Lead Developer

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Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
The Lead Developer will provide technical leadership for a global web platform, focusing on web architecture, standards, and mentoring developers. Responsibilities include overseeing development on CMS platforms, collaborating with DevOps, and ensuring quality across web properties.
Summary Generated by Built In

TransPerfect Is More Than Just a Job…
Our greatest asset is our people, and nothing is more important to us than ensuring that everyone knows that. Each of our 100+ offices has its own individual identity, and each also has its own unique rewards.

We are looking for a Lead Developer to provide technical leadership across a multi-site, global web platform. This role owns architecture, technical standards, and development best practices, while working closely with distributed teams and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership:

  • Define and own web architecture and technical standards

  • Guide development across legacy CMS platforms and modern frameworks

  • Review code and mentor senior, mid-level, and junior developers

  • Make decisions on tooling, frameworks, and best practices

Collaboration & Delivery:

  • Partner with DevOps on CI/CD, environments, and reliability

  • Support planning, estimation, and technical risk assessment

  • Act as escalation point for complex technical issues

  • Ensure consistency and quality across all web properties

Job requirements
Qualifications:
  • 8+ years of professional web development experience
  • Strong experience with React and/or Vue.js

  • Solid background with Drupal and WordPress

  • Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers

  • Strong communication, decision-making, and ownership mindset

Nice to have:

  • Experience designing shared platforms or design systems

  • Exposure to DevOps practices and cloud infrastructure

  • Experience working in enterprise or multi-brand environments

Skills Required

  • 8+ years of professional web development experience
  • Strong experience with React and/or Vue.js
  • Solid background with Drupal and WordPress
  • Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers
  • Strong communication, decision-making, and ownership mindset

TransPerfect Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TransPerfect and has not been reviewed or approved by TransPerfect.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Leave offerings can feel workable in certain roles, with PTO and occasional floating-holiday style time off described as available. Flexible scheduling and remote arrangements (notably in interpreting/contact-center work) add practical day-to-day benefit value for some.
  • Healthcare Strength Core health coverage is presented as available, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options alongside life and disability coverage. Plan choice (including FSA/HSA-style options) suggests baseline protection benefits exist even if overall sentiment is mixed.

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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
11,565 Employees
Year Founded: 1992

What We Do

The world's best businesses know that potential customers can be anywhere. TransPerfect helps our clients to be everywhere. With global headquarters in New York and offices in 140+ cities across six continents, TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language services and related technologies. The TransPerfect family of companies enables organizations to speak the language of global business through: - Translation and Language Services - Website and Software Localization - Globalization Management Technology - Multicultural Marketing - Legal Support and E-Discovery - E-Learning Platform Internationalization - Multimedia and Studio Solutions - Interpretation and Call Center Support

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