Full stack engineer
Position: Full-Time, Permanent
Experience Level: Senior (Graduated pre-2020)
Company: Flyp () About Flyp
At Flyp , we are revolutionizing the UK residential real estate market. The traditional process of buying and selling homes is slow, manual, and inefficient. We use proprietary technology, data-driven algorithms, smart staging, and multi-agency routing to transform properties, maximize value, and execute faster sales for homeowners.
We are expanding our core technical team in Cape Town . This role is a hands-on, hybrid position designed for a seasoned engineer who excels at building next-generation product features while maintaining high availability, health, and performance across our existing digital ecosystem. Key Responsibilities 1. Ecosystem Operations & System Support (~40-50%) System Health & Maintenance: Take active ownership of the operational health, uptime, and stability of Flyp’s existing production environment and core ecosystem. Incident Management: Serve as a key responder for critical system failures, data synchronization issues, and service outages, driving rapid root-cause analysis (RCA) and long-term resolution. Monitoring & Alerting: Instrument proactive monitoring, logging, and performance metrics across APIs, database instances, and background job queues to catch failures before they impact users. Technical Debt & Refactoring: Identify operational bottlenecks, optimize legacy code, improve deployment pipelines (CI/CD), and ensure core dependencies remain secure and up to date. Full-Stack Engineering: Design, build, and deploy new end-to-end features using Type Script, React, Node.js, and Postgre SQL. Prop Tech AI Integration: Implement Agentic AI systems , automated property valuation tools, and LLM-driven workflows (Open AI, Anthropic) to streamline multi-agency orchestration and lead management. Database & Cloud Management: Optimize schemas, manage migrations, and tune complex queries on Postgre SQL while scaling microservices across Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent cloud providers. Requirements & Qualifications Education: Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science or a closely related quantitative field. Seniority Threshold: Graduated pre-2020 with 6+ years of post-qualification commercial software engineering experience. Operational Expertise: Proven experience supporting and maintaining production environments, debugging live applications, and managing operational SLAs. Frontend Mastery: Deep expertise in modern Type Script and React (hooks, state architecture, and web performance optimization). Backend & Database: Core proficiency in Node.js/Type Script REST/Graph QL APIs and advanced Postgre SQL management (indexing, migrations, execution plan optimization). Cloud & Dev Ops: Strong experience with GCP (or AWS/Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), serverless architectures, and CI/CD automation. Applied AI & Automation: Exposure to Generative AI , LLM API integrations, vector stores (pgvector/Pinecone), and Agentic frameworks . Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to Cape Town for a fully in-office role . Nice-to-Haves Experience in Prop Tech, Real Estate, Fin Tech, or high-throughput marketplace ecosystems. Hands-on experience with monitoring tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, Grafana). What We Offer Competitive Compensation: Highly competitive ZAR salary reflecting senior-level expertise and operational responsibility. In-Person Collaboration: A dynamic, fast-paced work environment in our Cape Town office. End-to-End Ownership: Direct impact on both high-level system architecture and daily production stability in the UK property market. #J-18808-Ljbffr