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Senior Software Engineering Lead (Core Platform & Integrations)

Xtend

South Africa · On-site Full-time Senior 4d ago

About the role

Role Purpose

The Senior Engineering Lead will provide hands-on technical leadership across the

core mobility and data platform. This role owns technical decision-making,

architecture integrity, and engineering execution, ensuring predictable delivery

aligned to the agreed customer journey and product roadmap.

This role is critical to stabilising delivery and providing the development team with clear

direction, standards, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

• Assist with the technical architecture of the Guud ecosystem

• Make day-to-day engineering decisions to unblock delivery

• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reusable across the ecosystem

• Protect the integrity of the core product (no ad-hoc client builds)

Delivery & Execution

• Lead the development team’s execution across app, dashboard, integrations, and data flows

• Translate product requirements into clear technical plans

• Oversee code quality, environments, releases, and technical debt

• Work closely with outsourced partners to ensure standards and continuity

Team Leadership

• Provide direction, mentoring, and coaching to junior and mid-level developers

• Establish consistent engineering practices (code reviews, standards, SDLC discipline)

• Be the technical authority within the team

Integration & Ecosystem

• Own third-party integrations (clients, providers, wearables, partners)

• Ensure API consistency, data flow integrity, and integration scalability

Experience & Skills

• 6–10+ years software engineering experience

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in a product-led environment

• Strong backend engineering background (APIs, integrations, data flows)

• Experience working with mobile applications and analytics platforms

• Comfortable working with in/outsourced teams

• Strong decision-making and communication skills

• Health, mobility, logistics, or data-heavy platform experience

• Cloud-native architecture experience, specifically AWS experience

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

• Clear technical ownership and reduced delivery ambiguity

• Improved delivery predictability and code quality

• Stabilised engineering practices

• Reduced reliance on advisory intervention for day-to-day execution

Work Location: In person

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