Front End Development Team Lead (React & React Native), Pretoria

Frontend Development Team Lead: React & React Native for Mobile

(Permanent: Menlyn Maine, Pretoria)

About the Role

Lead and mentor a front‑end development team while delivering high‑quality, scalable UI solutions for our client's Banking‑as‑a‑Service platform. The role blends strong technical expertise in modern front‑end technologies with proven leadership and people‑management skills.

What Were Looking For:

Leadership

• Mentor, coach and support front‑end developers, managing timelines, removing blockers and fostering a collaborative, growth‑oriented environment.
• Drive the integration of the front‑end team into multi‑technology projects across product, design and back‑end groups.
• Provide technical direction, conduct code reviews and ensure best‑practice standards are followed.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning, accountability and high performance.
• Communicate progress, risks and decisions to Scrum Masters and Senior leadership.
• Demonstrate strong administrative, analytical and communication skills; manage stress and time effectively; make decisive, problem‑solving decisions.
• Uphold the company's core values of integrity, tenacity, learning, enabling and agility.

Technical Skills and Delivery

• Technical skills:
• • Core Front‑End: React, React Native, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript.
  • Beneficial Add‑Ons: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, React Query, MSSQL, Azure exposure, DevOps CI/CD pipelines, RESTful services.
• Technical delivery responsibilities will include:
• • Design, develop and maintain robust, testable, and maintainable front‑end applications for Web and Mobile (Android/ iOS)
  • Participate in the full software lifecycle: requirements analysis, architecture, implementation, testing, documentation, and production deployment.
  • Document business rules, technical decisions and codebase details.
  • Research, propose and implement improvements to existing systems; diagnose and resolve UI defects.
  • Collaborate with back‑end Developers, DevOps and QA teams to ensure seamless CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments (Azure exposure), Mobile store deployments and observability.

Cloud, Containerization and Observability

• Experienced in on premises deployments of developments (Beneficial)
• Cloud deployments such Azure (Beneficial)
• Deployment on Kubernetes and containerization (Beneficial),
• Deployment of development that is Observable and System Monitored (Beneficial).

Security and Performance

• Apply web‑ and cloud‑security best practices, including OWASP guidelines, to protect both front‑end and back‑end components. Ensure that code and deployments follow secure‑by‑design principles and that any identified vulnerabilities are promptly mitigated or resolved.
• Optimize web and mobile application performance.

Qualifications and experience:

• IT Diploma or Degree in Computer Science or relevant qualification.
• 5 years (minimum) Relevant experience in required development technologies.
• 1+ years relevant experience in leading development teams (Beneficial).

Personal Attributes:

• Strong leadership, administrative, analytical, and communication skills.
• Good stress and time management.
• Target-oriented, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Attention to detail, focus and dedication
• Integrity, responsible and accountable