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Technical Team Lead (Full-stack)
Yellow Card
WorldwideremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Required Experience: 7+ years production systems (2+ as tech lead/staff)
- Location: Africa (Fully Remote)
- Role Nature: 90% hands-on technical leadership (non-management)
- Key Benefit: Stock option plan
- Core Stack: TypeScript, Vue 3, and AWS Serverless
- Preferred Experience: FinTech or Crypto products
Role overview
Yellow Card is the largest licensed Stablecoin-based infrastructure provider operating across over 60 countries, providing infrastructure for businesses to manage Stablecoins, payments, and operations across 50 emerging markets. They are seeking a Technical Team Lead located within Africa to join their fully remote Commercial Pod, which manages systems for trade execution, treasury operations, commercial operations, and internal tooling. As a Technical Team Lead, you will own architecture, lead hard implementations, and set technical standards, remaining deeply hands-on with roughly 90% of your time spent in the code. This is a full-stack role requiring expertise in Vue 3 and TypeScript on AWS, focusing on technical direction and quality rather than people management.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture of Commercial Pod systems end-to-end: service boundaries, data models, event flows, and the contracts between our frontend and our services
- Lead the pod’s design doc process. Write the hard ones, review the rest, and run the design doc review sessions where designs get pressure-tested before anyone writes code
- Represent Commercial in our org-wide engineering standards programme, reviewing RFCs as a Technical Lead and driving their adoption inside the pod: auditing existing services against approved standards and sequencing the gap-closing work
- Make and document the trade-offs. Serverless versus containerised, synchronous versus event-driven, build versus integrate. Then explain the reasoning so the pod can make the next call without you
- Take the highest-risk production implementations yourself, building across both the Vue 3 frontend and our TypeScript serverless and containerised services
- Set the engineering bar through your own code and your reviews: strict typing, real test coverage, structured logs, correlation IDs, graceful failure handling, and fault tolerance as a design goal rather than an aspiration
- Own the production health of Commercial services: meaningful Datadog dashboards, monitors and SLOs with thresholds that reflect reality, and alerts a person can act on at 3 am
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Commercial systems, and make sure the follow-up work actually ships
- Take part in the technical lead dev support rota, roughly once every five weeks.
- Mentor the engineers in the pod, growing their architectural judgement and not just their throughput, in partnership with the Engineering Manager
- Partner with the Product Manager to turn commercial priorities into a technical plan, and to be honest about cost, risk, and sequencing
- Run and encourage Knowledge Sharing Sessions, and keep the pod’s technical documentation trustworthy
- Interview candidates and act as a signal on the technical bar for the pod
- Embrace and demonstrate our values: humility, creativity, and independence
- Exude your upbeat energy and enthusiasm every day to motivate your team to be the best they can be in every aspect of what they do
- Celebrate the success of others by recognising the contributions of committed team members and their achievements
- Collaborate with your peers to collectively think of innovative ideas that drive business through technology
- Build and utilise working relationships with internal business partners across the organisation and external business contacts
Requirements
- 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. You can design a DynamoDB access pattern in the morning and untangle a Vue 3 reactivity problem in the afternoon, and you would not describe either as outside your remit
- Deep AWS experience with serverless and event-driven architecture. You have opinions about idempotency keys, dead-letter queues, and backoff that come from production scars rather than blog posts
- Expert-level TypeScript, plus solid Vue 3 or a demonstrated ability to get there fast from React or another modern framework
- You have led architecture for a team and had it adopted. You can point to standards you wrote that other engineers actually follow
- Track record of raising engineering quality on an existing codebase, not just greenfield work: migration, deprecation, and paying down debt without stalling product delivery
- Operational maturity. You have owned on-call, led incidents calmly, and driven follow-up actions to completion
- Strong grasp of API design, REST conventions, versioning, and client-server contracts
- Excellent written communication. Our engineering culture runs on design docs, RFCs, and rough consensus, so persuading people in writing is core to the job rather than a soft skill
- Mentorship instinct. You measure yourself partly by how good the engineers around you become
- Comfortable working in an Agile/Scrum environment with strong adherence to agile development practices
- Clear and accurate written and verbal communication is a must
- Keen interest in learning and sharing current trends and advancements in modern web and back-end frameworks
Nice to have
- Experience in FinTech, Crypto, trading, treasury, or FX, particularly systems handling money movement and ledger correctness
- Experience in African markets or other multi-currency, multi-regulator environments
- Kubernetes and EKS depth, including Helm and a service mesh such as Istio
- Datadog fluency beyond dashboard-reading: instrumentation strategy, SLO design, and trace-driven debugging
- Experience shipping AI-backed features to production, and using AI tooling to raise team throughput
- Having previously introduced an RFC or design review culture to an engineering org
- Experience with design systems and shared component libraries as a consumer and a contributor
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Meaningful health coverage
- Participants in our stock option plan
- Learning & Development: Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally
- Remote-First Flexibility: We embrace a fully remote work environment
- Mental Health Support Services
- Global & Diverse Team: Opportunity to work with talented professionals from 24+ countries across the world, in a multicultural and collaborative environment
- Global Impact: Part of a team shaping the future of global FinTech and stablecoin accessibility
Additional details
- Located within Africa
- Fully remote team
- This is deliberately not a management role. Your Engineering Manager handles 1:1s, performance, and growth conversations.
- Roughly 90% of your time hands-on
- Technology stack: 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.
- Originally posted on Himalayas
