Senior Full Stack Engineer, South Africa

About the role

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that exposes our data and functionality to internal and external users.

Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable.

You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.

• What we expect of you:

  • Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

  • Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.

  • Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.

  • System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.

  • Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.

  • System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.

  What you are good at:

  • You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language

  • Working on large, distributed systems at scale

  • Understanding and working with SQL databases

  • Writing solid unit testing and integration tests

  • You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment

  • Taking ownership of work assigned to you

  • You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

  Technology stack:

  Our technology stack includes the following:

  • Typescript and Javascript

  • Node.js

  • Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js and Nest.js

  • Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue

  • Redis

  • MySQL and MongoDB

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • AWS