Tech Lead/Full Stack Engineer

About the position

The Software Engineer/Tech Lead 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 Africa

Tech 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:

• python
• Javascript
• tech lead