Senior Full Stack Engineer – Python

5 days ago

South Africa 60 Degrees Full time R1 000 000 - R2 500 000 per year

Job Description

THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU

We've partnered with global payments house in fintech who 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, PostgreSQLTools: Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, CypressCI/CD & Automation: GitLab PipelinesMonitoring: Grafana / Sentry / Datadog

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Successfully build new features, and enhance existing Commerce featuresDesign, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team across our full Commerce product portfolioEnsure secure, scalable, and compliant payment processing to our backendEffective troubleshooting and debugging of Commerce issuesIndependently 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 engineeringStrong experience with Python and TypescriptAWS 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 featuresAble 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 EnglishComfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners

Working Model: Remote 

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