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Overview

Lead Engineer role at Priority Pass. This is a hands-on, technical leadership position within a squad of around 5-7 engineers, reporting to an Engineering Manager and collaborating with a Product Manager to build and launch new products and services.

Technologies include modern cloud-native stacks (TypeScript, AWS, GraphQL). You will design, code, and solve complex problems, shaping the direction of the team and embedding AI, automation, and best-in-class engineering practices into everything you develop.

• Lead the design & development of scalable, high-performance software solutions across client-side and server-side applications.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding the squad on code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
• Spend significant time on hands-on engineering: writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software.
• Collaborate with UX to build user interfaces and develop well-functioning APIs and services.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
• Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD to ensure secure and reliable deployments.

• Past Experience: Currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers.
• API & Database Development: Experience building robust, always-on APIs (RESTful and GraphQL) and underlying services/apps, including databases.
• Test-Driven Development: Familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.
• Cloud & DevOps: End-to-end system development and operation; experience with Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD: Experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for deployments.
• Self-Starter & Problem-Solver: Ability to translate product challenges into working technical solutions with pragmatism and engineering excellence.
• Observability: Experience with DataDog or similar for system health visibility.
• Tooling & Collaboration: Proficient with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers at all levels, providing guidance and design reviews.

• Stage 1 – Screening call with recruitment to discuss Collinson values and role alignment.
• Stage 2 – Short technical call with an Engineering Manager to discuss team, projects, and suitability for the role.
• Stage 3 – At-home technical test; review of solution and approach.
• Stage 4 – Final 1-hour interview with multiple team members, including the Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer; discussion of the technical test and design decisions.
• Stage 5 – 30-minute discussion with Head of Architecture & Engineering.

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll be the technical backbone of your squad (of around 5-7 engineers) - leading from the front, writing code daily, and setting the standard for high-quality engineering. You’ll work side by side with an Engineering Manager, ensuring your squad is delivering scalable, well-architected software, while collaborating closely with a Product Manager to build and launch new products and services as a partnership.

This is a hands-on role, with a strong focus on designing, coding, and problem-solving. You’ll be the most experienced engineer in the squad, responsible for refining technical requirements, making key architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers to help them grow.

With modern, cloud-native technologies (including Typescript, AWS, GraphQL) and the freedom to approach problems with fresh thinking, you’ll be building greenfield systems from the ground up. Expect to embed AI, automation, and best-in-class engineering practices into everything you develop.

If you love writing great code, solving complex technical challenges, and shaping the direction of a team, this role gives you the autonomy, responsibility, and impact to do just that.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Design & Development - Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications.
• Technical Leadership - Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance.
• Hands-On Engineering - Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software.
• Full Stack Development - Build any necessary user-interfaces in collaboration with our UX team, and develop well-functioning APIs, and services.
• Mentorship & Coaching - Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads.
• Quality & Testing - Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Tech stack - We use TypeScript (Node.js & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo. You’re comfortable with all of these, and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerised applications.
• Past Experience - You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers.
• API & Database Development - You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them.
• Test-Driven Development - You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact.
• Cloud & DevOps - You can build, deploy and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm.
• CI/CD - You have plenty experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments.
• Self-Starter & Problem-Solver - Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence.

• Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. You’ve worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health.
• Tooling & Collaboration - Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows.
• Mentorship & Leadership - You’ve mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track.

Interview Process:

We want our process to be fair and transparent, so it’s only right that we tell you what the various interview stages are:

Stage 1 – We'll do a screener call with our recruitment team, where you can learn a bit more about Collinson, our values and we can confirm what you’re looking for in a new role.

Stage 2 – We'll do a short call with one of our Engineering Managers for around 30 minutes, who will tell you more about the team, our projects and ask questions about your career history and suitability for the role.

Stage 3 – You will do a technical test (at home), and we’ll review your solution and approach to it.

Stage 4 – This is final and main stage, where we’ll meet you for 1h, and you’ll get to spend time with different members of the engineering team including Engineering Manager and the Principal Engineer. We’ll also go through your technical test and ask questions on some of your design decisions, architectural and technical implementation.

Stage 5 - 30 minute discussion with our Head of Architecture & Engineering

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example - she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

Carry1st is Africa's leading games publisher and monetisation platform, helping top global companies grow their player base and revenue across Africa and the Middle East. We launch, localise, and scale games for global audiences, operate the region's fastest-growing digital top-up web shop, and offer a payments platform that boosts revenue by up to 10x in markets with low card usage but high demand for digital content.

Our partners include Activision, EA, Riot Games, and Netease. Backed by investors like a16z, Bitkraft, Google, Konvoy, Sony, Riot Games, and Nas, we're solving hard problems at the intersection of gaming, fintech, and digital commerce.

As a
Lead Engineer
of the Shop Team you will be responsible for leading the delivery of our Carry1st Shop. This role will provide you an opportunity to evolve and grow our Carry1st Shop across multiple distribution channels.

In this role, you will gain knowledge of how the gaming industry works from a monetisation perspective, and also be able to work with different gaming partners at different points of the Carry1st journey. This opportunity will also provide you the experience of joining a technical journey to scale the platform to be used by millions of African and Middle Eastern gamers.

You will.

• Collaborate closely with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and convert these into technical requirements for the development team
• Lead the development team in the design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring and maintenance phases of our engineering process
• Write testable, scalable and efficient code as well as conducting regular code reviews
• Promote development best practices and continue to improve these by partnering with our Senior Staff Engineers and CTO
• Perform line management duties and grow the engineering careers of your direct reports

Requirements
What makes you a great candidate?

• You have proven success as a team lead. You can collaborate with non engineering (sometimes non English speaking) stakeholders really well and know what it takes to lead teams through software delivery
• Strong system design skills. You are able to consistently design scalable features and document these efficiently for the team
• Strong knowledge of Full Stack Software Development. Our stack uses , Java, Spring, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and AWS. You know how to write scalable software and review code efficiently
• Experience with E-commerce related frameworks and tools related to Analytics, CMS, Experimentation, Localisation
• Strong project management skills using Scrum. You know the purpose of each Scrum ceremony well, how to measure the effectiveness of your team and how to manage the scrum backlog effectively with your product manager

Benefits
What will it be like to work at Carry1st?
Carry1st is a fast-paced and dynamic place to work. Our team is diverse and global as we operate fully-remotely across 25+ countries. At Carry1st, you will have the opportunity to.

• Build awesome, industry-changing products, every day
• Grow with a VC-backed startup at the intersection of gaming and fintech
• Work from anywhere in the world with international teammates
• Own shares in the Company - enabling you to benefit from the value you create

Some Additional Perks.

• Co-working excursions: Travel to meet your colleagues in cities around the world
• Awesome equipment: Get everything you need to work effectively
• Remote working allowance: Put an additional $600 / year to optimise your WFH experience
• Learning and development: Attend courses, conferences and training events
• Social events: Participate in regular company events to relax and connect with teammates
• Birthday leave: Enjoy a paid day off on your special day

We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. Join us

Learn More About Carry1st.

• Andreessen Horowitz shared why they invested in Carry1st
• VentureBeat announced that Carry1st has raised $27 million to develop and publish mobile games in Africa
• Remerge hosted Cordel on a podcast to discuss Carry1st and the African gaming market

Job Description:

The 
Project Engineer Team Lead

plays a pivotal role in leading a team of skilled engineers to deliver complex and innovative technology projects for our clients. This position combines strong technical expertise with people leadership, project oversight, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes. You will serve as the escalation point for complex technical issues, guide the successful execution of projects, and drive continuous improvement across engineering processes and team performance. 

The ideal candidate has at least 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience and 2+ years of leadership or team coordination, preferably within a Managed Services Provider (MSP) environment. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of Project Engineers, ensuring individual development and collective success.
• Oversee and coordinate the execution of technology projects, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and above client expectations.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex deployments or troubleshooting.
• Standardize and improve engineering workflows, documentation practices, and technical quality assurance.
• Collaborate with Project Managers and stakeholders to align resources and project timelines.
• Monitor teamwork and performance, providing feedback and identifying training needs.
• Participate in and, when necessary, lead client-facing meetings and technical reviews.
• Maintain a hands-on role in key technological implementations and complex configurations.
• Maintain Billability utilization target of 70%
• Champion a culture of accountability, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.

Job Qualifications:

• Proven ability to design, implement, and troubleshoot infrastructure solutions, including firewalls, servers, networking, and cloud platforms.
• Advanced experience with Microsoft technologies, including:
• Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS/DHCP
• Hyper-V, Azure AD, EntraID, O365 apps (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive)
• Email migration (e.g., on-prem to O365 using BitTitan or similar tools)
• MDM platforms (Intune, MaaS360)
• Familiarity with:
• VMWare ESXi, Nutanix Acropolis
• Networking hardware (Cisco, Dell), Firewalls (Fortinet, SonicWall), and WAPs (Meraki, Ubiquiti)
• NAS storage (QNAP, Synology, Dell)
• Experience using PSA tools (e.g., ConnectWise) and RMM platforms (e.g., Automate, Kaseya) is preferred.

Job Requirements:

• A home office set up that meets the following:
• Computer: A working computer with a minimum of 8GB RAM and one of the following:
• Windows 11 with an Intel i5 or i7 (8th generation or newer), or
• AMD Ryzen 5 or series or newer), or
• macOS 12 or newer.
• Internet: Stable internet connection with at least 5 Mbps download and upload speeds.
• Audio Equipment: A quality headset with a noise-cancellation feature for meetings.
• Mobile Device: A smartphone capable of installing the Microsoft Authenticator app.
• Webcam: An HD webcam for video calls.
• 2nd Monitor
• UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) if using a desktop (Not needed if using a laptop)
• A very strong cultural fit the ITS way (Our core values will be discussed during the interview)
• Excellent command of the English language both spoken and written
• Able to work full time 40 hrs. a week: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM PST (Monday to Friday)
• Able to pass our online behavior and cognitive assessments.
• Preferably, at least two of the following certifications: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, 3cx Basic Certified Engineer.
• Able to provide NBI Clearance (for PH applicants).

Compensation:

Pay rate starts at 
$16.88/hr

and may vary by experience and location.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Plans / HMO (Employee & Dependent/s)
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Benefit Reimbursement (Dental/Vision/Mental Health/Wellness/Government Contributions)
• Paid Time Off (starts at 15 days per year)
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Paid US Holiday
• Night Shift Bonus
• Salary Advancement/Loan
• Health & Wellness Program
• Company-paid training and certification

Purpose of the job

As a Lead Engineer, you'll be the technical backbone of your squad (of around 5-7 engineers) - leading from the front, writing code daily, and setting the standard for high-quality engineering. You'll work side by side with an Engineering Manager, ensuring your squad is delivering scalable, well-architected software, while collaborating closely with a Product Manager to build and launch new products and services as a partnership.

This is a hands-on role, with a strong focus on designing, coding, and problem-solving. You'll be the most experienced engineer in the squad, responsible for refining technical requirements, making key architectural decisions, and mentoring engineers to help them grow.

With modern, cloud-native technologies (including Typescript, AWS, GraphQL) and the freedom to approach problems with fresh thinking, you'll be building greenfield systems from the ground up. Expect to embed AI, automation, and best-in-class engineering practices into everything you develop.

If you love writing great code, solving complex technical challenges, and shaping the direction of a team, this role gives you the autonomy, responsibility, and impact to do just that.

Key responsibilitie

• sLead the Design & Development - Architect, build, and deploy scalable, high-performance software solutions, covering both client-side and server-side applications
• .Technical Leadership - Guide the squad in technical decision-making, ensuring the team follows best practices in code quality, design patterns, architecture, security, and performance
• .Hands-On Engineering - Spend most of your time writing and reviewing code, designing APIs, and ensuring high-quality, maintainable software
• .Full Stack Development - Build any necessary user-interfaces in collaboration with our UX team, and develop well-functioning APIs, and services
• .Mentorship & Coaching - Support and mentor engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence
• .Cloud & Infrastructure - Deploy and manage applications on AWS using Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads
• .Quality & Testing - Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), automated testing, and CI/CD, ensuring deployments are secure and reliable

.Knowledge, Skills and Experienc

• eTech stack - We use TypeScript & React), AWS (EKS, Lambda, Aurora RDS), Kubernetes, GraphQL, Kafka, Mongo. You're comfortable with all of these, and have extensive knowledge of JavaScript more generally, the AWS ecosystem, and running containerised applications
• .Past Experience - You are currently a Lead Engineer or Tech Lead, leading a small team of software engineers
• .API & Database Development - You have experience building and running robust, always-on APIs (both RESTful and GraphQL-based) and underlying services/apps including the databases that underpin them
• .Test-Driven Development - You're very familiar with testing frameworks such as Jest and Pact
• .Cloud & DevOps - You can build, deploy and run your systems end-to-end, with no manual configuration or intervention. We use Terraform and Helm
• .CI/CD - You have plenty experience managing and configuring CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions) for deployments
• .Self-Starter & Problem-Solver - Ability to take a product challenge and develop a working technical solution, balancing pragmatism with engineering excellence
• .Observability Mindset - You believe in measuring everything. You've worked with DataDog (or similar) to ensure your team has the necessary visibility into system health
• .Tooling & Collaboration - Comfortable working with Git, Confluence, Jira, and modern engineering workflows
• .Mentorship & Leadership - You've mentored engineers at all levels, providing guidance, reviewing designs, and ensuring your team stays on the right track

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Interview Proces**

s:We want our process to be fair and transparent, so it's only right that we tell you what the various interview stages ar

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e.Stage 2 – We'll do a short call with one of our Engineering Managers for around 30 minutes, who will tell you more about the team, our projects and ask questions about your career history and suitability for the rol

e.Stage 3 – You will do a technical test (at home), and we'll review your solution and approach to i

t.Stage 4 – This is final and main stage, where we'll meet you for 1h, and you'll get to spend time with different members of the engineering team including Engineering Manager and the Principal Engineer. We'll also go through your technical test and ask questions on some of your design decisions, architectural and technical implementatio

n.Stage minute discussion with our Head of Architecture & Engineeri

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A leading Independent Power Producer (IPP) is seeking an experienced Senior Project Engineer to take on a pivotal role in delivering some of the largest utility-scale solar PV projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. This position offers the chance to lead projects across their full lifecycle, starting from early technical concept and design, through procurement and construction, all the way to commissioning and operations.

You will be at the center of project delivery, shaping technical strategy, engaging with key stakeholders, and ensuring systems are built to world-class standards of safety, performance, and reliability. Senior professionals will find this role rewarding if they are looking for both technical depth and project leadership, with the opportunity to directly influence large-scale renewable energy projects that are reshaping the energy sector.

Core Responsibilities

• Take ownership of technical delivery across utility-scale solar PV projects, from concept development through to operational handover.
• Direct engineering design, including system layout, performance modelling, and technical optimization.
• Provide on-the-ground support during construction and commissioning, ensuring quality and compliance with design intent.
• Coordinate with external contractors, advisors, and suppliers to ensure project milestones are achieved on time and within budget.
• Drive technical evaluations and due diligence processes, including feasibility assessments and risk analysis.
• Contribute to procurement activities by preparing technical specifications, reviewing bids, and advising on contract terms.
• Develop internal engineering standards, tools, and procedures to support continuous improvement.
• Assist in resolving technical issues during operations, including troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

Candidate Profile

• Degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Mechatronics Engineering.
• 8+ years of professional experience, with a strong track record in utility-scale solar PV projects.
• Familiarity with complementary technologies such as battery storage, wind, or high-voltage grid infrastructure would be an advantage.
• Strong technical skills in PV system modelling and design software (PVSyst, AutoCAD, etc.).
• Proficiency in MS Office tools, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experienced in navigating relevant codes, standards, and permitting requirements in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Confident in managing multiple large projects at once, balancing time, cost, and quality pressures.
• Skilled communicator who can build strong relationships with contractors, consultants, and internal teams.

Additional Information

• The role is office-based with occasional travel to project sites.
• Competitive compensation package available for the right candidate.