South Africa Remote (Global) Full-time

Carry1st is hiring a Lead Engineer - Shop

About the Role

Carry1st is hiring a Lead Engineer - Shop to lead the delivery of the Carry1st Shop across multiple distribution channels. You will evolve and grow the shop platform, gaining deep knowledge of gaming monetization and scaling the platform for millions of users.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and convert these into technical specifications for the development team.
  • Lead the team through design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance phases.
  • Write testable, scalable, and efficient code while conducting regular code reviews.
  • Promote and improve development best practices by partnering with our Senior Staff Engineers and CTO.
  • Perform line management duties and grow the engineering careers of your direct reports.

What We're Looking For

  • Proven success as a team lead.
  • Ability to collaborate with non-engineering, sometimes non-English speaking stakeholders and lead teams through software delivery.
  • Strong system design skills to consistently design scalable features and document them efficiently.
  • Strong knowledge of full-stack software development, with experience writing scalable software and reviewing code.
  • Experience with e-commerce frameworks and tools related to analytics, CMS, experimentation, and localization.
  • Strong project management skills using Scrum, including knowledge of ceremonies, measuring team effectiveness, and managing the backlog with a product manager.

Technical Stack

  • Next.js
  • Java
  • Spring
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • AWS

Team & Environment

You will be the Lead Engineer of the Shop Team.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Build awesome, industry-changing products.
  • Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech.
  • Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates.
  • Own shares in the Company.
  • Co-working excursions: Travel to meet colleagues in cities around the world.
  • Awesome equipment provided.
  • Remote working allowance: $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience.
  • Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events.
  • Social events: Participate in regular company events.
  • Birthday leave: A paid day off.

Work Mode

This is a fully-remote role open across 25+ countries.

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.

Required Skills
next.jsJavaSpringPostgreSQLRabbitMQAWSbackend developmentfrontend developmentsystem designmicroservicesAPI developmentcloud infrastructuredistributed systemsdatabase management
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Carry1st

Africa’s leading games publisher and monetisation platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. Launches, localises, and scales games, operates a digital top-up web shop, and offers a payments platform.

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Job Details
Category fullstack
Posted 8 months ago