Storyteq

Senior Full Stack Engineer – Team Lead

Storyteq

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cape Town • South Africa

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

GraphQLJavaScriptLaravelNode.jsNoSQLPHPSQLTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

  • **Key Responsibilities**
  • **Engineering Responsibilities**
  • - Build and ship robust backend services and frontends with real product impact
  • - Ensure systems are scalable, performant and maintainable
  • - Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end‑to‑end value
  • - Model business domains into clean, performant data structures
  • - Contribute to architectural design and communicate trade‑offs effectively
  • **Team Lead Responsibilities**
  • - Coach and mentor engineers to help them grow technically and professionally
  • - Lead technical delivery for initiatives within a domain or project
  • - Facilitate predictable planning, prioritisation and delivery in an agile environment
  • - Foster psychological safety, inclusion and a sustainable team culture
  • - Identify and address conflicts early and constructively
  • - Provide clear feedback, performance support and career development guidance

Requirements

  • **Core Technical Requirements**
  • - 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering full‑stack products with TypeScript/JavaScript and PHP (Laravel)
  • - Strong backend development experience with Node.js and/or PHP (Laravel)
  • - Experience with Vue.js or another modern front-end framework
  • - Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
  • - Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
  • - Proficient in data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases
  • - Familiar with testing best practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
  • - Strong architectural thinking and ability to communicate trade-offs clearly
  • **Team Leadership Requirements**
  • - Experience leading and coaching engineers, including feedback and performance support
  • - Ability to plan, prioritise and deliver predictably within an agile context
  • - Conflict‑resolution skills to surface and address issues constructively
  • - Proactive, results-driven and comfortable working in a fast-growing tech scale-up
  • - Strong communication skills (written and verbal) in English
Benefits
  • **We Value Diversity**** **We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.** **We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.** **At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.** **ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptJavaScriptPHPLaravelNode.jsVue.jsREST APIsGraphQL APIsSQLNoSQL
Soft Skills
coachingmentoringtechnical deliveryplanningprioritisationconflict resolutioncommunicationpsychological safetyinclusionteam culture