About the position
A leading HealthTech company with a strong values-driven culture—emphasizing accountability, collaboration, and a politics-free environment—is seeking a Technical Development Lead. The role focuses on developing innovative technologies to transform healthcare and improve lives, with a mission to make healthcare more affordable and accessible.
This is a thriving, fast-growing organization that recognizes outstanding performance and offers diverse opportunities for career advancement.
Lead a development team within Technology Services, combining hands-on development, technical guidance, and people management to drive cloud-based product delivery and support the strategic roadmap in a high-performance environment.
For brevity, a key summary of the job specification is provided below. Full details are available after shortlisting.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Leadership & Hands-on Development
- Lead a team of 4–6 developers; provide mentorship, regular code reviews, and uphold architectural standards.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance web apps on GCP (Firebase/Firestore) with Angular; contribute ~50–60% hands-on coding.
- Address technical debt; champion modern technologies and sound software design principles.
- Act as a subject-matter participant in the Architecture forum; ensure adherence to defined solution architectures.
Delivery, Operations & Quality
- Plan and estimate work; drive sprints with product and QA; communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Oversee deployments, release management, and ongoing maintenance; troubleshoot complex issues.
- Ensure robust testing (unit, integration, performance) and optimize for performance, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency.
Team & People Management
- Manage 4–6 permanent employees and contractors; foster a high-performance, quality-driven culture.
- Handle conflict resolution, motivation, coaching, and ownership of outcomes.
- Collaborate effectively with diverse, cross-functional, and remote teams (including where distance/language barriers exist).
Product & Project Delivery
- Drive platform modernization (especially cloud components) through sprint contribution, planning, and stakeholder engagement to deliver high-quality solutions.
REQUIREMENTS
- Tertiary technology degree strongly preferred.
- 8+ years in software development; 2–3 years in a leadership/mentorship role.
- Healthcare experience advantageous.
- Modern SDLC (Agile/Scrum/Kanban).
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
- Strong in GCP (Firebase/Firestore), Angular (v12+), HTML5/CSS3, RESTful APIs, Git, CI/CD, and containerization (e.g., Docker).
- Broad architectural understanding (solution, business, information, and application architecture) and systems thinking.
- Familiarity with agentic AI in the SDLC is required.
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving; collaborative, adaptable, growth-oriented.
- Takes full ownership of outcomes and engages effectively across stakeholders and remote teams.
COMPENSATION:
- The proposed salary for the role is R120k CTC per month, but the option remains with the client to offer any market related salary considering a candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience.
Desired Skills:
- angular
- git
- google cloud
- RESTful api
- software development manager
- containerization
