Entelect Software (Pty) Ltd Recruitment 2023/2024

Entelect Team Leads

As one of our Team Leads, you will be involved and invested in the projects you are assigned to. You will still be hands-on, designing and building software on a daily basis alongside your team. This is the perfect role if you are someone who still loves your craft, but also wants exposure to the management and leadership space. You are a commodore that leads by example from the front lines.

Your elevator pitch – what you’ll tell people you do

“I work with the best minds in the industry to solve complex business problems with software. I use my smarts to deliver the best solutions for my clients and my team so that we can deliver solutions with excellence and impact.”

What you’ll actually be doing

• Joining a company with more than 20 years of experience in software craftsmanship; a company known for hiring, continuously growing, and retaining the best people in the industry.
• Working with teams with a common goal: to solve complex business problems, to drive excellence, and to make an impact, while pushing yourself and others to become more.
• Using your knowledge and experience to develop world-class, high-quality web and mobile applications for some of the country’s leading organizations.
• You will be creating environments that will ensure that everyone on your team is mentored, coached and able to grow.
• Guiding your project, implementing processes and rolling out tooling whilst ensuring successful high-quality delivery of your project that adds value to your client’s business.
• You are trusted with the responsibility of managing your client’s expectations and building key relationships.

How you’ll do this

• By utilising your arsenal of soft skills and technical prowess.
• By leading, mentoring and navigating your crew through the many obstacles on your path to successful delivery.
• By understanding how the business and the technology can combine to add true value to your customer and project.
• By pushing the limits, asking questions and challenging preconceived notions of what’s possible. Because, at Entelect, we believe everything is possible.
• By being agile and planning properly, but being open and able to accommodate change when necessary. So you prioritise, you adjust and you get things done.
• By having access to everything you need to become the best at what you do: the facilities, resources and autonomy you need to become more.

What we’ve worked on lately

At Entelect, we’re working on more than 80 projects at any given time. Here are some to whet your appetite:

• Building loyalty platforms designed to drive consumer behaviour and help improve the health and wellness of South Africans.
• Designing and developing high-performance web applications that enable multinational organisations to track risks, including fraud and white collar crime, across the globe, in real time.
• Developing software for a surgical skill simulation portal that measures surgical skill proficiency; enabling trainee surgeons to practice, track and measure their skills remotely.
• Imagining, designing, and implementing an Android app for an agricultural company to help agronomists and sales agents share valuable data in real-time; optimizing smart agriculture solutions in an industry that is highly susceptible to minor fluctuations in conditions.
• Helping one of South Africa’s largest vehicle fleet management companies accurately price project costs for hundreds of specialized vehicles, down to the cents per kilometer, to provide more competitive products to consumers.
• Developing reliable processes, visual dashboards, and tracking tools to monitor the delivery of schoolbooks across South Africa.
• Learning and implementing complex tax and duty tracking tools that enable the world’s largest commodity traders to operate in multiple markets.

What your typical day could look like

You arrive at the office and rally your crew for the morning team coffee run, while discussing the social meet-up that’s happening tonight. You make a mental note to let your partner know that you’ll be out for dinner. That’s on us.

This morning’s stand up highlights a problem that a team member is facing. You indentify an opportunity to grow another team member’s critical thinking ability; you ask them to help solve the issue. An hour later you run past to check how the pair programming session is going, they are minutes away from getting to the bottom of the problem. It is great to see the team working together!

You pick up your notes and rush down to the canteen to have a one-on-one with one of your team members. The session turns into a great discussion on how to hold people accountable. You make a note to check up on how a few of your suggestions worked in your next one on one. Awesome!

Before grabbing lunch, you get sidetracked by a debate taking place in another squad regarding the merits of implementing a SAFe methodology. You add your two cents, excited to see the team trying new ways to improve their environment.

You have 20 minutes free before your demo, so you decide to knock off some technical debt. You spend the next hour having a successful demo with the customer. You sit down at your desk, put your headphones on and knock out that new feature you’ve been excited to tackle. With a happy customer and the instant gratification of completing a critical feature, you stop by the bar for a beer with your colleagues and you challenge your team, that if they win tonights LAN, lunch  will be on you tomorrow.

Today was a good day. Tomorrow will be too.