Full-stack Engineering Lead (.net, React)

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:

1. Domain-Driven Design (DDD) — practical application in real-world projects

1. Modular monolith design — clear boundaries and dependency discipline

1. 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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