (yet) the right place.

Compensation is very likely to increase if we land Series A funding in approx.

9 months (or get profitable fast), but we don't have guarantees.In the meantime, tell us what comp you would need in order to join us, and we'll do our best.

We also provide a documented Employee Stock-Option Plan, paid vacation / holidays, and all the tools you'd need (computer, etc.)

to do good work.Also : we have a team of leaders from local and global businesses for you to learn from.

Our team comes from McKinsey, Transunion, and other great organizations.

And your CTO is a hands-on Engineer who knows his first job is to set you up for success and to communicate what you need to the rest of the company, not to look over your shoulder while you code.

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