Liquid Thought

Senior Engineering Lead / Tech Lead

Liquid Thought  •  Cape Town, ZA (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

Role Purpose

The Senior Engineering Lead will provide hands-on technical leadership across the

core mobility and data platform. This role owns technical decision-making,

architecture integrity, and engineering execution, ensuring predictable delivery

aligned to the agreed customer journey and product roadmap.

This role is critical to stabilising delivery and providing the development team with clear

direction, standards, and accountability.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership

Own the technical architecture of the core mobility and data platform

Make day-to-day engineering decisions to unblock delivery

Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and reusable across the ecosystem

Protect the integrity of the core product (no ad-hoc client builds)

Delivery & Execution

Lead the development teams execution across app, dashboard, integrations, and

data flows

Translate product requirements into clear technical plans

Oversee code quality, environments, releases, and technical debt

Work closely with outsourced partners to ensure standards and continuity

Team Leadership

Provide direction, mentoring, and coaching to junior and mid-level developers

Establish consistent engineering practices (code reviews, standards, SDLC

discipline)

Be the technical authority within the team

Integration & Ecosystem

Own third-party integrations (clients, providers, wearables, partners)

Ensure API consistency, data flow integrity, and integration scalability

Experience & Skills

8–12+ years software engineering experience

Proven experience as a Tech Lead / Senior Engineer in a product-led

environment

Strong backend engineering background (APIs, integrations, data flows)

Experience working with mobile applications and analytics platforms

Comfortable working with in/outsourced teams

Strong decision-making and communication skills

Health, mobility, logistics, or data-heavy platform experience

Cloud-native architecture experience

Success Measures (First 6 Months)

Clear technical ownership and reduced delivery ambiguity

Improved delivery predictability and code quality

Stabilised engineering practices

Reduced reliance on advisory intervention for day-to-day execution

Liquid Thought

About Liquid Thought

Liquid Thought is a strategy-led digital innovation agency, delivering tailored solutions that enable its Clients to grow and compete more effectively in the digital economy.

We're a Digital Enabler for leading brands with a strong focus on Customer Experience, Digital Innovation & Transformation Services including Strategy, Experience Design, Technology Delivery and Intelligence / Insights.

Whether you are building your online business, have an idea for a new product, need to re-platform your technology or re-imagine your digital presence, our highly skilled team of creatives, engineers and strategists are standing by to partner you in your journey to becoming more digitally relevant.

To learn more about us, get in touch: hello@liquidthought.co.za | We're always looking for great talent, let us know why you would like to join our team: hireme@liquidthought.co.za

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Cape Town, ZA
Year Founded
2001
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