# Lead Software Developer

The Role If you’ve spent years writing code and are ready to start shaping how a whole team writes it, this one’s worth a proper look. You’ll be the technical anchor for a cross-functional development squad, building full stack web and API solutions from the database up to the UI. This isn’t a role where you trade your keyboard for a whiteboard. You’ll still be deep in the code, reviewing pull requests, unblocking your team and making the calls on architecture that the business will live with for years. Think player-coach, not manager watching from the sidelines. You’ll be joining a business that operates in a regulated, high-availability environment, where the software genuinely has to hold up under pressure. It’s a place for someone who takes pride in doing things properly, not just quickly. Core tech: .NET/C#, Node.js or Java on the back end. Angular, React, Next.js, Vue or Svelte on the front end. TypeScript, modern JavaScript, Azure and/or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines. Bonus points for hands-on experience building AI-powered features (RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering) and using tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or Cursor in your day to day. What Yo

- **Id**: 4068411
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/datatech-recruitment-lead-software-developer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T11:52:44Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:52:44Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3081
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4533131
- **Name**: DataTech Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/datatech-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Svelte** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Vue.js** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Claude Code** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Embeddings** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:26:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:0, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T14:15:35Z

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