Techanical Lead at Heckerbella Limited

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back-end programming and can effectively lead our technical team to achieve our product development objectives. As the tech lead, you will be responsible for providing development updates to stakeholders and management, managing task assignments to members of the tech team, developing and designing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications, and working alongside UI/UX designers for web design features, among other duties.

You will also be required to see a project from conception to final product, which requires good organizational, project management skills, and attention to detail.

Technical Lead Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the architecture, design, code quality, system stability, and reliency of websites and web apps being developed. front end website architecture.
• Meeting with stakeholders and the design team to develop and design user interactions on web pages.
• Understanding the broader context of the team/ projects and help set the technical roadmap of the team.
• Developing back-end website applications and creating servers and databases for functionality when there’s need.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile apps developed by the mobile app developer.
• Working alongside UI/UX designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product and ensuring responsiveness of all developed applications.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.
• Determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Delegating tasks and achieving daily, weekly, and monthly goals of the team.
• Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are completed to standards agreed with the client.
• Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible for all projects.
• Analyzing existing operations, partnering with managers around prioritizations, sprint planning, work divisions and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.
• Updating work schedules and performing troubleshooting as required.
• Motivating staff and creating a space where they can ask questions and voice their concerns.
• Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.
• Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders and management.
• Technical Lead should be flexible enough and be adaptable to the changing and varied work settings.

Technical Lead Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant Management certification is an added advantage.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role would be advantageous.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong leadership and organizational abilities.
• Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients.
• Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Growth mindset and a demonstrated emotional intelligence to collaborate and mentor developers/ managers.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, Next.js and Amber.
• Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python (Django), Javascript (Node.js), PHP (Laravel), and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB