Software Technical Lead
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Eksab is looking for a Software Development Technical Team Lead to join the team. Ideal candidates have at least 4 years of software development experience.
Eksab is a technology startup built for the 1.2 billion football fans in the Middle-East and Africa. Our goal is to deliver a fun, exciting experience that increases engagement and keeps fans on their toes! To-date, Eksab has processed over 10M+ predictions and has been ranked as a #1 App on the Google Play Store. Recently, Eksab has closed its seed round of funding by California-based venture capital firm 500 Startups.
Eksab is looking for an exceptional full stack developer who will be responsible for:
- Coding, innovative design and architecture of the app we built.
- Hiring, managing and growing a team of exceptional talent as well as offering inputs into the overall tech strategy of the company. You will use data and analytics and implement a solid project management structure for the tech team.
- An engineering leader who wants to help shape an industry.
- Work closely with the company's management to determine strategy
- This position is perfect for those who want to establish themselves as a domain experts in building and growing both technical and non-technical teams in the software industry.
- This is a full-time position at the Eksab office at the Greek Campus in downtown Cairo. The position is reserved for candidates with exceptional experience across a range of technologies, as well those with a clear enthusiasm for the Eksab product and vision.
As Technical Lead, you will:
- Lead Eksab's Software Development team.
- Develop, design, and deploy web-based applications on the basis of business requirements and aligned functionalities
- Implement and configure interface concepts for projects facing different back-ends and systems.
- Ensure scalability, availability, reliability, and security of the application by conducting thorough Alpha & Beta testing
- Ensure that the solution meets internal and external compliance & security standards.
- Keep up-to-date with technological trends & UX innovations
- Research technological aspects of Eksab's competitors.
Here’s what an ordinary day looks like, you will:
- Developing and maintaining both new and existing features.
- Recruiting talented engineers to your team.
- Write client-side code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to-use, high volume production applications.
- Ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
- Contribute to presentation layer standards and practices.
- Contribute to testing and implementation approach for presentation layer.
- Prototype future interfaces.
- Collaborating closely with the product team and other team members and stakeholders.
- Managing the software development team.
- Taking responsibility of Eksab's entire technology stack.
Job Requirements
Requirements
- Ideal candidates have a bachelor of Computer Science or related and are leaders with previous experience leading tech teams.
- Experienced in leading engineering teams.
- Experienced in building and managing product backlogs.
- A Senior Developer ready to work on an innovative product with React Native, GraphQL and PHP (Laravel).
Experience in the following technologies:
- Experience with iOS and Android development
- A broad knowledge of React and the Javascript ecosystem
- Experience with Multi-Threading and memory management specific to mobile devices
- Experience with caching mechanisms
- Experience with Queue and big data processing
- Experience with Analytics and Growth Hacking
- Experience with Automated deployments, DevOPS and GitFlow
- An understanding of the need for encapsulated UI code
- Disciplined approach to writing tests and quality assurance
- Understanding of core CS concepts such as: common data structures and algorithms, profiling/optimisation
- Excellent communication skills are a must.
Eksab strives to offer the most exciting workplace in the Middle-East and Africa. To do that, we offer competitive salaries and benefits, as well as perks for our engineers. In return, we're looking for hard-working, hungry developers who are willing to go the extra mile to build a great product.