Team Lead - Web Development (Angular)
Clickatell, South Africa
Job Description
Add your voice to the chat revolution:
Are you excited to work for a tech company on the front lines of innovation for some of the biggest brands in the world? Do you thrive in environments where challenging the status quo is the daily norm? If you’re an A-player with energy, initiative, and focus on delivering top results, or as we refer to our colleagues at Clickatell a Champion then read on.
At Clickatell, we’re upending the way companies connect, engage, and transact with their customers in chat. Chat is something you do every day with your friends, but it’s also a simple technology that we’ve helped our customers to use to accomplish pretty amazing things. Clickatell helps businesses power customer support, customer engagement, and payments all through chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Our customers are some of the most admired and recognizable companies in the world and our communications technology is used to reach more than 15,000 global brands every year. Our jobs offer you a chance to grow your career and work with global teams on technology that is quite simply changing the world.
We could tell you about our great coffee, cool digs, super flexible work-life integration, and amazing benefits, but these won’t convince you to come work with us. If you want to test yourself, work on meaningful projects in a fast-paced environment, and be where every day presents new possibilities, come join one of the greatest global tech companies. We want you!
This year marks our 20th anniversary an achievement that’s about great vision and execution, but much more. We’ve grown by combining curious minds and quick smiles with a collaborative company culture where we never quit or settle, and always strive to create solutions that will change the world. It’s a big proposition, but it’s a mission our team takes on every day in an environment that provides you with the freedom to create and innovate, while having fun at the same time. We’re a fanatically friendly group that listens and puts each other first to accomplish great things together for our customers, our communities, and Clickatell.
Purpose:
Are you interested in building products used by millions of people? Do you wish you could launch code daily? Are you looking to work on an enterprise-grade transaction platform hosted in cloud environments?
You will be joining an agile team of developers who are passionate about the products they build. We enable our clients to transact and engage with their customers seamlessly (on a global scale via channels like WhatsApp, Google RCS, etc). Clickatell is looking for a talented and ambitious team leads that are passionate about leading teams that build high performing applications (low latency, high transaction volumes) across multiple platforms.
We have a great company culture where we deeply value collaboration. Our environment allows you freedom to lead and innovate while having fun at the same time. We believe that everyone has a say in the way we build products and solutions, regardless of their skills or experience.
This is an opportunity to join an energetic, fast paced, dynamic, Sequoia* backed company, offering ample growth opportunities and exciting challenges.
Career amp; personal growth opportunities within Clickatell are unusually high, fuelled by a team of Champions who drive growth. At Clickatell we invest in career development of our people and work closely with you on making your career goals a reality.
*Sequoia played a role in the funding of YouTube, Apple, Google and other exciting companies.
The role of our Champion:
- Work with an awesome geographically distributed team of engineers, designers, and product managers to implement the next generation of products and/or features
- Work independently and collaborate on projects developing applications from scratch, as well as maintaining and improving existing applications
- Lead teams to:
- Build applications that can scale (thousands of users and accounts)
- Develop software iteratively and deliver working code each iteration, including authoring relevant documentation and test cases
- Be responsible for:
- Supporting your technical manager in delivering success
- Collaborating with key internal stakeholders including Products, Design, Marketing, Support and Sales
- Leading the team to achieving success and attaining the goals set out by management
- Assisting the team in coming up with solutions and strategies on order to attain goals as set out by management
- Mentoring team members to achieve their goals as set out by management
- Monitoring team members' participation and collect feedback from the team to provide guidance
- Identifying and escalating matters to management where needed
- Driving and leading optimal implementation, debugg