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Platform Tech Lead
Yellow Card
Posted 2 months agoRemote (Africa)
Location
Remote (Africa)
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Deadline
July 31, 2026
Category
Technology
Job Description
Yellow Card is Africa's largest and first licensed stablecoin on/off-ramp platform, operating in 20 African countries. The company is on a mission to build financial infrastructure for seamless cross-border commerce and financial inclusion across Africa and emerging markets. As Platform Tech Lead, you will serve as the technical anchor for the Platform Engineering team, leading critical production implementations and owning the technical roadmap to ensure 99.99% service availability.
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Requirements
- Proven deep experience managing and securing Kubernetes (EKS) at scale
- Strong grasp of complex networking concepts for global multi-region deployments
- Solid understanding of performance monitoring tools and Linux operating systems
- Ability to adapt technical strategy in fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
- Experience with global traffic routing, VPNs, and certificate rotation for mTLS
- Strong background in platform/infrastructure engineering with high-availability systems
Responsibilities
- Act as final technical reviewer for complex setups including global traffic routing and EKS scaling
- Architect robust solutions to ensure strict adherence to 99.99% System Uptime OKR
- Identify root causes for critical production incidents and lead post-mortems
- Drive technical strategy and evolve the platform to meet high-stakes global B2B demands
- Manage and secure Kubernetes (EKS) at scale
- Design and implement advanced networking for global multi-region deployments and secure B2B integrations
- Mentor engineers and proactively identify team upskilling opportunities
