The Full-Stack Tech Lead provides technical leadership and hands-on engineering expertise across our web, mobile, and backend platforms. Reporting to the Engineering Director, this role owns the end-to-end technical direction, drives architectural decisions, sets engineering standards, and mentors a team of developers.
The Tech
Lead works closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to shape scope, plan releases, and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery. This is a onsite role based in Ghana (Accra preferred), with occasional in-person collaboration.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the end-to-end technical direction across web, mobile, and backend platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Drive pragmatic architectural decisions around modular monolith vs. microservices, including defining service boundaries, integration patterns, and consistency tradeoffs.
- Apply Domain-Driven Design (DDD) to create clear domain boundaries, bounded contexts,aggregates, and domain events.
- Set and enforce high standards for code quality, testing, API contracts, and documentation across the engineering team.
- Partner closely with Product Owners and Project Managers to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, break epics into deliverable slices, and estimate work realistically.
- Plan sprints and releases, manage dependencies and risks, and balance product speed with technical sustainability (tech debt, refactors, platform work).
- Lead and mentor engineers through pair programming, design reviews, code reviews, and coaching.
- Build a strong engineering culture centred on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Support hiring and onboarding processes as the team grows.
- Lead development of high-quality user experiences on web (React/Next.js) and mobile (React Native), guiding choices around state management, performance, and component architecture.
- Ensure UI quality standards including responsive design, accessibility (web), and polished mobile UX (navigation, device differences).
- Own backend design and implementation in .NET Core, including API design, security fundamentals, and resilient patterns (retries/timeouts, idempotency, background processing).
- Drive database design and performance optimisation, including schema design, migrations,indexing, and query tuning.
- Establish observability foundations to monitor system health and performance.
- Provide engineering input into prioritisation, timelines, and technical tradeoffs during product planning.
What You’ll Bring:
- Strong full-stack experience shipping production products across frontend, backend, and mobile platforms.
- Prior experience as a senior engineer or tech lead with clear ownership of delivery and a proven track record of mentorship.
- Strong system design skills with the ability to clearly articulate architectural tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated architectural competence in:
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD) — practical application in real-world projects
- Modular monolith design — clear boundaries and dependency discipline
- Microservices understanding — when and how to split, data ownership, and failure modes
- Solid database fundamentals, including relational DB design, migrations, and performance tuning.
- Strong collaboration skills with experience working effectively with Product Owners and Project Managers.
- Proficiency in modern engineering tools and practices, including version control, CI/CD, and testing frameworks.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; a master's degree is a plus.
- Fluency in English; proficiency in local Ghanaian languages is an advantage but not required.
Who You Are:
- A hands-on, pragmatic engineering leader who enjoys diving into code while guiding the bigger technical picture.
- Commercially minded, with the ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes and product goals.
- Analytical and detail-oriented, yet able to see the big picture and set strategic technical priorities.
- An excellent communicator and motivator who can engage and inspire engineers across different experience levels.
- Highly organised, resilient, and comfortable managing competing demands in a fast-growing, high-performance environment.
- Integrity-driven and committed to maintaining the highest standards of engineering excellence, quality, and accountability.
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