Team Lead

We are searching for an experienced Team Lead Full Stack Developer to lead our development efforts. Your expertise will drive the creation of cutting‑edge web applications while mentoring junior developers and contributing to technical strategy. You'll be part of a cross‑functional team that is responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full‑stack developer, you should be comfortable with both front‑end and back‑end coding languages, development frameworks and third‑party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. You should have leadership experience as well.

Responsibilities

• Accurately estimate work, revise estimates and provide options to address technical challenges.
• Manage the execution of project and task assignments with developers and the PM team.
• Serve as the technical lead for development and production activities.
• Craft and maintain Statements of Work, project plans, schedules and task breakdowns/modules to achieve defined scopes of work.
• Leverage internal tools, standards and processes in all client work.
• Collaborate with PMs to translate requirements into comprehensive project approaches and plans that align with established timelines and budgets and can be executed successfully by developers.
• Drive satisfaction through repeated project delivery successes and strategic engagement.
• Collaborate with web team members (typically Senior Engineers) in the delivery of the project work and in alignment with established project metrics.
• Conduct regular one‑on‑ones with web developers, emphasizing continuous improvement of project approaches and outcomes.
• Help peers and junior team members debug code or resolve technical problems.
• Implement tools and best practices and act as subject‑matter experts.
• Enhance, re‑architect or write new algorithms for better performance.
• Understand and lead enterprise application design and development in the MERN stack.
• Deploy production codebases in cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Ensure that company coding standards and development practices are followed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Full‑Stack Developer.
• Minimum 2 years of experience as a Team Lead.
• Experience with Typescript, Angular/React, NestJS, Node.js and Express.js.
• Hands‑on experience developing REST APIs.
• Strong debugging and analytical skills.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and AWS components such as S3, EC2, SQS, SNS and Lambda functions.
• Enterprise‑level experience in architecture and development with MERN.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and DynamoDB.
• Experience with Elastic Search, Redis and Memcached.
• Architecting and deploying applications for AWS.
• Container‑based microservice architectures (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Provisioning DevOps tools and continuous integration.
• Building server applications using various open‑source stacks.
• Design, build and operate scalable software systems and services.
• Experience with major architecture patterns.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA/Redmine, Confluence, Git and related tools.
• Familiarity with automated testing frameworks.

Benefits

• Annual Pay Raise – performance‑based increases.
• Quarterly Bonuses – rewards after each productive year.
• Provident Fund & EOBI – contributions to retirement plans.
• Health Insurance – coverage for you and dependents.
• Annual Leaves & Encashment – take time off or receive cash.
• Work‑Hour Flexibility – pause and relax when needed.
• Interest‑Free Loan Facility – avoid high banking interests.
• Annual Recreational Trip – team outings outside the office.

DISCLAIMER: Kwanso is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age or marital status.