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Senior Application Engineer (Python Django FastAPI)

EQPlus

  • Undisclosed
  • Contract Senior position
  • Cape Town Region
  • Posted 08 May 2026 by EQPlus
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2638516
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About the position

Join a high-performing technology environment where modern engineering practices, cloud innovation, and impactful delivery come together in a highly collaborative team.

Role Overview
If you enjoy proper backend engineering, this is the kind of role where you'll probably [Email Address Removed] of Python, Django, and FastAPI, working on APIs, integrations, services, and fixing the kinds of problems that actually make engineering interesting. The team cares about writing clean code, building things properly, and making sensible technical decisions instead of overengineering everything for the sake of it.

You'll be around people who like solving problems, talking through ideas, improving how things work, and getting solid code into production without endless red tape. There's a mix of backend work, cloud stuff, architecture input, performance tuning, debugging weird issues, and continuously improving the platform as things scale.

The Stack

  • Building and improving backend services, APIs, and integrations
  • Working across Python, Django, FastAPI, and modern application frameworks
  • Contributing to architecture discussions and technical decisions
  • Improving application performance, reliability, and maintainability
  • Working with cloud-based environments, microservices, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Helping improve deployments, monitoring, and overall platform stability
  • Collaborating with other engineers on clean code, standards, and best practices
  • Mentoring junior developers and contributing to a strong engineering culture
  • Getting involved in proof of concepts, new ideas, and improving how things are done

You'll Fit In If...

  • You've got a relevant IT qualification (Degree or Diploma) or equivalent hands-on experience that's given you a solid engineering foundation
  • You've spent 10+ years building software in object-oriented environments
  • You've got 8+ years of solid Python experience
  • You've worked properly with Django and FastAPI in production environments
  • APIs, integrations, and backend services are familiar territory
  • You understand SQL properly and know your way around database optimisation
  • Git, CI/CD, and modern development workflows are part of your normal process
  • You've worked with cloud platforms, microservices, or containerised environments
  • You care about writing clean, maintainable code and enjoy solving real engineering problems
  • You're happy collaborating with other engineers, sharing ideas, and helping less experienced devs grow

Experience in financial services or regulated enterprise environments would be useful, but it's not the main thing they care about.

Desired Skills:

  • Python Development
  • Django
  • FastAPI
  • Backend Engineering
  • API Integration
  • AWS Cloud
  • Microservices
  • CI/CD
  • SQL Development
  • Cloud Engineering

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

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EQPlus

About the agency

EQPlus is a Specialist IT & Financial Recruitment Consultancy with a team of highly experienced staff and shareholders, representative of South Africa's unique diversity. EQPlus is a Specialist Resourcing Services organization, specialising in the provision of contracting staff, permanent staff as well as Executive Search. We do IT your way. EQPlus is a leading provider of IT and Financial talent, on all levels of your business Founded in 1999, the dynamic team at EQPlus focusses on the following business units: EQ Resourcing EQPlus is able to supply top quality technical specialists in all technologies e.g. Mobile Technologies, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, COBOL, Natural – all levels. EQ PLUS ensures that the candidate match the client’s skills requirement and the culture of the organisation. EQ Plus provides a personal service of exceptional value. EQ Professional Services EQPlus is highly experienced in the sourcing of Programme and Project Managers for short and long term positions, both local and internationally. Business Analysts/Business Process skills are also available with experience across multiple leading BA methodologies. EQ Staffing Solutions EQ Staffing solutions is designed to meet your needs, be it Teams, Fixed price or Executive search. Our offering includes bespoke application development skills across all the enterprise development platforms and technologies over the full lifecycle of a project. Why EQPLUS We have a track record of excellent service delivery on small and large scale recruitment projects. •Our team of inspirational bright minds enables us to provide business leadership in our field. •We provide Technology Expertise, using state of the art Recruitment Intellectual Property •We consistently provide quality candidates, at great value for money with passionate service delivery. •We serve clients and candidates spanning the technology and geographic landscape of South Africa. •We are a Total Talent Solution Centre of Excellence and have specialists that focus on the IT Industry. •We provide Executive Search appointments, Independent Contractors and Permanent Appointments including: oArchitects, oBusiness Analysts, oProject Managers, oAnalyst Programmers (Java, C#, PHP, Web Logic, SQL, Cobol, Universe, SAP, Oracle etc.) oNetwork Engineers (up to CCIE level). oMicrosoft Technology experts, oJava Application Development experts and oMobile Development experts. oFinancial Industry Professionals.

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