Senior Full Stack Developer - Team Lead
Vista Group · Cape Town, South Africa · Hybrid
Posted Sep 9, 2026
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This is a hands-on Senior Full Stack Developer – Team Lead role, with a 30% BE / 70% FE split. You’ll work alongside, and lead, a talented team providing the best-in-class, custom cinema websites worldwide.
Using your extensive experience with React.js, TypeScript, .Net, CSS/SCSS, REST APIs, you will own features and projects, collaborating with wider stakeholders such as Product Owners, Business Analysts, and Engineering Managers, with a focus on continuous improvement.
Experienced with modern Agile software development, you will advocate team quality and productivity through peer programming, code reviews, and of course your own development, producing a code base that is high quality, maintainable and always maturing.
Alongside your hands-on engineering responsibilities, you’ll also provide people leadership for your team, supporting engineers through regular one-to-ones, feedback, career development, performance conversations, and day-to-day coaching, helping to create a healthy, capable, and highly autonomous team.
About the role
Work heavily with front-end frameworks and libraries, such as React, JavaScript, HTML, Typescript, SCSS/CSS & ES6 Vanilla Javascript
Develop user interfaces and user experiences using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Implement responsive web design to ensure optimal user experience across various devices and screen sizes
Ensure cross-browser compatibility and address performance issues
Build server-side applications using programming languages like Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, or PHP
Develop and integrate APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for seamless communication between front-end and back-end systems
Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure web applications
Optimize server-side performance and troubleshoot issues
Use version control systems like Git to manage and track changes in code
Collaborate with team members on code repositories, resolving conflicts and ensuring code quality
Deliver new and maintain existing features on the Umbraco-backed CMS
Deploy web applications to hosting platforms or servers
Configure and maintain web servers, ensuring optimal performance and security
Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automated testing and deployment
Write and maintain automated tests to ensure code quality
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and other developers
Provide day-to-day people leadership for the team, including regular one-to-ones, coaching, feedback, career development, wellbeing support, and performance management
Build a healthy, inclusive, and accountable team environment that supports high autonomy and effective collaboration
Provide leadership visibility into team health, capacity, capability, and emerging people risks
Join the on-call support roster during holiday periods
Requirements
About you
6+ years' web full stack development experience ideally in a…