Senior full stack engineer (fintech/payments)
Summary
Senior full-stack engineer building scalable payments infrastructure for African businesses using TypeScript, Node.js, React, and cloud-native tools.
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 OverviewAs 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 DetailsJob 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 8 years of experience as a full stack engineer. 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 Typescript and Javascript Node.js Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js and Nest.js Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue Redis My SQL and Mongo DB 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.