Full-Stack Engineer (React / Typescript, Growing Into.Net)
Summary
Front-end-heavy full-stack engineer maintaining three live React/TypeScript apps, building a new PWA owner portal for low-end Android phones, running data pipelines (SQL Server, Postgres) and edge services (Cloudflare Workers, Supabase), while growing into the .NET API alongside a senior engineer at a South African retail-media platform.
Full-Stack Engineer (React / TypeScript, growing into .NET)
Rosebank, Johannesburg · Hybrid after onboarding · Permanent
Build the apps real people use on real phones, and grow into the backend.
Our client runs a live retail-media and connectivity platform used every day by consumers and small-business owners across South Africa's informal-trade market, with leading consumer brands buying media and insights on top of the data. Product development is moving in-house and this is one of the first two engineering hires.
What you'll own
- Three live React apps: a consumer-facing portal, an admin and campaign portal, and a client reporting app
- A new owner portal built as a PWA for low-end Android phones and patchy connectivity
- The data pipelines behind the product (event data, SQL Server, Postgres)
- Smaller edge services (Cloudflare Workers, Supabase apps)
- Growing into the .NET API alongside a senior engineer
What you'll bring
- A very strong front end: React and TypeScript in production
- Backend experience in Node/JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Java or Kotlin, with a production ORM and cloud deployment, and a willingness to learn .NET. .NET experience is a strong plus
- Comfort with SQL and scripting for data work (Python or TypeScript)
- A full-stack mindset, self-direction and curiosity about the product and its users
Nice to have:
PWA or offline-first work, ClickHouse / BigQuery / Snowflake, event-driven patterns, daily use of AI coding tools.
Why this role
- Real breadth: frontends, data and edge services on a live product
- A planned growth path into .NET with a senior engineer alongside youModern stack: React, Vite, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, ClickHouse
Work model:
office-based in Rosebank for the first three months while you learn the platform and the team, then hybrid: three days in the office, two from home.
Package:
market-related, depending on experience.