About the position
This role is Fully remote
Our vision is to deliver delightful experiences for merchants and users, and be the payments partner of choice on the African continent. In everything we do, we strive to make it as easy as possible for merchants to focus on their business, while we take care of their payment needs. We work with the biggest enterprise businesses and the side-hustle next door, across every sector of the economy. We pride ourselves on delivering a world-class payments service with a seamless and secure checkout, enterprise-grade security and personalised multi-channel support to every business we partner with. We integrate easily with leading e-commerce platforms.
Why we're hiring for this role:
The Software Engineer will work collaboratively with the Merchant Journey team to drive development of merchant onboarding and dashboard.
How you'll be making a difference:
- Work alongside the team and be a part of the full software development life cycle.
- Building features for our 4 user groups, Merchants, Customers, Developers and Internal operation teams.
- Working on business projects, internal tech projects, changes to various systems and navigating unplanned work.
- Work alongside the team to create quality code through peer reviews, maintaining internal and external documentation and identifying and addressing technical debt.
- Help the team build up healthy development habits like TDD, Refactoring, being Agile, finding the right tool/technology for the job.
We're looking for someone who has:
- Someone with at least 6 years' experience programming in Javascript / Python
- Familiarity with AWS, SQL (MySQL / Postgres), React, TypeScript
- Strong experience with best practices and a sound understanding of what makes valuable codebases.
- The ability to work collaboratively in an ever-changing remote friendly environment.
- A valid work authorisation to work in South AfricaTech stack:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript.
- Backend: Python, NodeJS
- Data: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
- Infra: AWS Lambda's, Serverless, S3, EC2, API Gateway
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman.
- Automation: Gitlab pipelines, CI/CD, Terraform.
Nice to haves:
- BSc Computer Science, technical tertiary qualification or significant work experience.
- Experience with AWS infrastructure, specifically AWS Lambda's
Desired Skills:
