[Hiring] Technical Team Lead @Yellow Card Financial

Role Description

We’re looking to hire a Technical Team Lead located within Africa to join our fast-growing, fully remote team. You will join our Commercial Pod, the team that owns the systems our commercial business runs on: trade execution, treasury operations, commercial operations, and the internal tooling our operations teams use every day.

As a Technical Team Lead, you will own architecture, lead the hardest implementations yourself, and set the standard for how the pod builds. This is deliberately not a management role. Your Engineering Manager handles 1:1s, performance, and growth conversations. You own technical direction and technical quality, and you stay deep in the code, with roughly 90% of your time hands-on.

This role is full-stack by requirement, not by preference. Our commercial surfaces span a Vue 3 B2B portal and a fleet of TypeScript services on AWS. We need someone who can hold the whole path in their head and make calls at either end.

Our technology stack includes:

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Vue 3 (Composition API)
• Pinia
• Vite
• Vitest
• Storybook
• Serverless Framework
• AWS Lambda
• DynamoDB
• RDS
• AWS SQS
• SNS
• EventBridge
• Step Functions
• EKS with Helm and Istio
• Valkey and ElastiCache
• S3
• API Gateway
• Cognito
• AWS Bedrock
• Datadog
• GitHub Actions
• and more.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and running production systems, with at least 2 years as a tech lead, staff engineer, or equivalent technical anchor for a team
• Genuinely full-stack and credible on both sides
• Deep AWS experience with serverless and event-driven architecture
• Expert-level TypeScript, plus solid Vue 3 or a demonstrated ability to get there fast from React or another modern framework
• Track record of raising engineering quality on an existing codebase
• Operational maturity
• Strong grasp of API design, REST conventions, versioning, and client-server contracts
• Excellent written communication
• Mentorship instinct
• Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment

Requirements

• Own the architecture of Commercial Pod systems end-to-end
• Lead the pod’s design doc process
• Represent Commercial in our org-wide engineering standards programme
• Make and document the trade-offs
• Take the highest-risk production implementations yourself
• Set the engineering bar through your own code and your reviews
• Own the production health of Commercial services
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Commercial systems
• Take part in the technical lead dev support rota
• Mentor the engineers in the pod
• Partner with the Product Manager to turn commercial priorities into a technical plan
• Run and encourage Knowledge Sharing Sessions
• Interview candidates and act as a signal on the technical bar for the pod
• Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful health coverage
• Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally
• Fully remote work environment
• Mental health support services
• Opportunity to work with talented professionals from 24+ countries
• Be part of a team shaping the future of global FinTech and stablecoin accessibility