Acquisition Engineering Team Lead

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Acquisition Engineering Team Lead based in South Africa.

This role combines hands-on frontend engineering with strong technical leadership to shape how users discover, engage with, and convert across global web experiences. You will lead a team responsible for building and evolving acquisition surfaces such as marketing websites, landing pages, and conversion funnels.
The scope is highly cross-functional, involving close collaboration with Marketing, Design, Product, Compliance, and Legal to deliver scalable, high-performing, and regionally adapted web experiences.
You will play a key role in defining how content is created, managed, localized, and optimized for conversion across multiple markets.
The environment is fast-moving and product-driven, with a strong emphasis on experimentation, data-informed decision-making, and continuous optimization.
This position offers the opportunity to directly impact user growth and acquisition efficiency at a global scale while shaping the technical direction of the web platform.
You will also mentor engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across a distributed, high-performing team.

Accountabilities:

• Manage, mentor, and support a team of engineers, including performance management, coaching, and career development.
• Own the technical direction of acquisition systems, including marketing websites, landing pages, and conversion funnels.
• Drive improvements in conversion performance by enhancing analytics, instrumentation, and funnel observability.
• Design and maintain scalable headless CMS architectures supporting global and region-specific content delivery.
• Build and evolve CMS-driven frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Product, Design, Legal, and Compliance to deliver compliant, localized web experiences.
• Define content models, publishing workflows, and approval processes tailored to multi-region regulatory requirements.
• Improve frontend architecture, performance, accessibility, SEO, and overall user experience across acquisition surfaces.
• Partner with Design to scale and maintain shared design systems across web platforms.
• Collaborate with backend teams on API design for web and CMS integrations when needed.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve tooling, workflows, and content operations across the organization.
• Use data-driven insights to guide product, UX, and engineering decisions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building frontend applications using React and TypeScript.
• Proven experience in engineering leadership, including managing, hiring, and developing software engineers.
• Strong background in owning acquisition surfaces such as marketing sites, funnels, onboarding flows, or growth platforms.
• Experience with analytics, funnel tracking, and data-informed product optimization.
• Hands-on experience with headless CMS platforms and content-heavy, dynamic web applications.
• Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance optimization, accessibility, and SEO best practices.
• Experience building or supporting multi-region and localized web experiences.
• Solid experience collaborating with design teams and implementing scalable design systems.
• Strong API integration experience and understanding of REST-based architectures.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong ownership mindset with a track record of improving delivery processes and team efficiency.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary with equity/stock options
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Flexible work arrangements and remote-friendly culture
• Home office setup allowance for new hires
• Monthly stipend to support work-related needs
• Strong focus on learning, development, and career growth
• Opportunity to lead high-impact acquisition systems at global scale
• Collaborative, international, and distributed engineering environment

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Acquisition Engineering Team Lead based in South Africa.

This role combines hands-on frontend engineering with strong technical leadership to shape how users discover, engage with, and convert across global web experiences. You will lead a team responsible for building and evolving acquisition surfaces such as marketing websites, landing pages, and conversion funnels.
The scope is highly cross-functional, involving close collaboration with Marketing, Design, Product, Compliance, and Legal to deliver scalable, high-performing, and regionally adapted web experiences.
You will play a key role in defining how content is created, managed, localized, and optimized for conversion across multiple markets.
The environment is fast-moving and product-driven, with a strong emphasis on experimentation, data-informed decision-making, and continuous optimization.
This position offers the opportunity to directly impact user growth and acquisition efficiency at a global scale while shaping the technical direction of the web platform.
You will also mentor engineers and elevate frontend engineering standards across a distributed, high-performing team.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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