Job Description

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
Role Overview
As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that expose our client's 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.
Job Type: Full Time/Permanent
Location: South Africa
Workplace: Hybrid
Requirements

• 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
• Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue
• Redis
• MySQL and MongoDB
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills Required