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Platform Tech Lead
Yellow Card
Posted 5 months agoRemote (Africa)
Location
Remote (Africa)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Engineering
Job Description
Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed on/off-ramp platform for stablecoins in Africa, operating in 20 African countries. As Platform Tech Lead, you will serve as the technical anchor for the Platform Engineering team, leading critical production implementations and taking full ownership of the technical roadmap to ensure 99.99% availability for institutional partners and global financial networks. This is a fully remote role.
Act as the final technical reviewer for complex setups including global traffic routing, EKS scaling, and networking implementations (VPNs, certificate rotation for mTLS)
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Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on technical experience with large-scale production environments and infrastructure
- 2+ years of experience leading site reliability engineers or software developers
- In-depth knowledge of AWS architecture (Serverless, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EKS, and S3)
- Strong grasp of Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD principles (GitHub Actions)
- Proven ability to learn and master new technologies including AI-driven infrastructure and emerging FinTech protocols
- Solid understanding of performance monitoring tools and Linux operating systems
- Strong grasp of complex networking concepts for global multi-region deployments and secure B2B integrations
Responsibilities
- Architect robust solutions to ensure strict adherence to 99.99% System Uptime OKR
- Identify underlying root causes for critical production incidents and provide permanent fixes
- Lead service capacity planning, demand forecasting, and system tuning for scalability
- Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical systems to ensure SLAs are met
- Partner with SecOps to ensure global infrastructure meets rigorous security standards
- Align technical priorities with business goals and provide accurate status updates to senior leaders
