Technical Team Lead
Yellow Card supplies licensed stablecoin payment rails covering treasury, cross-border payments and liquidity for businesses across African markets.
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About Yellow Card
Yellow Card helps businesses expand across Africa through stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure. Users can buy, sell, and store digital assets using local currencies, manage treasury operations, and access cross-border payment solutions. Yellow Card serves as both an on/off ramp and payments API provider across emerging markets.
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About the Role
Own end-to-end architecture for commercial systems, lead design reviews and engineering standards, implement high-risk features across Vue and TypeScript services, set quality and observability standards, lead incident response, mentor engineers, partner on technical planning, maintain documentation, and interview candidates.
Requirements
- 7+ years building and running production systems.
- At least 2 years as a tech lead, staff engineer, or equivalent technical anchor.
- Full-stack experience across frontend and backend systems.
- Deep AWS experience with serverless and event-driven architecture.
- Expert-level TypeScript and solid Vue 3 experience or ability to learn it quickly.
- Experience leading architecture and adopting engineering standards.
- Experience improving existing codebases through migration, deprecation, and debt reduction.
- Experience owning on-call responsibilities and leading incidents.
- Strong understanding of API design, REST conventions, versioning, and client-server contracts.
- Excellent written communication and mentorship ability.
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Responsibilities
- Own Commercial Pod architecture, including service boundaries, data models, event flows, and frontend-service contracts.
- Lead design documentation, review sessions, engineering standards adoption, and RFC participation.
- Implement high-risk production features across Vue 3 and TypeScript services.
- Set engineering quality, testing, observability, reliability, and fault-tolerance standards.
- Own production health, monitoring, SLOs, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Participate in the technical lead support rota.
- Mentor engineers and partner with the Product Manager on technical planning.
- Run knowledge-sharing sessions and maintain technical documentation.
- Interview candidates and uphold the pod's technical bar.
Benefits
- Meaningful health coverage
- Stock option plan for all full-time employees
- Fully remote work environment
- Mental health support services
- Learning and development resources, support, and autonomy