Senior Software Engineer

1 week ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Impact Full time R1 500 000 - R2 500 000 per year
About

is the world's leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products-Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)-unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.
Your Role at

We're a team in a fast-growing SaaS scale-up on a mission to make self-service Products, Plans, Subscriptions, and Billing seamless - for clients as well as our sales and account management departments. This is the heart of our business: enabling customers to purchase and upgrade plans independently, while ensuring billing is fully automated, accurate, and scalable.

This is a high-impact role. The systems you design and build will directly power our revenue growth, unlock new business models, and shape the backbone of how we operate.

This is not a "business as usual" engineering role. We're delivering functionality that changes the core of the business, while replacing a legacy monolith with a modern modular monolith - or individual services where it makes sense. While doing this, we strive towards applying best-of-breed technologies and leading-edge methodologies.

We're looking for someone who wants to challenge the status quo. Someone who has a strong interest in the latest technologies and engineering practices, and thrives in an environment where curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement are part of daily life.

What You'll Do:
  • Take ownership of large, complex problems and design simple, elegant solutions.
  • Work with stakeholders across product management, sales, and operations to deeply understand business needs - then deliver technology that meets them.
  • Shape our architectural journey: from legacy monolith to modular monolith and event-driven systems, always with pragmatism and best practice.
  • Champion domain-driven design (strategic & tactical), hexagonal architecture, test-driven development, and clean code.
  • Mentor and guide less experienced engineers, helping the team level up.
  • Continuously improve how we work, experimenting with new ideas and raising the bar.
What You Bring:
  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years' experience in software development
  • Deep foundations in computer science and software engineering (algorithms and data structures, distributed computing, large system design, agile approaches etc.).
  • Strong grasp of domain-driven design (strategic & tactical).
  • Experience with hexagonal / ports-and-adapters architecture.
  • Solid experience with object-oriented and functional programming.
  • Passion for simple, clean and readable code.
  • Understanding of, and appreciation for, test-driven development.
  • Experience designing or working with event-driven architectures.
  • A solid understanding of agile and iterative development approaches.
  • Grasp of team organisation and dynamics (Conway's Law, Team Topologies etc.).
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly.
  • A natural mentor who enjoys helping others grow.
  • A true team player - you enjoy close collaboration, value collective code ownership, and believe the best solutions come from working openly with colleagues across disciplines.
  • Above all: someone who actively seeks out better ways of building, delivering, and operating software, and isn't satisfied with "the way things have always been done."
Our stack:
  • Backend: Java / Spring
  • Persistence: MySQL
  • Frontend: (though deep frontend expertise is not required)
  • Architecture: Modular Monolith (evolving from legacy monolith), Hexagonal Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Event-Driven Systems
Our methodologies:

We strive for continuous improvement and use proven engineering practices:
  • Domain-Driven Design (strategic & tactical)
  • Trunk-Based Development & Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery and frequent production deployments
  • Agile development
  • Test-Driven Development - when and where it makes sense
  • Clean code and knowledge sharing
Benefits:
  • Hybrid, Casual work environment
  • Unlimited PTO policy
    • Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
  • Training & Development
    • Learning the advanced partnership automation products
  • Medical Aid and Provident Fund
    • Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
    • Group scheme with 10x for provident fund
  • Restricted Stock Units
    • 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
  • Internet Allowance
  • Fitness club fee reimbursements
  • Technology Stipened
  • Primary Caregiver Leave
  • Mental Health and Wellness Benefit - Including 12 Therapy/Coaching sessions + Dependent coverage
is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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