Senior Full-Stack Developer (Node.js / TypeScript)
Summary
Senior Full-Stack Developer at a consumer digital business, owning features end-to-end: building and scaling Node.js/TypeScript backend services and REST/event-driven APIs, developing React front-ends, handling deployment/monitoring, and mentoring engineers. On-site in Cape Town or Johannesburg with flexitime.
We’re working with an established consumer digital business, and they’re looking for a Senior Full-Stack Developer to build and scale modern web applications across backend services, APIs and front-end interfaces, and to help set the technical direction.
You’ll own complex features end-to-end — from architecture and development through deployment, monitoring and production reliability — and mentor the engineers around you.
What you’ll do
- Design and scale backend services in Node.js and TypeScript, building REST and event-driven APIs
- Work within a modular, domain-driven architecture and lead integration with third-party and internal systems
- Develop polished, user-facing features in React (Next.js a plus)
- Own features across development, testing, deployment and monitoring, and drive production reliability
- Debug complex production issues using logs and observability tooling
- Contribute to architecture decisions and mentor intermediate and junior engineers
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years’ software development experience
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js, with deep REST / event-driven API experience
- Frameworks such as Fastify, Express or NestJS, and solid async and API design
- React, with strong HTML, CSS and component-based UI fundamentals
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) and sound data modelling
- Solid cloud experience (AWS, GCP or Azure), CI/CD and containerisation (Docker)
- Testing with Jest or Vitest, and strong Git practices
Advantageous
- Event-driven or real-time systems, observability tooling, and high-scale, high-traffic environments
Working model
In office with flexitime, based in Cape Town or Johannesburg.
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