Java Backend Engineering Team Lead

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🔥 22 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 R88k - R146.6k / month

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Social Impact

Girls For Girls Africa Mental Health Foundation is an organization focused on improving mental health across Africa. Their work involves a global community of mental health innovators including researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, and advocates. Their mission includes promoting mental health, supporting mental health integration into general healthcare, and providing innovative resources and ideas to improve mental health services. They focus on addressing mental, neurological, and substance use disorders and provide platforms for sharing knowledge and innovations in mental health services across different parts of the world.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the individuals in your team • Maintain and develop new features on the software platform • Participate in agile rituals and practices • Coordinate the software engineering team's work • Apply software engineering principles to software design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation • Ensure developed software is secure and compliant with data protection requirements • Document work clearly for future use by others • Lead the team through the recruitment process stages, including technical challenge and interviews

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience focused on JVM languages • 3+ years of formal leadership experience managing a team of Java backend engineers, including responsibility for conducting team performance reviews • Experience within Microservices and AWS • Extensive experience working with the Spring framework and various other Java backend tools and frameworks • Experience or knowledge of Salesforce CRM would be a plus • Experience building software from the ground up • Desire to build scalable systems with quality • Based in South Africa • Excellent English skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits and allowances tailored to your location • Flexible work arrangements, including remote or hybrid options • A personal development budget of €500 per year • Unlimited holiday days • Opportunity to shape a growing, impactful product • Trust-based culture without unnecessary rules or micromanagement • Reference and background screening checks for successful candidates