About Talent500.

Talent500 helps companies hire, build and manage global teams. We are trusted by the worlds leading companies - from Fortune 500s to fast-growth startups - to help them build and run their high-impact remote teams. Today, Talent500 is the fastest growing remote team builder in the world.
Our suite of proprietary AI-enabled tools and products provide businesses with an end-to-end platform to build their global teams. This includes access to a Global Talent Network of 300,000+ professionals globally and tools to manage contracting, payroll and benefits without the hassle of setting up legal entities or infrastructure.
We are backed by Accel Partners & ANSR, a global leader and enterprise transformation platform. For the last 15 years, the worlds leading organisations have trusted ANSR to transform their businesses by building technology and innovation hubs in talent-rich locations.



We are hiring for a trusted African payment gateway company

About the company:

• Our vision is to deliver delightful experiences for merchants and users, and be the payments partner of choice on the African continent.
• In everything we do, we strive to make it as easy as possible for merchants to focus on their business, while we take care of their payment needs.
• We work with the biggest enterprise businesses and the side-hustle next door, across every sector of the economy.
• We pride ourselves on delivering a world-class payments service with a seamless and secure checkout, enterprise-grade security and personalized multi-channel support to every business we partner with. We integrate easily with leading e-commerce platforms like WooCommerce, Wix, Shopify, Magento and Prestashop, and our modern API allows for custom integrations.
• We currently enable both enterprise and SME ecommerce in South Africa, Kenya and Mauritius, with rapid expansion planned to more countries on the continent.

Why we are hiring for this role:

The Technical Lead will work collaboratively with the Payments Integrations team to drive the development of new payment methods and make technical design decisions to make this process more efficient (currently 8 weeks implementation time).

What we would like you to have:

• At least 2 years experience as a Technical Lead
• At least 6 years experience programming in Python
• Strong experience in AWS
• Databases / SQL (MySQL / Postgres / MongoDB)
• Strong experience with best practices and a sound understanding of what makes valuable codebases.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
• A BSc Computer Science/ technical tertiary qualification or significant work experience will be useful
• Core function of the role:
• Collaborating with their team to identify and fix technical issues, and to identify and earmark gaps in required skills in the team
• Assisting in the hiring and training of individual contributors.
• Is a part of the Full software development life cycle and all its components with special emphasis on supervising system modifications
• Assists in auditing internal teams(Best Practice, Standards, Security and Compliance)
• Guiding their team through technical issues and challenges.
• Working with other technical leads on keeping systems up to date to minimize technical risk.
• Working with the team to set end year goals.
• Be the first point of call for systems within their domain.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.
• Motivating staff and creating an inclusive space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
• Mentoring other engineers from graduates to the senior engineers within the larger engineering team.
• Working alongside the Engineering managers and Product managers in resourcing the team for work coming up on the roadmap
• Working on keeping the team accountable with estimated deliverable

Things we take seriously at our company:

• Open and empathetic communication across the team and company. We value each others thought processes and have an open forum to collaborate cross-domain
• You say what you do and do what you say. Were all accountable to each other and our customers, we set expectations and meet them
• Ownership of the work that we do. We dont push tickets through, we thoughtfully problem solve pain points for our customers before, during and after code development
• We document our approach to scale what we do, soliciting input from the team and ensuring no team member is left behind
• We are continuously learning to build mastery and become domain experts at a worldwide level
• We measure outcomes not outputs

Our Tech Stack:

• Frontend: React, TypeScript
• Backend: Python, NodeJS
• Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Infra: AWS Lambda, Serverless, S3, EC2, API Gateway
• Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman
• Automation: Gitlab pipelines, CI/CD, Terraform

What do people say about working here?

• We have a diverse, community-orientated team where failure is allowed. We fail fast but aim to succeed even quicker as were committed to enabling entrepreneurs.

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