2 months ago
Johannesburg, South AfricaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own technical strategy for the infrastructure of a key product area or platform.
- Lead technical direction, architectural decisions, and strategic initiatives across feature teams, systems, and multiple engineering teams.
- Define engineering roadmaps, standards, coding practices, architectural patterns, and development procedures.
- Design and implement internal developer platform capabilities, including golden paths, service templates, and self-service features.
- Continue making significant hands-on contributions through coding, system design, infrastructure implementation, architecture reviews, and complex technical problem-solving.
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, maintainability, technical quality, and consistency across teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response as a senior technical leader.
- Mentor engineers, support career development, lead technical reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, design leads, executives, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical strategy and execution plans.
- Create technical documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing through tech talks and training.
- Participate in interviewing new team members and cross-functional team meetings.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of professional experience in platform, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrated expertise architecting and implementing large-scale systems.
- Proven technical leadership and experience influencing multiple teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, and platform practices.
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to balance technical and business priorities.
- Experience defining technical strategy and driving adoption across teams.
- Preferred: master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience leading large technical initiatives across multiple teams and defining technical strategy and roadmaps for complex systems.
- Preferred: multiple advanced certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
- Preferred: background in building engineering culture and best practices, working with product management and executive leadership, or contributing to open-source projects and industry thought leadership.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model combining at-home and in-office work; this role is hybrid in the local Nintex office.
- Global Gratitude and Recharge Days.
- Flexible paid time off policy.
- Employee wellness programs and counseling resources.
- Peer recognition and awards.
- Paid parental leave.
- Invention and patenting assistance.
- Paid volunteer time and community impact opportunities.
- Intercultural learning and celebration.
- Multiple learning and development tools and access to a global community.
About Nintex
Nintex builds a SaaS platform for enterprise process and workflow automation, including orchestration, digital forms, document generation, RPA, and process intelligence. Organizations use it to model, automate, and govern business processes and build low-code apps, with options to incorporate AI agents. The company is privately held, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and owned by TPG; its software is used by thousands of public- and private-sector customers worldwide.