No Sweat → Work
1 - 10 employees
Founded 2015
📣 Marketing
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
Marketing • Logistics • Consulting
No Sweat → Work is a platform based in South Africa that connects employers with freelance and full-time talent in fields such as advertising, design, marketing, media, and public relations. Unlike traditional recruitment agencies, No Sweat simplifies the hiring process by enabling direct connections between clients and job seekers, managing various administrative tasks like invoicing and payments. With over 10,000 available candidates and a robust track record of successful placements, No Sweat → Work aims to efficiently match talent with project requirements.
Lead Software Engineer – Technical Lead
Job not on LinkedIn
🔥 10 minutes ago
🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote
💵 R120k - R160k / month
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🧑💻 Full-stack Engineer
👻 Ghost score 0%
Where this job comes from
Posted on No Sweat → Work's careers page, not through a job board
First seen by Remote Rocketship 10 minutes ago
No Sweat → Work
1 - 10 employees
Founded 2015
📣 Marketing
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
Marketing • Logistics • Consulting
No Sweat → Work is a platform based in South Africa that connects employers with freelance and full-time talent in fields such as advertising, design, marketing, media, and public relations. Unlike traditional recruitment agencies, No Sweat simplifies the hiring process by enabling direct connections between clients and job seekers, managing various administrative tasks like invoicing and payments. With over 10,000 available candidates and a robust track record of successful placements, No Sweat → Work aims to efficiently match talent with project requirements.
📋 Description
• Take technical ownership of a campaign-management platform for a UK-based creator-marketing business • Develop the internal platform into an operational product used by campaign teams, creators and clients • Build workflows for shortlisting, outreach, reporting, payments and related operations • Work alongside the Product Lead, Full Stack Engineer and Data Science Lead • Set technical direction while continuing to code and deliver features • Build and release complete features using feedback from real users • Make practical system-design, scaling and maintainability decisions • Ship reliable LLM features and establish validation, evaluation and cost controls • Own monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reliability improvements • Integrate CRM, payment, outreach, invoicing and third-party data services • Establish testing, code review, documentation, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices • Break down requirements, challenge priorities and communicate realistic delivery expectations • Identify resourcing needs and help hire, mentor and lead future engineers • Build the product, establish sound engineering practices and help grow the team
🎯 Requirements
• Proven experience building and scaling a production product to 10,000+ users, including ownership of architecture decisions • Strong hands-on full-stack engineering skills across application, data and infrastructure layers • Experience delivering production LLM features, including structured outputs, validation, evaluation, batch versus live processing and cost management • Daily use of AI coding tools • Strong code-review, debugging and refactoring skills • Experience building for external users, including authentication, client data isolation, payments and privacy requirements • Practical production-support experience and confidence diagnosing failures • Ability to work with incomplete requirements and turn business needs into useful software • Clear communication, sound judgement and ability to explain technical trade-offs • Interest in building a product and taking ongoing responsibility for its performance • Applicants must be based in South Africa • Ability to collaborate with a UK-based team during agreed overlapping hours • Experience with Python, FastAPI, SQLModel, Next.js, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Terraform and GitHub Actions is advantageous • Multimodal AI, API ingestion, email deliverability, SOC 2 readiness and creator-marketing experience are additional advantages • CV and relevant product, project or technical case-study links • Examples of systems personally helped build and scale • Production LLM example explaining contribution, technical decisions and results • Experience with the technology stack, AI coding tools and technical leadership • Current location, notice period and availability for January 2027 • Expected monthly CTC within the indicative range
🏖️ Benefits
• Long-term opportunity • Benefits to be confirmed during the selection process • Working location, employment arrangements, production-support expectations and travel requirements to be confirmed during the selection process
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