Job Description:
Job Description
Digitech Marketing company is looking for a tech lead to drive a small team of
developers to innovate and enhance an i-gaming platform product which will be used
both internally and as white label by partners. As a Tech Lead you would be primarily
focused on leading the technology within the team. The primary role responsibility is to
guide the team in technical matters to achieve successful delivery of quality solutions.
Duties and Responsibilities
The roles main responsibilities are:
Technical Expertise Understand deeply the software development lifecycle,
principles and the technologies used. Encourage best practices, provide support and
guidance, as well as share the understanding new technologies and trends.
Architecture Be responsible for the overall design and definition of the system
architecture, be involved in key technical decisions and evaluating trade-offs,
considering performance, scalability and work towards a solution that provides the
team with a system that is simple and effective.
Quality Assurance Be responsible for the overall quality of a system or service,
and so theres often a need to set and enforce quality standards. This includes talking
to the team about best practices and being involved in Code Reviews to promote
maintainable, scalable code, and adhere to the best practices.
Collaboration Bridge the gap between the business and the technology, helping to
translate business requirements to the team and vice versa, communicate technical
challenges and limitations to the business.
Team responsibilities Since this is a very small team, the time invested to team
management is expected to be short, but from a responsibility perspective they
would still belong to the tech lead.
Delegating tasks
Time management and reporting
Team performance evaluations
Required Skills
From a skills perspective, a successful candidate possesses the following skills:
Software architecture
Knowing how to organize functionality in systems and subsystems systems and their
relationship to each other. Knowing how to define the external properties of the
hardware, Overseeing the construction of the software according to the architecture
and provide technical direction to the team.
Analytical thinking
Making educated decisions about complicated technical aspects of the products and
ensuring adherence to the technical direction laid out by the executive managers.
Problem-solving
Finding solutions to programming or software limitations and solving hard to find
glitches with novel ways.
Attention to detail
Being able to notice the nuances of the technical solutions to ensure a high quality
output from the team.
Coding
Being able to use at least PHP, JavaScript and HTML to be able to contribute to code
reviews and ensure adherence to the technical direction and best practices. The tech
stack includes Laravel and React.
Leadership
Being able to support the time to ensure they have the resources and time to do their
work well.
Desirable Skills
Technologies, concepts and domains that we will be working with to create our media
platform, knowledge of which would be highly desirable:
Design and Development of Complex Distributed Real-Time Systems
Microservices
Payment systems
Service Oriented Architecture
Concurrent Processing and Multi-Threading
High Availability
Domain Driven Design