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60 Degrees Recruitment

Senior Software Engineer at 60 Degrees

60 Degrees Recruitment

  • R83,300 - R100,000 per month
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Cape Town CBD (Work From Home)
  • Posted 03 Oct 2025 by 60 Degrees Recruitment
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2623812
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About the position

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU:

We've partnered with global payments house and fintech and is currently scaling across their product engineering team; the current need is for a seasoned Full Stack Engineer to build customer-facing payment experiences across Africa.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves solving complex problems, and wants to work on systems that process millions of transactions.

Tech Stack

  • Languages: Python and TypeScript
  • Infrastructure: AWS (primarily Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Serverless)
  • Databases: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress
  • CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines
  • Monitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Successfully build new features, and enhance existing Commerce features
  • Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full Commerce product portfolio
  • Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backend
  • Effective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issues
  • Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis

OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE:

Technical Expertise:

  • 7+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
  • Strong experience with Python and Typescript
  • AWS experience (primarily Lambda, API Gateway and Serverless)
  • Database experience (MySQL, MongoDB)
  • Bonus - Experience with Payments

Problem-Solving & Ownership:

  • Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new features
  • Able to iteratively maintain and evolve existing features to meet best practices and modern standards
  • Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment

Collaboration & Communication:

  • Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners

YOUR REWARD:

  • Salary range: [URL Removed] CTC p.a. + perks
  • Working Model: Remote

For more roles, please have a look at our website (www.60degrees.com). or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/10287263/)

Desired Skills:

  • Python
  • typescript
  • aws
  • Mongodb
  • MySQL
  • Postgressql
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Postman
  • CI/CD

Desired Work Experience:

  • 5 to 10 years

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:

This cutting-edge fintech company is shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. It empowers businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

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60 Degrees Recruitment

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60 Degrees is recruitment done effectively and simply. We are a team of experts who have worked both agency and client side. We understand that in a crowded market place, knowledgeable and personable consultants will make the difference to our clients and candidates.

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