50 Engineering jobs in Northern Cape

Why Clipboard Health Exists:

We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives, by letting healthcare professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals, allowing healthcare professionals to book on-demand shifts and healthcare facilities to access on-demand talent. Our mission is to enable healthcare professionals to work when and where they want, and to enable healthcare facilities to meet their talent needs.

About Clipboard Health:

Clipboard Health is a post-Series C, extremely fast-growing tech startup with classic two-sided network effects, revolutionizing the market for healthcare talent. We are a diverse and inclusive company with a global, remote team. We have been named one of YC’s Top Companies for two years running, and have grown 25x across all key metrics in the last 18 months. There has never been a more exciting time to join our growing team and help us serve even more healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities, who can then better serve patients. To learn more about the culture at Clipboard Health, take a look at our culture hub here.

We are a globally distributed team with folks from the United States, Canada, Chile, Mongolia, Turkey, India, Madagascar, Ukraine, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia… and more. Our values center around customer centricity, urgency, curiosity, and ownership. We are all empowered to fix the problems we see, there are no “toes” to be stepped on. A team went off and created a new SaaS product, another team rewrote a core service under a new architecture. We believe in our collective mission and do what it takes to move the needle on that goal.

What you’ll do

• You will be responsible for your team’s process, delivery, and execution. Ensuring that the team can work optimally and with high quality.
• You will partner with product managers, and our customers, to create your team’s roadmap.
• While you may not be involved in day-to-day coding, you will be reviewing your team’s work and providing technical guidance and coaching. This involves reviewing PRs, architecture and design documents and ensuring that the output of your team is of high quality and solves the customer’s problems.
• You will be responsible for managing your team’s performance. This means proactively identifying and rectifying the impact of low performance and giving immediate and actionable feedback.
• We value a growth mindset, and as an engineering manager, you will be responsible for helping your engineers grow to their full potential.
• Every individual at Clipboard Health has an impact on the business. As an Engineering Manager, we will look to you for input on streamlining our engineering processes, helping craft our goals, and raising the bar for the technical teams at the company. At Clipboard Health we say “We don’t have any toes to step on”. If you see a problem, you fix it.
• As a fast-paced team that is constantly growing, you will participate in all stages of the hiring process.
• We give constant feedback and highly value transparency. You’ll have a lot of conversations in open forums, and as a curious team that values “first-principles thinking”, you can expect questions and feedback on these conversations.

What you bring to the table

• At least 6 years of software development experience and 2+ years of experience leading software development professionals (either as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead or Founder)
• Experience leading agile and high-performing teams in a fast-paced, geographically dispersed environment.
• Ability to identify and manage performance issues swiftly as well as coaching skills to empower developers at various levels. You must be comfortable with having difficult conversations, addressing problems head-on, and being decisive about outcomes.
• A deep appreciation for customers and the ability to navigate ambiguous customer problems and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Able to break down problems and solutions into their component parts and explain each component to fellow engineers and non-technical stakeholders rather than relying on reasoning by proxy or relying on best practices
• Hands-on development and system design experience.
• Ability to work equally well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with growing teams: hiring, retaining, and onboarding top talent.

Why Clipboard Health?

• 100% remote, flexible working hours.
• Unlimited PTO
• Async first, with sync collaboration as it’s needed.
• This is a high-impact role. From the hiring, onboarding, team execution, and talent practices to customer impact, new verticals, and technical uplevelling of the team: there’s room for improvement on it all, and we are looking for people who want to build the new era of Clipboard Health with us.

Introduction

This position will be based at Koedoeskloof, Griekwastad in the Northern Cape.

Description

The purpose of this position is to assist with housekeeping and engineering maintenance activities under instruction from the Artisan/ Engineering Supervisor.

Qualification Requirements

• Matric (Grade 12) or an equivalent qualification registered at NQF Level 4, including relevant NATED courses (e.g., N3 Certificate)

Experience and Skills Requirements

• 1 Year experience and knowledge within the mining industry is preferred
• English language proficiency
• Knowledge of workplace safety and procedures
• Familiar with risk assessments and procedures
• Time management

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lifts, holds, positions and supports parts and materials being worked on, either manually or with appropriate tools as required
• Assists with dismantling and re-assembling of components as per instruction
• Loads and off -loads materials and parts onto and from transport vehicles as required
• Lifts, carries and moves materials to and from storage areas by hand or non-self-propelled equipment
• Assists with installations and breakdowns where services are required under instruction from the Artisan or Engineering Supervisor
• Performs general housekeeping duties
• Performs observing role when instructed by Artisan / Engineering Supervisor, e.g. fire watch check for burning conveyors or checking pipeline for leaks etc.

Why Clipboard Health Exists:

We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives, by letting healthcare professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals, allowing healthcare professionals to book on-demand shifts and healthcare facilities to access on-demand talent. Our mission is to enable healthcare professionals to work when and where they want, and to enable healthcare facilities to meet their talent needs.

About Clipboard Health:

Clipboard Health is a post-Series C, extremely fast-growing tech startup with classic two-sided network effects, revolutionizing the market for healthcare talent. We are a diverse and inclusive company with a global, remote team. We have been named one of YC’s Top Companies for two years running, and have grown 25x across all key metrics in the last 18 months. There has never been a more exciting time to join our growing team and help us serve even more healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities, who can then better serve patients. To learn more about the culture at Clipboard Health, take a look at our culture hub here.

We are a globally distributed team with folks from the United States, Canada, Chile, Mongolia, Turkey, India, Madagascar, Ukraine, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia… and more. Our values center around customer centricity, urgency, curiosity, and ownership. We are all empowered to fix the problems we see, there are no “toes” to be stepped on. A team went off and created a new SaaS product, another team rewrote a core service under a new architecture. We believe in our collective mission and do what it takes to move the needle on that goal.

What you’ll do

• You will be responsible for your team’s process, delivery, and execution. Ensuring that the team can work optimally and with high quality.
• You will partner with product managers, and our customers, to create your team’s roadmap.
• While you may not be involved in day-to-day coding, you will be reviewing your team’s work and providing technical guidance and coaching. This involves reviewing PRs, architecture and design documents and ensuring that the output of your team is of high quality and solves the customer’s problems.
• You will be responsible for managing your team’s performance. This means proactively identifying and rectifying the impact of low performance and giving immediate and actionable feedback.
• We value a growth mindset, and as an engineering manager, you will be responsible for helping your engineers grow to their full potential.
• Every individual at Clipboard Health has an impact on the business. As an Engineering Manager, we will look to you for input on streamlining our engineering processes, helping craft our goals, and raising the bar for the technical teams at the company. At Clipboard Health we say “We don’t have any toes to step on”. If you see a problem, you fix it.
• As a fast-paced team that is constantly growing, you will participate in all stages of the hiring process.
• We give constant feedback and highly value transparency. You’ll have a lot of conversations in open forums, and as a curious team that values “first-principles thinking”, you can expect questions and feedback on these conversations.

What you bring to the table

• At least 6 years of software development experience and 2+ years of experience leading software development professionals (either as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead or Founder)
• Experience leading agile and high-performing teams in a fast-paced, geographically dispersed environment.
• Ability to identify and manage performance issues swiftly as well as coaching skills to empower developers at various levels. You must be comfortable with having difficult conversations, addressing problems head-on, and being decisive about outcomes.
• A deep appreciation for customers and the ability to navigate ambiguous customer problems and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Able to break down problems and solutions into their component parts and explain each component to fellow engineers and non-technical stakeholders rather than relying on reasoning by proxy or relying on best practices
• Hands-on development and system design experience.
• Ability to work equally well with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with growing teams: hiring, retaining, and onboarding top talent.

Why Clipboard Health?

• 100% remote, flexible working hours.
• Unlimited PTO
• Async first, with sync collaboration as it’s needed.
• This is a high-impact role. From the hiring, onboarding, team execution, and talent practices to customer impact, new verticals, and technical uplevelling of the team: there’s room for improvement on it all, and we are looking for people who want to build the new era of Clipboard Health with us.

Purpose of your role as an Engineering Team Lead

As an Engineering Team Lead, you will be working alongside other engineers and collaborating with product stakeholders, making sure work is planned, delivered incrementally, and with quality built-in. You will support and coach other engineers, actively enabling them to grow based on their particular interests.

Our tech stack

• TypeScript, Node.js, React, Golang, PSQL
• GraphQL, REST
• Pulumi, AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, Fastly, New Relic, Github actions

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate closely with product stakeholders to prioritize and plan projects that add real value to our users
• Work with the team on strategy and execution, delivering testable, maintainable, and high-quality solutions
• Help engineers identify and grow in their areas of interest by coaching, mentoring, and giving timely feedback
• Participate in and identify architectural improvements, prioritize and act on them
• Bring creative ideas and expertise to the table, having a real impact on our product and engineering practices
• Work in an environment that supports your individual growth

Expectations timeline

1 Month

You have gone through different onboarding sessions covering our product, current architecture, and relevant services we run on production, learned about the company’s origin and current vision, and met colleagues from different departments as part of onboarding as well as weekly virtual social events.

You’d have started to get to know your teammates, learned how we work daily and contributed to our codebase.

3 Months

You will be familiar with most concepts related to our product and worked alongside your teammates to deliver features and improvements on production successfully.

You’d have had a few 1:1s with your team members to check in on how things are going and you will have collaborated with fellow engineers to improve our architecture and developer experience.

6 Months

You will have made solid contributions to our product and stack, influenced our ways of working, shared knowledge and previous experiences, helping substantially with important decision-making.

What we expect from you:

• 8+ years of backend development experience, ideally using Golang
• Experience writing testable code, following best practices and design patterns when applicable
• Experience developing APIs, ideally using GraphQL and/or REST
• Mindful about performance and able to measure it meaningfully
• Strong expertise in analyzing product requirements and creating technical designs
• Experience mentoring and coaching other teammates to grow and improve continuously
• At least 2 years of experience leading a team, covering people and delivery management
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to take ownership, but also ask for help and advice when needed
• Openness to feedback and willingness to learn, reflect, and grow within the organization
• Experience in successfully driving technical, business, and people-related initiatives that improved productivity, performance, and quality

The Process

• Intro call with Talent Acquisition
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interview
• Team Fit call
• Reference Check and Offer

The response time is usually within 1-2 week for each step. You could expect some alterations when necessary.

About us

At Hygraph we’re building the leading GraphQL Federated Content Platform. Our goal is to enable developers and content operators to create, enrich, unify, and deliver content across platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Telenor, Burrow, Gamescom, and Shure. With over $10M in funding from OpenOcean, Peak, and Paua Ventures, you will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team of over 60 colleagues, committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately.

Hygraph is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace’s productivity and promote innovation and creativity.

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. Check out remote.com/how-it-works to learn more or if you’re interested in adding to the mission, scroll down to apply now.

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A Team Leader is responsible for all the work of a team and the spokesperson for everyone in it. They are expected to manage the team dynamics and always bring the best in everyone. A team leader is not expected to be the best in a team but rather help others become the best version there is and gear the team towards optimised execution.

• Manage a small product team of 3-5 engineers (backend and frontend).
• 30% of the time spent doing management work. Outside of that actively participates in product development in their team.
• Be involved in hiring processes for their own team and potentially help out their peers.
• In addition to being involved in hiring, also being responsible for the onboarding process of new engineers.
• By being the spokesperson for everyone in their team they are expected to manage the team dynamics and bring out the best in them.
• Giving continuous and constructive feedback on all the things.
• Helps the team to grow continuously as a group and is responsible for each direct report’s career.
• Provide guidance and coaching to the team.

• Managed an engineering team of at least 2 people.
• Extensive experience with Frontend (React, JS, ES6 and Jest) or Backend (Elixir/Phoenix).
• Commitment to promoting all of Remote's values within the team and the greater organisation.
• Solid knowledge of engineering and development principles and best practices.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Focused on efficient processes with a kind, people-first approach.
• Being able to inspire others and instill confidence.
• Good understanding of team dynamics.
• Ambitious and intentional about diversity, equality and inclusion.

• You'll report to: Engineering Manager
• Location : Anywhere in the world
• Start date: As soon as possible

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is USD 73,150 to USD 164,600. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits . As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async .

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Overview

Drive pace, focus, and high-quality output in a fast-moving remote engineering team.

Engineering & Delivery | Remote, South Africa | UK Hours (9am6pm)

Our client is a rapidly scaling tech company with a remote-first approach and a laser focus on delivering excellent digital products. Their mission is to move fast, build well, and empower small squads of engineers and product professionals to execute with clarity and speed.

Working in a dynamic, high-paced environment, the company places strong emphasis on ownership, agility, and results. This is an opportunity to be at the heart of a lean, impactful team where your ability to drive delivery will make a real difference.

Engineering Delivery Lead

As Engineering Delivery Lead, your role is to sharpen the delivery muscle of one or more engineering squads. Part team coach, part project manager, and part delivery enabler, you will ensure the right work gets done quickly, clearly, and to a high standard.

You'll own daily execution, guide delivery practices, remove blockers, and hold the team to account on pace and quality. This is a hands-on role where you'll influence both people and process to help the team stay aligned, prioritised, and productive.

• Own day-to-day delivery operations for one or more engineering squads
• Run Agile ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Hold engineers accountable for delivery commitments and output quality
• Maintain momentum by identifying blockers early and clearing risks
• Drive prioritisation efforts with engineers and product managers
• Coach engineers on estimation, focus, and delivery habits
• Keep delivery tools (e.g., Linear, Slack) up to date and well used
• Provide regular, structured progress updates to leadership
• Line manage engineers including 1:1s and performance feedback

• 3+ years experience in a Delivery Lead, Engineering Manager, Scrum Master, or similar role
• Strong background in Agile delivery within a startup or high-growth environment
• Confident in driving stand-ups, retrospectives, and planning sessions
• Strong grasp of engineering team dynamics and delivery best practices
• Excellent communication and prioritisation skills
• Able to provide candid feedback and hold team members accountable
• Highly organised, persuasive, and focused on results
• Based in South Africa, available to work 9am6pm UK time

• Prior experience line-managing engineers
• Familiarity with Linear and Slack
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Exposure to product management or product operations

Lifecheq is a fintech company aiming to provide the global emerging middle class with quality holistic financial advice. Our platform combines smart tech, deep financial expertise, and a unique approach to financial advice. We're growing rapidly, backed by major investors including Summit Africa, Futuregrowth, African Rainbow Capital, and Naspers Foundry.

As we scale, we believe that engineering management is fundamentally about creating the conditions for exceptional teams to thrive. The Engineering Manager role sits at the heart of this philosophy - bridging the crucial gap between technical excellence and human potential. You'll shape not just what we build, but how we build it and who we become as an engineering organisation.

Our fully remote team primarily uses Clojure for backends and a mixture of ClojureScript and TypeScript for frontends. We're organised as cross-functional agile squads with engineers, financial experts, designers, and product managers.

As Engineering Manager, you'll sit at the crucial intersection between people leadership and delivery enablement, reporting to our SVP Engineering. You'll have direct line management for 7-9 engineers across 3-4 squads whilst partnering with Tech Leads and Product Managers to ensure effective delivery.

Own the career development of your direct reports through clear performance expectations, regular 1:1s, and targeted coaching. Foster an engineering culture of excellence, learning, and psychological safety whilst representing the engineering team in cross-functional forums.

Partner with Tech Leads and Product Managers to navigate trade-offs, remove blockers, and maintain quality standards. Support prioritisation with business context, facilitate cross-squad dependencies, and ensure predictable delivery cadences.

Lead hiring processes from definition through onboarding, making key hiring decisions whilst building our engineering talent pipeline and employer brand.

You're an experienced engineering leader with an intense interest in understanding people and helping them be more effective in teams. You've had a positive effect on others' careers and know how to repeat that success. You've learned from tough people experiences and worked effectively with people very different from yourself.

• 10+ years professional software development experience

• Prior engineering management experience with proven people development track record

• Experience supporting delivery across multiple technical workstreams

• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organisational dynamics

• Experience with performance management and career development

• Track record of improving delivery predictability whilst balancing technical debt with feature delivery

• Experience with Clojure and/or JavaScript environments (helps you offer more specific guidance)

• Background in fintech or adjacent regulated industries

• Experience scaling engineering teams during rapid growth periods

• History of successfully working in matrix organisational structures

• Team Health : Improved retention, engagement scores, and team satisfaction

• Delivery Performance : Increased predictability, velocity, and quality metrics

• Leadership Effectiveness : Reduced escalations to senior leadership

• Talent Development : Growth in technical and leadership capabilities within your team

• Recruitment Success : Effective time-to-fill, quality of hires, and onboarding

Lifecheq values technical depth, autonomy, and clear thinking. You'll be part of a capable team that enjoys solving hard problems together and takes pride in doing things properly. It's a collaborative, engineering-driven environment where well-reasoned decisions carry weight and your ideas will be taken seriously.

This is a fully remote role requiring fluency in English and availability during core hours (10:00-16:00 GMT+2). For South African residents, this will be a permanent position; otherwise, a contract arrangement.

We take the development of our people very seriously and will work with you to carve out your success plan, accelerate your career, and make a real difference in the lives of real people seeking better lives.