Fullstack Engineer

Our client, The Landbanking Group (TLG), is building Landler — a global platform that makes nature measurable and investable. It turns biodiversity, carbon, soil, and water into decision-grade data that landowners, companies, and investors can use to track risks, model interventions like regenerative farming, and create nature-based assets.

They are now seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer to help build the technology behind this platform. In this role, you'll develop APIs, integrations, and user-facing tools that make complex environmental science actionable — directly enabling better decisions for land use, investment, and ecosystem regeneration worldwide.

TLG is a dynamic scaleup with its headquarters in Munich, an office is Cape Town, and operations around the world. It has raised over $16m in the past 2 years.

If you'd like to learn more about TLG, watch their concept video here.

What You Will Be Doing

• Build the platform: Develop functionality across the stack — React + TypeScript on the frontend, Django on the backend.
• APIs & integrations: Write APIs that power the frontend and integrate with calculation engines that process large datasets and long-running computations.
• Handle scale with confidence: Work comfortably with large databases (millions of rows), ensuring speed, reliability, and scalability.
• Startup agility: Collaborate in an agile, fast-changing environment, breaking down work, estimating complexity, and iterating quickly on new ideas.
• Proactive problem-solving: Spot opportunities, propose solutions, and drive features forward — not waiting for perfect specs but helping shape them.
• Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues across engineering, science, and product to turn complex environmental data into user-friendly tools.
• Reliability: Contribute to decisions on availability, scalability, performance, and usability; troubleshoot incidents across the stack when needed.

• 5+ years of practical experience as a Software Engineer, with a proven track record of shipping large web applications and scale software or web applications
• Advanced knowledge of React, Django and Python. JavaScript, TypeScript and Django REST Framework are a plus
• Experience with concepts such as CI/CD, containers (Docker), and related tools for both frontend and backend development
• Experience in SaaS or platform development, ideally in an early-stage startup
• Comfortable working with large-scale databases and building scalable applications
• Proficiency in agile methodologies like Scrum or Kanban
• Ability to work across the stack: from frontend graphs and interfaces to backend integrations and automated business processes.
• Strong communication skills in English
• Above all: a sharp, creative problem-solver who can think on their feet, adapt to change, and bring proactive ideas in a dynamic environment.

• TLG culture strongly focuses on enabling and empowering team members so they can develop and grow in a positive environment.
• Hybrid for candidates based in Cape Town, South Africa days in office) Remote for candidates based outside of Cape Town, South Africa.
• We offer more than a job : Fast growth and the possibility to shape the future of The Landbanking Group
• Peer recognition
• Clear career growth
• Flexibility and Autonomy